WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. (May 24, 2025) – The Stonehill College baseball team concluded its 2025 season on Saturday afternoon with a hard-fought 6–4 loss to Wagner College in the Northeast Conference (NEC) Postseason Tournament at Heritage Financial Park in Wappingers Falls, New York.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Graduate student Jack Thorbahn led the way for the Skyhawks at the dish, going 2-for-3 with a walk and two runs batted in.
- Sophomore Ryan LeClair rounded out the season on a team-high 28 game on-base streak, while senior Sam Parks and sophomore Grayson Sparr extended theirs to 20 games apiece.
- Sparr and senior Dylan Zemotel registered the lone extra-base hits on the day for Stonehill.
- Freshman Hunter Bell took the loss on the mound after allowing two earned runs over 3.0 innings of work off three hits and two walks.
- Sophomore Diego Tavarez paved the way for the Seahawks, going 2-for-4 with a double, stolen base, run scored, and a RBI.
- Graduate students Lukas Torres and Xavier Ulrich as well as sophomore Connor Roche and junior Nicholas Mazzotta tallied extra-bast hits to help lead Wagner.
- Junior Colin Trizuto secured the win on the hill for Wagner, allowing just three earned runs over 5.2 innings where he struck out four.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Following two and a half scoreless innings pitched by Bell and Trizuto, Wagner broke the deadlock in the bottom of the third. After Torres worked a full-count walk, Mazzotta stepped to the plate and delivered an RBI triple into the left-center gap, scoring Torres and giving the Seahawks a 1-0 lead.
Roche led off the bottom of the fourth with a double to left-center and was later brought home on a sacrifice fly to center by Torres, extending Wagner's lead to 2-0. The Seahawks continued to build momentum in the fifth, as an RBI double from Ulrich and a sacrifice fly by Roche pushed the advantage to 4-0 heading into the sixth inning.
Stonehill responded swiftly in the top of the sixth to cut the deficit to one. Zemotel opened the frame with a double down the right-field line. LeClair was then hit by a pitch, and Parks drew a walk to load the bases with no outs. Zemotel eventually came around to score when junior
Aidan Cohall grounded back to the pitcher.
Sparr kept the rally going by drawing a two-out walk to reload the bases. On a 2-1 count, Thorbahn, the graduate first baseman, lined a two-run single through the right side of the infield, pulling the Skyhawks within one at 4-3.
Wagner responded immediately in the bottom of the sixth, regaining a three-run cushion with a pair of runs. The Seahawks' rally was sparked by an RBI double from Tavarez and a wild pitch from junior
Adam Martin, which allowed Mazzotta to score, making it 6-3.
Despite scoring a run in the top of the eighth on a throwing error by the Wagner second baseman and bringing the go-ahead run to the plate in the ninth, Stonehill came up just short, falling to Wagner in a hard-fought 6-4 loss.
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