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Baseball and Softball Team for 14 on the CACC All-Academic Team

6/24/2026 12:00:00 AM

Goldey-Beacom saw a combined 14 student-athletes from the baseball and softball squads make the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference All-Academic Team.
 
Baseball's list included Connor Blence (Downingtown, PA), Kevin Dillon (Mount Bethel, PA), Tommy Federici (Swoyersville, PA), Cody Klotz (Frederica, DE), Jaime Neris Jr. (Philadelphia, PA), Zach Smethers (Nazareth, PA), Britton Wildasin (New Market, MD) and Connor Wilson (Clayton, DE).  Softball's honorees include Lauren Carbonara (Newark, DE), McKenna Frank (Oxford, PA), Emma Friel (Coatesville, PA), Delaney Insinga (Southampton, NJ), Rayna Pelcak (Laurel Springs, NJ) and Molly Skelly (Blackwood, NJ).
 
Blence highlights the baseball squad in being named first team All-CACC.  Possessing great control and always giving the Lightning a chance to win, he closed second in the league with a 3.10 ERA, second with 81 1/3 innings, fourth with 78 strikeouts and seventh with a .249 batting average against.
 
Goldey-Beacom (33-24) this season played in the NCAA Tournament for the fifth time in program history and fourth consecutive.  It competed in the CACC final for the first time, was nationally ranked for the fourth time in the last five years, played in the CACC Tournament a sixth straight year and recorded an 11-game winning streak.
 
Frank was tabbed first team all-league after closing with a .413 batting average (third in the CACC), believed to be the program's second-best in the NCAA era.  She also ended fifth in the league with 52 hits, fifth with a .459 on-base percentage and first on the team with 15 multi-hit contests.
 
Skelly was picked second team All-CACC, returning to the squad this year and owning the number one pitcher's spot a majority of the season.  She closed third in the league with a 2.76 ERA, seventh with 114 1/3 innings, tied for fifth with 11 wins and ninth with a .290 batting average against.
 
Goldey-Beacom (20-20) played in the CACC Tournament a fourth straight year, led the conference with a .309 batting average and featured an opening-day lineup with four newcomers.  The Lightning also were ranked eighth in the penultimate NCAA East Region rankings with the final eight going to the NCAA Tournament.
 
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