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Goldey-Beacom GOLDEY-B 40-15
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Winner Wilmington (Del.) WILMINGT
Goldey-Beacom GOLDEY-B
40-15
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Wilmington (Del.) WILMINGT
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Goldey-Beacom GOLDEY-B 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 3 0
Wilmington (Del.) WILMINGT 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 6 9 1

W: Scott Borgmann (7-0) L: Miller, Nate (5-6)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Dealt Gut-Wrenching Loss by Wilmington in the NCAA Tournament

A pitchers' duel made for the NCAA Tournament took place to open East Regional 1 in Waltham, MA, but Goldey-Beacom was on the wrong end of a 6-3 loss to Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference-foe Wilmington (DE) on Brett Walmsley's three-run homer in the last of the ninth inning.
 
Goldey-Beacom goes to the elimination bracket and will face No. 10 Bentley on Friday at approximately 3:30 pm.
 
Senior Connor Blence (Downingtown, PA) simply was outstanding over his 7 2/3 innings, retiring 12 straight batters by setting down three straight to get out of a jam in the first inning before putting away the side over the next three frames.  He struck out six, allowing three runs and six hits in tossing 127 pitches.
 
Chase Fleming could not have pitched better for the Wildcats, striking out 12 over seven innings in yielding just three runs – two earned – and three hits.
 
Goldey-Beacom only needed the top of the first inning to open the scoring.  Junior Bobby Stewart (Newark, DE) drew a one-out walk, was replaced by Jaime Neris Jr. (Philadelphia, PA) on a fielder's choice and fellow sophomore Roman Keith (Selbyville, DE) was hit by a pitch.  Sophomore Zach Smethers (Nazareth, PA) continued to be a stalwart at the plate with an RBI single to score Neris and Keith touched home on a wild pitch for a 2-0 margin.
 
The Lightning were seeking insurance runs for Blence and got one in the top of the sixth.  Freshman Kaden Barmer (Edgewood, MD) hustled out a leadoff double, took third on Stewart's single and scored when Neris grounded into a fielder's choice.
 
Wilmington got on the board in the last of the sixth when Brian Klumpp cracked a solo homer just out of the reach of junior center fielder Trey Mason (Germantown, MD) for a 3-1 deficit.  The Wildcats threatened for more with the bases loaded, but Blence settled down and got Zach Frame on a first-pitch groundout to limit the damage.
 
The Wildcats in the seventh again posted a threat with runners on first and second and one out.  CACC Player of the year Tyler Pirrung hit a tough grounder that sophomore third baseman Brent Williams (Woodstown, NJ) made a great pick, stepped on third for an out and threw to first for the inning-ending double play.
 
Wilmington leveled things in the eighth.  Cam Trego drove one in on what Lightning folk thought was an innocuous groundout before Frame made amends with a two-out double to plate pinch-runner Ben Cordrey for the tie.
 
The Wildcats in the ninth got two runners on and the Lightning looked to get out of it with two outs, but Walmsley connected for an opposite-field homer over the right-field fence.
 
Two schools whose home fields are separated by 12.9 miles had to make the nearly six-hour trip to New England in a regional hosted by top seed Bentley.
 
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