SMITHFIELD, RI- The nationally-ranked Wheaton College baseball team completed its regular season by opposing regionally-ranked Division I Bryant University on Saturday at the Bryant Baseball Complex, where it lost 13-3. Now 30-12, the Lyons await a possible at-large berth into the NCAA Tournament.

Wheaton, which is ranked 15th by D3baseball.com and fifth in the New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association (NEIBA) regional poll, last played a Division I school in 2006, falling at the College of the Holy Cross. The Bulldogs are 29-21 and ranked fourth in New England, as they are in their first season of reclassifying from Division II.

The Lyon offense was held in check for the first four innings, as the first 12 Wheaton hitters were set down, and sophomore Sean Munley (Trenton, NJ/The Hun School of Princeton) walked leading off the fifth inning to become its first base runner.

Bryant grabbed a 1-0 lead in the second when freshman Jamie Skagerlind (Holden, MA/Wachusett Regional) hit a two-out solo homer, but sophomore southpaw Kevin Calabro (Andover, MA/Andover) got out of an ensuing bases-loaded jam by inducing a groundout. However, the hosts were aided by a pair of Lyon errors in plating three unearned runs in the third. Skagerlind poked a two-run double during the frame.

Consecutive RBI doubles by the Bulldogs with no one out in the fifth made it 6-0, but freshman Nolan Corr (Somersworth, NH/Saint Thomas Aquinas) came out of the bullpen and nearly wriggled out of trouble before another two-bagger capped a three-run inning.

Wheaton's offense came alive in the sixth, as an infield error led to a trio of unearned runs. Sophomore Eric Laliberte (Nashua, NH/Bishop Guertin) singled up the middle with one out for the Lyons' initial hit, and Munley provided a two-out, two-run single to put the visitors on the board. Junior Paul Malaguti (Andover, MA/Andover) followed with a run-scoring knock.

Bryant put the game away with six runs on six hits in the home half, with Skagerlind again in the middle of things, this time producing a two-run single.

Munley finished with his two RBI and one of Wheaton's three hits, while Calabro suffered the loss, yielding four earned runs in four innings. In relief, sophomore lefty Chad Kasik (Dudley, MA/Shepherd Hill Regional) allowed one earned run in three frames.

Skagerlind was 3-for-4 with five RBI for Bryant, while junior Eric Polvani (Wallingford, CT/Sheehan) earned his seventh win of the spring.