NEWPORT, R.I. —

Coast Guard dropped two games this afternoon to fall out of the NEWMAC Championship. Salve Regina defeated the Bears 6-1 and MIT won 8-2 to knock CGA out of the tournament. Salve and MIT will play tomorrow at 11 AM for the NEWMAC title, Salve needs one win to advance to the NCAA Tournament while MIT must beat the Seahawks twice to earn an automatic bid.

In game one the Bears started slow and were never able to recover. They went down 1-2-3 in the 1st before allowing 3 Salve runs to cross in the bottom of the inning. Salve tacked on another in the second on a steal of third and errant throw into left field. After the 1st inning, CGA starter John DiMarsico (Severna Park, MD) was nails, pitching into the 7th inning. The freshman southpaw went 6.1 innings, allowing three earned runs and striking out six. 

Coast Guard got runners on base in both the 2nd and 3rd but were unable to push either across. In the fourth they would strike on a Jack Steel two out RBI single to score Wyatt Duthu who earlier singled. With Steel on first and Connor Cilento (Point Pleasant, NJ) on 2nd the Bears looked poised to load the bases with two outs and extend the rally when Kael Godshalk (Bangor, PA) appeared to hustle out an infield single. Godshalk was instead called out on a controversial call at first base to end the inning.

In the 5th, DiMarsico expertly escaped the jam of a runner on 3rd and two outs by striking out Salves' cleanup hitter looking. In the 6th both squads went down quietly but Salve caught a break to score two more runs in the 7th. Bears reliever Raymond Priddy (Chico, CA) entered the game in turmoil with the bases loaded and just one out with the heart of the Seahawks order up. He promptly struck out the first batter he faced and forced a weakly struck ground ball to the next, a Coast Guard error however allowed two runs to score before they nabbed a runner at third for the final out of the inning. Priddy wound up going 1.2 innings, allowing just one hit and no runs.

Coast Guard got one runner on in the 9th but ultimately went down quietly in the inning. 

In game one, Connor Cilento and Wyatt Duthu each had two hits to lead the team. As a team, Coast Guard had as many hits(9) as Salve Regina but the Bears struck out more(15-7) and made more errors(2-0).

The loss gave the Bears an elimination game date with MIT, who had already won a win or go home game earlier in the day vs Wheaton College.

Like they did two days ago vs MIT, the Bears got down 2-0 early. This time with a two run 2nd inning. Unlike they did Thursday afternoon, Coast Guard could not fight back from the deficit. 

MIT would jump to a 4-0 lead with a Teddy Schoenfeld (Boulder, CO) two run single in the top of the 4th. In the bottom of the inning the Bears got one back on a Wyatt Duthu bomb over the right field fence. Duthu would make the final day of his Coast Guard tenure a banner one, with three hits including the homer.

Both squads went scoreless in the 5th and 6th to head to the 7th still at a score of 4-1 MIT. For the Bears offense, they were not without loud outs. Nathan Stafford (Jupiter, FL) and Rick Barkley (Bellevue, WA) each lined out and Carson Cho (Haymarket, VA) was robbed of a new life on a foul ball when MIT right fielder Teddy Schoenfeld ran into foul ground and made a catch while flipping over a tarp on the side of the field.

Reliever Tyler Michalek (Haslet, TX) came in and shut down the Engineers in the top of the 7th and the offense got one run closer in bottom seven on a Carson Cho RBI single to score Jack Steel.

In the 8th is when the Engineers pulled ahead. They scored three runs to take a commanding 7-2 lead. They tacked on another in the 9th for the 8-2 score that would hold as the final.

In game two of the day for the Bears, Kael Godshalk led the way with two hits. In relief, Jackson Dorsey (Newark, DE) threw two innings of two hit, one run ball while striking out two. Like he did on Thursday vs MIT, Dorsey again flashed his leather on the mound. He entered the game in a bases loaded no out jam and forced a weak roller between himself and first base to the first batter he faced. The sophomore made a sliding play to field the ball and fired it home where catcher Parker Madden gave an outstanding effort to lay out full extension and hold his foot in the plate for the force out. 

The losses conclude the historic 2025 Bears with a final record of 26-14. On the individual level they set single season records in Hits(Carson Cho, 66), Runs(Cho, 46), Doubles(Cho, 17), Home Runs(Rick Barkley, 10) and career records in RBI(Barkley, 97) and Home Runs(Barkley, 26). For the team, their 26 wins are the most in program history and their 10 game winning streak this season is the longest in team history. 

They will lose nine seniors, each of which have contributed mightily to the program in its most successful era in team history: Aidan Andersen (Waukesha, WI), Wyatt Duthu (Madison, AL), Bode Dykens (Lamoni, IA), Blake George (Bethlehem, PA), Grayson Irwin (Wilmington, NC), Ryan Lista (San Diego, CA), Parker Madden (Ruston, LA), Sean Rojas (San Antonio, TX), and Jack Steel (Medford Lakes, NJ).