EASTON, Mass. (April 19, 2026) – The Stonehill College baseball team dropped its series finale to NEC rival Wagner College, 8-4, on Sunday morning at Lou Gorman Field. With the result, the Skyhawks fell to 14-20 overall and 12-6 in conference play, while the Seahawks improved to 16-19 overall and 14-7 in league action.
Highlights
- Juniors Jamison Howland and Nathan Kearney each recorded their team-leading 11th multi-hit performances of the season.
- Howland went 2-for-5 with a home run, while Kearney posted his second straight three-hit game, finishing 3-for-5 with two RBI.
- Senior Michael Rickert went 2-for-4 with a double and a run scored, while freshman Kacin Robinson tallied his team-leading eighth multi-hit game among rookies.
- Junior Ryan LeClair extended his team-best on-base streak to 29 games with a walk.
- Freshman Tyler Redden stole his first collegiate base, while sophomore Will Newton drew a game-high two walks.
- Junior Dan Lang took the loss, allowing three runs over 5.0 innings on three hits and three walks while striking out four.
- Senior Jake Lanzer delivered a strong relief outing, tossing 1.2 scoreless innings while allowing one hit and striking out three.
How It Happened
Wagner opened the scoring in the second inning on a sacrifice fly from Jackson Blakley, but Stonehill answered immediately as Howland launched a solo home run to right to even the score.
The two sides traded runs again in the third to make it 2-2, with Kearney driving in the Skyhawks' run. After a scoreless fourth, Wagner began to pull away, scoring in the fifth, adding two more in the sixth, and another in the seventh to build a 6-2 lead.
Stonehill chipped into the deficit with a run in the seventh on Kearney's second RBI single of the game and added another in the eighth when graduate student
Sam Parks lined an RBI single to right, cutting the deficit to 6-4.
Wagner responded with two insurance runs in the ninth to extend its lead, and despite loading the bases in the bottom half, Stonehill was unable to complete the comeback, falling 8-4 in the series finale.
Up Next
Stonehill (14-20, 12-6 NEC) returns to action on Tuesday, traveling to Amherst for matchup against non-conference opponent UMass at 3 p.m.
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