Baseball

Monks Fall to Blazers in GNAC Elimination Game, 4-1

Monks Fall to Blazers in GNAC Elimination Game, 4-1

Pitching

Win: Kyle Sebastyanski (3-2)
Loss: Matthew Bergeron (3-1)
Save: Camden Murphy (3)

Batting

Saint Joseph's (Me.)
2B: Terry Morrissey; Luke Stephens
3B: none
HR: none
Elms
2B: none
3B: none
HR: none
full stats
Posted: May 03, 2023

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - #4 Elms College (23-13) defeated #5 Saint Joseph's College (18-22), 4-1, in a Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Baseball Tournament play-in game at Springfield College on Wednesday afternoon.

With the win Elms advances to the double-elimination segment of the GNAC Tournament and will play at top-seeded Johnson & Wales University in a quarterfinal contest on Thursday at 5:00 PM. For the Monks, the loss signals the end of the 2023 season.

The Blazers opened the scoring with the help of two SJC errors in the bottom of the second, as Aaron Young reached on a miscue to lead off the frame and advanced to second on an errant pickoff attempt. Josh Nohilly drove in his classmate with an infield groundout to lift his team to an early 1-0 edge.

A classic pitchers' duel ensued, as neither SJC starter Matthew Bergeron (Salem, N.H.) nor Elms hurler Kyle Sebastyanski allowed a run until the bottom of the eighth when the Blazers put the game out of reach with three runs on four hits.

Bergeron held the Elms batters to just two hits in the third-through-fifth innings combined and the Monks nearly knotted the game at 1-1 in the top of the eighth when Jared Wilhelm (Tolland, Conn.), who led off with a single, was cut down at the plate after Matt Thibault (Nashua, N.H.) singled to left field with two out.

The Monks scored their only run of the game with two out in the top of the ninth when senior shortstop Zach Miles (Concord, N.H.) plated freshman Terry Morrissey (Andover, Mass.) – who led off with a double – with a single up the middle.

St. Joe's out-hit Elms by an 11-7 margin and stranded nine baserunners in the season-ending setback.

Bergeron suffered the loss and fell to 4-4 on the season after allowing four runs (three earned) on seven hits (all singles) with four strikeouts over eight innings. Sebastyanski earned the win after tossing eight scoreless innings while allowing eight hits and fanning four batters. Elms closer Camden Murphy gave up a run on three hits with one strikeout in the top of the ninth.

Offensively, Wilhelm, Thibault, and junior Luke Stephens (Glastonbury, Conn.) produced two hits apiece.

 

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Founded in 1912 by the Sisters of Mercy in Portland, Maine, Saint Joseph’s College is Maine’s Catholic liberal arts college in the Mercy tradition. We are inclusive of all faiths, including no faith. The 474-acre campus, located on the shore of Sebago Lake in Standish, Maine offers more than 40 undergraduate programs and a Division III athletic program to a population of approximately 1,000 on-campus students. A pioneer of distance education since the 1970s, the College also provides online certificates and undergraduate and graduate degrees for thousands more working adults who reside in more than 20 other countries. In 2015 the College was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive its Community Engagement Classification, highlighting the College’s focus on community service throughout its mission and daily interactions within local, regional, and global communities. In 2018, Princeton Review recognized SJC as one of its “Green Colleges” for its sustainability initiatives. Learn more at www.sjcme.edu.

 

 

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