Hartford, Conn. – The Trinity College closed the 2015 season with an 8-7 setback against the Wesleyan University Cardinals, falling one run short during a comeback effort in the eighth inning to finish the year with a 14-20 record and seven losses in a row.  Wesleyan improves to 25-8 entering post-season play on Friday. 

After Wesleyan took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning on a double by senior OF Donnie Cimini (Westwood, N.J.), a passed ball, and a ground out, Trinity scored twice in the bottom of the inning for its only lead of the game.  Trinity senior tri-captain 1B Bryan Wolfe (La Habra Heights, Calif.) delivered a two-run single, and Wesleyan had to turn to its bullpen early as junior RHP Peter Rantz (Boca Raton, Fla.) retired three outs with two runners on base to end the inning.

Wesleyan scored three runs in the third frame and one each in the fourth and fifth.  Cardinal senior Andrew Yin (Potomac, Md.) highlighted the third with an RBI double, and Wesleyan junior C Eric Jones (Ridgefield, Conn.) homered in the fourth.  Trinity pulled within two runs in the bottom of the fifth inning on a two-run single by senior OF Evan Abraham (Pacific Palisades, Calif.), but Rantz worked out of trouble with no outs again thanks to a double play and a fly ball.

The Cardinals tacked on two more runs in the top of the eighth, as Wesleyan scored runners from third and second base on a squeeze bunt by Yin.  Trinity first-year OF Brendan Pierce (Hingham, Mass.) blasted a solo homer, giving him four of the team's 11 four-baggers this spring, and seniors Carson Kenney (Kensington, Md.) and Scott Huley (Greenwich, Conn.) added two-out, RBI doubles to close the gap to 8-7 in the bottom of the eighth.  With the tying run on second base, Wesleyan sophomore reliever Nick Miceli (West Hartford, Conn.) got the third out on a fly ball and added a scoreless ninth to earn his fifth save.

Rantz improved to 4-2, allowing six hits and four runs with a walk and two strikeouts over 7.1 innings, while junior RHP Dylan Callahan (Greenwich, Conn.) absorbed the loss.  Trinity senior lefty Anthony Redamonti (Trumbull, Conn.) pitched the last five outs and yielded just two hits, no runs, and no walks with one strikeout.  Cimini was 4-for-5 for Wesleyan with two runs scored, while Huley was 2-for-2 for the Bantams.