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Springfield SPRINGFI 2-7
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Winner Eastern Conn. St. EASTERN 6-3
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Eastern Conn. St. EASTERN
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Springfield SPRINGFI 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 5 8 2
Eastern Conn. St. EASTERN 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 6 10 1

W: T. Rice (1-1) L: Fellows, Brady (0-2)

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Winner Rutgers-Newark RUTGERS- 7-7
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Springfield SPRINGFI 2-8
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Final
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Springfield SPRINGFI
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Rutgers-Newark RUTGERS- 3 1 0 6 2 0 4 16 15 0
Springfield SPRINGFI 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 6 3 3

W: J. Farringto (1-0) L: Goodwin, Brock (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Falls to Eastern Connecticut and Rutgers-Newark in Florida

Davenport, Fla. – March 18, 2025 – The Springfield College baseball team fell to Eastern Connecticut State University, 6-5, and Rutgers-Newark University, 16-6, early this week in Florida.

Springfield's record now sits at 2-8 with still a pair of games to be played in Florida before returning home to Massachusetts. Springfield will take on Wisconsin-River Falls tomorrow at 9:15 am from Northeast Regional Park.

Eastern Connecticut State 6, Springfield 5

After five scoreless innings, Springfield was able to put together a pair of runs in the top of the sixth. An RBI knock from Nate Garafalo (Kinderhook, N.Y.) broke the 0-0 tie before a sacrifice fly from Nicholas Lloyd (Easthampton, Mass.) that plated Garafalo made it 2-0. Chris Balchius (Norwalk, Conn.) then made it 3-0 scoring on a wild pitch after he began the inning with a single, stole second and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt.

Eastern Connecticut answered and knotted the score at three in the bottom of the seventh. The Warriors loaded the bases and used an error to score its first run before a two-run single tied the score.

Garafalo led off the eighth with a single and then scored on an RBI triple from Michael Lepere (Beacon, N.Y.) for a 4-3 edge and then a Lloyd RBI single gave Springfield a 5-3 edge heading into the bottom of the ninth.

The Warriors quickly got a run back on a sacrifice fly before three straight hits gave Eastern Connecticut the 6-5 walk-off win.

Garafalo went 2-for-4 with two runs, an RBI and a walk, Lloyd went 1-for-2 with two RBI and two walks, while six other student-athletes gathered one hit against EastConn. JP Catellier (Springfield, Mass.) had a terrific start for the Pride going the first six innings as he struck out eight and scattered three hits, while allowing zero runs. The bullpen couldn't hang on in the end falling, 6-5.

Rutgers-Newark 16, Springfield 6 (7 Innings)

Rutgers-Newark produced 16 runs on 15 hits and hit three home runs in the win. Paul Recchia went 4-for-4, hit two round trippers and knocked in four runs just missing a triple to hit for the cycle. All nine starters for Rutgers-Newark tallied at least one hit. Springfield scored its six runs on just three total hits.

Rutgers-Newark jumped out to a 3-0 lead after half an inning before Springfield used two bases loaded walks and a two-run single from Luke DiMauro (Haddam, Conn.) to take a 4-3 lead. Recchia's first homer of the day evened the score at four in the second before he started a six run top of the fourth with a two-run shot. 

Rutgers-Newark scored eight unanswered runs to go ahead 11-4 before a two-run single to right center by Lepere cut Springfield's deficit to six at 12-6 through six. With the ten run rule in effect, Recchia hit his second homer of the day in the top of the seventh before Rutgers-Newark completed the run-rule win, 16-6, in seven frames.

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