Nashua Wins Futures Collegiate Baseball League Championship

BURLINGTON, VT —Boston College-bound Kyle Wolff hit the go-ahead, two-run homer in the top of the ninth inning, helping the Nashua Silver Knights to a championship-clinching win over the Vermont Lake Monsters Friday in Burlington, Vermont.

The 6-5 victory gave Nashua a 2-1 series win in the best-of-three series, as the Silver Knights earned their sixth Futures Collegiate Baseball League (FCBL) title in team history.

The Silver Knights trailed 5-4 in the ninth at Centennial Field when series MVP Jack McDermott (Amherst College) doubled with one out.

Then, Wolff, a native of Andover, Massachusetts, hit a two-run shot to give the Knights the lead.

"I felt if Jack (McDermont) gets on, we can make some magic happen," Wolff told the Eagle-Tribune. "And we made some magic happen. ... we did it, and it feels really good."

Righty Will Andrews (Wake Forest) closed it out in the ninth for Nashua, getting Vermont's Brian Schaub to fly out to right field to end the game.

A day after hitting a walk-off double to give the Silver Knights a 6-5 Game 2 win in Nashua, McDermott came up big in the clincher, hitting a two-run homer in the fifth inning that gave Nashua a 4-3 lead.

For the series, McDermott was 5-for-11, with two doubles, a home run, four RBIs and two runs scored.

Nashua lefty Noah Wachter (Plymouth State) got the start in Game 3, eventually going 5.2 innings and giving up five runs, two of them earned.

Outfielder Matt D'Amato (Salve Regina) had a sacrifice fly to give Silver Knights a 1-0 lead in the top of the second. The Knights' Brady DesJardins (Niagara) had an RBI single in the fourth, which brought the team back to within a run, 3-2.

The Silver Knights' series victory was all the more impressive given they had dropped Game 1 of the series 12-0 last Wednesday in Burlington.

But Wolff said the team never lost belief.

"We got down 12-0 in the first game and we still felt all the pressure was on Vermont," Wolff told the Eagle-Tribune. "(Vermont) had to be perfect, they had to come to our field, and then ultimately, come here (to Burlington) again, and in Game 3 anything can happen."