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Stonehill STONEHIL 18-28
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Winner Merrimack MERRIMAC 29-24
Stonehill STONEHIL
18-28
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Merrimack MERRIMAC
29-24
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Stonehill STONEHIL 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 8 10 0
Merrimack MERRIMAC 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 7 X 10 11 0

W: T. Healy (5-4) L: Gilleran, Jimmy (3-5) S: J. Collins (3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Falls After Eighth Inning Rally by Merrimack

Ciulla-Hall and Thorbahn went back-to-back for the second straight game. (Photo Credit Crystal Ayn Hagberg). 

NORTH ANOVER, Mass. (May 17, 2024) – The Stonehill College baseball team dropped game two of its three-game Northeast Conference (NEC) series, 10-8, to Merrimack College Friday afternoon in North Andover, Massachusetts. With the loss, the Skyhawks fall to 18-28 overall and 13-16 in conference play, while the Warriors improve to 29-24 overall and 21-11 against conference opponents.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Redshirt sophomore Sam Parks, graduate student Conor Kiely, and redshirt junior Jack Thorbahn each led the Skyhawks with two hits apiece.
  • Senior Trey Ciulla-Hall launched his team-leading 15th homerun, while Thorbahn and senior Blaine Lidsky added their respective seventh and tenth round-trippers of the season.
  • Redshirt sophomore Peter Haas struck out seven batters over 7.0 innings of work for the Skyhawks.
  • Sophomore Chris Goode and graduate student Braydon Dolbashia each recorded homeruns for Merrimack.
  • Freshman Campbell Cassidy got the start on the mound for the Warriors and struck out seven in just 3.2 innings.
  • Senior Tyghe Healy (5-4) picked up his fifth win of the season after throwing 2.0 scoreless innings of relief for Merrimack.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Following back-to-back singles from Parks and Kiely, two straight walks to Ciulla-Hall and Thorbahn would bring home Stonehill's first run of the game. With the bases still loaded and one out in the top of the first, junior Taylor Gaspar would be hit by a pitch, allowing Kiely to waltz home from third and plate the Skyhawk's second run. Senior shortstop Jack Marshall capped off Stonehill's three-run frame in the first, lifting a sacrifice fly out to right field to score Ciulla-Hall and give the Skyhawks an early 3-0 lead.

Merrimack would cut into its deficit in the bottom of the second with a two-out rally. After sophomore Christian Scanlon drew a walk and advanced to third on a double down the rightfield line off the bat of graduate student Cavan Brady, freshman Jacob Albert would step up to the plate and lace a two-run double into the left centerfield gap.

With two straight scoreless innings pitched by Haas in the books, Ciulla-Hall and Thorbahn would reward their starter's efforts on the hill with back-to-back solo blasts for the second consecutive game, extending the Skyhawks lead to 5-2 midway through the Friday afternoon matchup.

A wild pitch thrown with two outs and a runner on third by Haas in the seventh resulted in Brady coming across to score, cutting the deficit to 5-3. In the bottom of the eighth, after a leadoff single by sophomore Frankie Ferrentino, Dolbashia would launch his 17th homerun of the season to level the game at five aside for Merrimack. However, after Dolbashia's two-run shot, the Warriors would grab their first lead at 10-5, plating five additional runs fueled by a three-run homerun off the bat of Goode.

Despite Stonehill's valiant effort to mount a comeback in the ninth, plating three runs off one swing of the bat by Lidsky the Merrimack lead proved too much to overcome, as the Skyhawks eventually fell by a final score of 10-8. 

Parks improved his on-base streak to 21 straight games after going 2-for-4 on the day. (Photo Credit Crystal Ayn Hagberg). 

INSIDE THE BOX & NOTES

  • Ciulla-Hall and Gaspar each improved their on-base streaks to 29 and 32 games, respectively, while Parks has reached base now in 21 consecutive games.  
  • Ciulla-Hall has now recorded a homerun in 10 of the last 15 outings for Stonehill.
  • Marshall is now riding a team-leading 12-game hitting streak.
  • Sophomore Jimmy Gilleran (3-5) took the loss after allowing five runs in one inning of relief.

UP NEXT

Stonehill (18-28, 13-16 NEC) wraps up its 2024 regular season on Saturday with the final game of its three-game set against Merrimack. First pitch between the Skyhawks and Warriors is set for 1 p.m.

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