Coast Guard baseball caps Florida trip with 4th straight win
Coast Guard baseball goes 5-1 in Gene Cusic Classic, capped by four straight victories
Fort Myers, Fla. — Sophomore Alex Cordes' two-run single highlighted a four-run sixth inning as the Coast Guard Academy baseball team beat Edgewood College 8-4 Thursday at the Gene Cusic Classic.
The Bears finished their Florida trip with a 5-1 record, winning four straight. It is the program's best start since 2015. They were scheduled to open the northern portion of their schedule at home on Sunday against Castleton, but that game has already been canceled.
Sophomore Jon Pressley continued his hot streak with two hits, including his first career home run, and three RBI while junior Luke Thompson and Cordes each added three hits for the Bears, who had 13 overall.
Pressley hit .619 in Fort Myers, going 13-for-21 with a home run and nine RBI.
In the sixth, junior Will Stephens' RBI infield single gave the Bears a 5-4 lead. Pressley added a sacrifice fly before a two-run single by Cordes pushed the lead to 8-4.
Sophomore Brett Sullivan (2-0) pitched seven innings to pick up the win. He allowed four earned runs, nine hits and walked four while striking out seven. Junior Dustin Reeder pitched two perfect innings and fanned three to close out the game.
Coast Guard got on the board in the second on Dylan Donahue's RBI single in his first career at-bat.
The Eagles tied it in the third before Thompson's two-out RBI single in the fourth scored Cordes, who led the inning off with a single, as Coast Guard took a 2-1 lead.
Pressley blasted a towering tworun homer in the fifth to extend the lead to 4-1. In other college baseball action: • Will Van Horn's two-run, walkoff home run in the ninth inning lifted Community College of Baltimore County-Essex past UConn Avery Point 10-8. The Pointers scored seven runs in the sixth to take an 8-4 lead before Essex rallied. Michael Savino had two hits and two RBI while Mike Chiovitti and Cote Libby added two hits apiece for Avery Point.
H.S. swimming
• Fitch's John Marcolina, a member of the Fitch/Stonington/Ledyard/Norwich Tech cooperative program, will participate in three events during Saturday's State Open championship meet at Yale University in New Haven. The meet begins at 2:30 p.m.
The junior is seeded third in the 50-yard freestyle (21.53 seconds) and 10th in the 100 freestyle (47.93). He will also team with senior Patrick Nowak, junior Joe Vignato and junior Keegan Reck to swim in the 200 freestyle relay as the No. 11 seed (1:31.07). Nowak, from Stonington, will swim in the 100 breaststroke as the No. 19 seed (1:00.60).