STANDISH, Maine – April 2, 2024 – The Dean College baseball team dropped a Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) road game to Saint Joseph's (ME), 6-2, Tuesday afternoon.

Dean goes to 3-11 overall and 0-5 in the conference. Saint Joseph's improves to 4-12 overall and 1-2 in the GNAC.

After a scoreless first inning, Dean struck for a run in the top of the second when first-year Nathan Suncar (Boston, Mass.) belted his fourth home run of the season.

The Monks answered with a pair of unearned runs in the bottom half of the inning to take a 2-1 lead.

Saint Joseph's then scored three times in the fourth with the big hit coming from Luke Doughty who singled home a pair.

In the top of the fifth, the Bulldogs plated a run when first-year Owen Critchley (Dayton, Maine) hit a sac fly to left to bring home sophomore Tyler Giambra (Prospect, Conn.) who reached on a walk and stole a base.
The home team added an insurance run in the eighth to make the score 6-2.

Sophomore Jacob Koble (Narragansett, R.I.) tossed four innings of relief for the Bulldogs. He gave up one run on three hits.

Sophomore Gavin Goss (Glenwood Landing, N.Y.), senior Kyle Lancaster (Dartmouth, Mass.), sophomore Spencer Lichstrahl (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and sophomore Nick Amendolara (Bayville, N.Y.) each had a single.