Colleges: Feindel returns for Coast Guard, sets Div. III mark for innings pitched

Worcester, Mass. - Coast Guard Academy All-America pitcher Hayley Feindel, sidelined since March 18 with a broken finger on her pitching hand, returned to the lineup Friday with a pair of complete-game shutouts against Clark University.

Coast Guard topped Clark 10-0 in five innings and 4-0 in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference doubleheader.

In the process, Feindel became the NCAA Division III all-time leader in innings pitched with 905 in her career, breaking the record of 898 innings set by Megan Soultz of DePauw from 2007-10.

Feindel (9-4) threw 12 innings in the two games, striking out 12 and walking three. Coast Guard is 16-10 overall, 4-4 in the conference; Clark is 10-12, 1-7.

In the opener, the Bears scored three runs in the first inning and five in the second for an early 8-0 lead. Freshman Jesse Richardson had two hits and three RBI, while junior Holli Bastinck had two hits and drove in two runs.

Game two saw Coast Guard grab a 1-0 lead in the third on a Bastinck double to right-center. The game stayed that way until Devin Fellman homered to right field, making the score 2-0.

Bastinck, Fellman and Stacia Sarwinski all had three hits in game two.

Baseball

• Daniel Webster broke a 3-3 tie with three runs in the top of the eighth and went on to beat Mitchell College 8-3 in a New England Collegiate Conference game. Waterford's Gavin LaLima scored twice and Will Charkowsky had a two-run single for Mitchell (5-11, 4-3).

• Coast Guard was six-hit by WPI, losing the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference game 2-0. Eric Johnson (3-0) allowed all the hits over seven innings and Taylor Landry threw to hitless innings in relief for WPI (17-8, 6-3). Joe Petry and Cameron Carroll had doubles for Coast Guard (11-14, 5-7).

• Mike Habzda's grand slam highlighted a five-run ninth inning, leading Avery Point past Monroe College 6-3 in the first game of a doubleheader. Avery Point took the second game 7-5.

In the first game, Avery Point's Matt Harrison forced extra innings with a game-tying single in the seventh. Mike Perry had three hits and three RBI in game two for the Pointers (17-9). Flynn Donovan added two hits and two RBI while Alex Roger earned the win and Christian Dzienkiewicz recorded the last two outs for the save.

Track & field

• Conn College sophomore Mike DeLuc finished eighth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in the Sam Howell Invitational at Princeton, N.J. LeDuc had a time of 9:09.69. LeDuc is now second on the Div. III performance list.

Men's basketball

• Conn College coach Tom Satran has named juniors Rob Harrigan and John Bullitt as captains for next season's team.

Women's water polo

• Conn College's Nicky Jasbon was named the Div. III rookie of the week by the Collegiate Water Polo Association. Jasbon scored 18 goals in five matches.

Conn lost to Brown 14-9 Wednesday. Kate Jacobson had two goals and three assists and Emily Hunter scored twice for Conn (4-7).