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Winner Chestnut Hill CHC 19-13
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Goldey-Beacom GBCBB 20-7
Winner
Chestnut Hill CHC
19-13
9
Final
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Goldey-Beacom GBCBB
20-7
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Chestnut Hill CHC 2 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 1 9 12 3
Goldey-Beacom GBCBB 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 10 3

W: D. Rockenbac (6-0) L: Guerrieri, Mitch (3-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Stunned, 9-6, by Chestnut Hill in CACC Tournament



Goldey-Beacom, champions of the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference South Division, was handed a tough 9-6 loss in the tournament's division semifinals by Chestnut Hill at Doyle Field in Hockessin, DE.
 
Goldey-Beacom (20-7) now will wait to see if it receives a berth in the NCAA Tournament, with the announcement scheduled for Sunday, May 23 at 10:00 pm.  In addition to winning the division, the Lightning are ranked fifth in the East Region according to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) for the highest ranking among CACC teams and broke the school record for most wins in a season.
 
A 2-0 deficit for the Lightning disappeared in the last of the first inning with three runs.  The bases were loaded with one out when freshman Kyle Walker (Wilmington, DE) reached on a fielding error, allowing sophomores Connor Megginson (Harbeson, DE) and Mason Maxwell (Newfield, NJ) to score for a 2-2 tie.  Two batters later, another fielding error off the bat of junior Trent Hearn (Bethel, DE) allowed sophomore Marshall Awtry (Hockessin, DE) to cross home for a 3-2 game.
 
The margin grew to 5-2 in the second.  Junior Jeff Gillis (Hockessin, DE) drew a leadoff walk, took second on a wild pitch and scored on Maxwell's RBI single.  Awtry followed with a run-scoring double to plate Maxwell.
 
GBC got one more in the fourth for a 6-2 contest.  Megginson induced a leadoff walk, took third on a throwing error and easily scored on Awtry's RBI double to deep center.
 
But the Griffins took over from there by scoring in each of the last four innings.  The comeback began in the sixth when Corbin Dunnack scored on a wild pitch for a 6-3 margin.  It continued into the seventh when Andrew Dietz lined an RBI single and Nick Delacruz lifted a sacrifice fly for a one-run game.
 
Then came the fateful eighth inning.  Ameir Uzzell drew a leadoff walk and Sam Barletta followed with being hit by a pitch.  Two batters later, Dietz crushed one over the left-field fence for a three-run homer that gave Chestnut Hill an 8-6 lead.
 
John Contoudis drew a bases-loaded walk in the ninth to make it 9-6 for the Griffins.  Megginson led off the bottom of the ninth for the Lightning with a single, but the next three batters were retired to end it.
 
Megginson, Maxwell and Awtry all recorded two hits apiece with Maxwell extending his hitting streak to 10 games.  Junior Trevor Jump (Wilmington, DE) struck out five over six innings and now has 123 career strikeouts, breaking the school record of 122 held by Brandon Abdul (2017-19).
 
Dietz closed with three hits and five RBI for the Griffins (19-13).  Dan Rockenbach (6-0) got the victory in relief, striking out two over 2 1/3 scoreless frames and allowing just two hits.
 
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