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Goldey-Beacom GOLDEY-B 22-9
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Winner Molloy MOLLOY 24-10
Goldey-Beacom GOLDEY-B
22-9
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Molloy MOLLOY
24-10
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Goldey-Beacom GOLDEY-B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 9 3
Molloy MOLLOY 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 X 6 11 0

W: T. Panetta (7-2) L: DiMartino, Anthony (4-1) S: R. Lucano (1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Sees Its Season End With 6-4 Loss to Molloy in the NCAA Tournament



Goldey-Beacom's incredible campaign that featured its first trip to the NCAA Tournament and a ninth-inning rally in the final game ended with a tough 6-4 loss against Molloy in the East Regional in Rindge, NH.
 
Today's result does not take anything away from what truly has been an outstanding year on many levels.  In just the program's fifth season that included a pandemic-shortened 2020, GBC broke the school record for most wins, won the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference South Division, went on a pair of eight-game winning streaks and opened 8-0 for the best start in program history.
 
The Lightning (22-9) were ranked fourth in the first NCAA East Region poll, outscored their opponents 253-117 and had six players named all-conference with freshman Garrett Musey (Millville, NJ) named CACC Rookie of the Year and Tom Riley tabbed Coach of the Year.  Musey also was picked second team NCBWA All-East Region and Riley was the region's Coach of the Year.
 
This also marks the end of an outstanding career for senior Justin Hill (Seaford, DE), who was one of the program's original players from 2017 and has been the very definition of a true leader.  One of the team's most reliable competitors whose legacy goes beyond the stat sheet, Hill will be missed in many aspects in addition to being one of the greatest student-athletes in Goldey-Beacom history.
 
Hill started 188 of the 190 games in school history and graduates first in team history with 160 career hits, first with 82 RBI, first with 35 doubles, first with 108 runs, first with 39 stolen bases and first with 438 assists.
 
Molloy (24-10) opened the scoring in the first inning when Garrett Scavelli got an infield single to plate Sean Hogan.  The margin doubled to 2-0 in the second when Vincent Pecora singled, stole the next two bases and crossed home on James Messina's groundout.
 
The Lions manufactured a run in the fifth for a 3-0 lead, capped when Scavelli lifted a sacrifice fly to right field.  A Lightning error in the sixth to go with Peter Theodorellis' sacrifice fly on the next at-bat ballooned the cushion to five.
 
Messina launched a solo blast in the last of the eighth to make it 6-0.
 
But the never-say-die Lightning rallied for four runs in the ninth.  Connor Megginson (Harbeson, DE) ripped an RBI single and fellow sophomore Mason Maxwell (Newfield, NJ) followed with a three-run homer to deep right-center field for his 11th long ball of the year, extending his own school record.  The blast ran his single-season RBI total to 35, breaking the school record of 32 set in 2018 by Keegan Marsden.
 
Maxwell, who ran his hitting streak to 14 games, and junior Jeff Gillis (Hockessin, DE) each closed with two hits.  Sophomore Anthony DiMartino (Sicklerville, NJ) struck out four over 4 2/3 innings.
 
Timothy Panetta had nine strikeouts over six innings for the Lions.
 
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