
Cougs Fall to UNCW in CAA Semifinal Game
5/24/2025 5:13:00 PM | Baseball
MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – No. 4 College of Charleston baseball lost 6-5 Saturday afternoon to No. 2 UNCW in the 2025 CAA Semifinal game.
The Cougars finish their season with a 37-22 overall record, the fourth consecutive season with at least 36 victories.
CRITICAL POINTS AGAINST UNCW:
OF NOTE:
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The Cougars finish their season with a 37-22 overall record, the fourth consecutive season with at least 36 victories.
CRITICAL POINTS AGAINST UNCW:
- Trailing 1-0 in the top of the fifth, Charleston sparked a five-run frame.
- Senior Ben Venables leveled the game at one following a UNCW fielding error while the next two runs came on fielder's choices.
- CofC's fourth run of the inning came on a back, plating redshirt junior Ethan Plyler.
- Senior Dylan Johnson capped off the frame with an RBI single to center.
- Senior Tyler Sorrentino led off the inning with a single, his 19th straight game with a hit.
- Freshman Drew Medley struck out six batters across 5.1 frames.
- Senior Dariyan Pendergrass swiped his 43rd base of the season.
- UNCW cut into Charleston's lead with two runs in the sixth and one in the seventh before plating a pair in the ninth.
OF NOTE:
- Charleston's 12 wins in the month of May are the most under the Chad Holbrook era.
- CofC's 118 stolen bases this season are the most since 2019, which is also tied for the sixth-most in program history.
- Sorrentino's 19-game hitting streak is tied with Joey Bergman (2009) and Blake Butler (2015) for the fifth-longest in school history.
- The 131 doubles and 16 triples hit are both tied for the eighth-most in a season.
- Junior Jake Brink set a career-high with 93.0 innings of work on the mound in 2025.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Cyle Phelan (2-2)
L: Brink, Jake (6-6)

Batting:
RBI: Pendergrass, Dariyan 1 ; Penfield, Landon 1 ; Johnson, Dylan 1 ; Venables, Ben 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Pendergrass, Dariyan 1 ; Plyler, Ethan 1 ; Penfield, Landon 1 ; Sorrentino, Tyler 1 ; LaCoste, Alex 1
SB: Pendergrass, Dariyan 1 ; Neaves, Avery 1
CS: Pendergrass, Dariyan 1
HBP: LaCoste, Alex 1
PO: Pendergrass, Dariyan 1

Batting:
2B: Brock Wills 1 ; Tanner Thach 1 ; Bryan Arendt 1
RBI: Trevor Lucas 1 ; Bryan Arendt 2 ; Aidan Evans 1 ; Alec DeMartino 1
SF: Alec DeMartino 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Brock Wills 1 ; Trevor Lucas 1 ; Tanner Thach 1 ; Bryan Arendt 1 ; Mac Gillespie 2
SB: Brock Wills 1 ; Mac Gillespie 1
HBP: Tanner Thach 1 ; Aidan Evans 1
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