Baseball fell to Dayton in a sweep during their final series of the season last weekend, marking the conclusion to a disappointing spring riddled with both heartbreaking and blowout losses and recurring struggles against Atlantic 10 competitors.
The Revolutionaries finished the season with an overall record of 18-35, translating to a .340 winning percentage, and were 9-21 in A-10 play, landing at the No. 10 spot in conference standings in a twelve-team field. Despite a streaky start to the spring, which included a notable series sweep of Saint Peter’s University at the end of February, the Revs lost their footing in the second half of the season, getting swept in four straight conference series and missing the A-10 Championship as slower offensive production coincided with struggles on the mound and in the field.
The Revs lost the opening two series of the season to Western Carolina University and Lehigh University, before taking down Saint Peter’s and beating local rival Georgetown University in a 10-9 matchup in early March.
The Revs secured a series victory against Rhode Island in the first conference series of the season in mid-March, but their success quickly evaporated, falling to Saint Joseph’s in a sweep later that month. The Revs managed a series win over the A-10’s La Salle to close out the month, but the remainder of the spring brought few bright spots to the team.
GW opened April with a series loss to St. Bonaventure, and fell to Saint Louis the following week. A sweep of Virginia Commonwealth, their second and only other of the season, was drowned out after Davidson, George Mason and Richmond swept the Revs in consecutive A-10 series at the end of April into May. The Revs capped off the season this weekend against Dayton, but lost all three matchups, 9-1, 7-5 and 6-2 on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, respectively.
High-run tallies plagued the Revs’ pitchers all season, with a combined 6.54 earned-run average, the sixth worst in the A-10. Junior starting pitcher Andrew Cutler led the team in ERA at 4.68, with sophomore Declan Wywoda behind him at 5.64 and senior Max Haug with the third lowest, recording 5.99 on the season. Wywoda and Haug both finished the season with losing records, at 2-4 and 2-6, respectively, while Cutler boasted a 5-1 finish.
Relief pitching also proved to be a problem for the Revs, including struggles by sophomore Drew Harris, who finished with a 7.18 ERA in 22 relief appearances, and junior Matt Bruno, who marked a 6.39 ERA in 18 relief outings and one start. Freshman Colin Lebel was a bright spot in the bullpen with a 3.24 ERA in 17 relief appearances and one start.
The implications of the Revs’ defensive struggles were underscored by massive losses throughout the season. Western Carolina took the Revs down 13-4 in the second game of the Revs’ first series of the year, and an 11-0 loss to the University of Virginia, an 18-3 loss in the first game of a three-game series against Yale University, during which the Revs made two errors, and a 12-0 loss to Towson University — which saw the Revs make three errors — were reminders of the team’s defensive woes all season.
The team improved only marginally defensively from last season, recording 60 errors over 53 games, a slight improvement from last season’s 64, but turning fewer double plays, making fewer assists and recording fewer putouts than in 2025.
A handful of Revs posted impressive offensive numbers, with junior catcher Robbie Lavey leading nearly all offensive categories. Lavey finished the season with a team-best .339 batting average, .526 slugging percentage, 37 RBIs, eight home runs and 65 total hits, numbers that earned him the Team MVP award and a spot on the Buster Posey National Collegiate Catcher of the Year Award Midseason Watchlist.
Junior third baseman Cristino Tufano hit .316 on the year, grabbing the second-highest slugging percentage at .428, and trailing behind Lavey for the most walks and hits, with 28 and 48, respectively. Sophomore infielder Charlie Walsh hit four home runs, the second most behind Lavey, roped 11 doubles, the third most on the team, and mashed two triples, tied with Tufano.
Collectively, the Revs’ team batting average fell from .289 last season to .259, the second lowest in the A-10 ahead of only Saint Louis. The team’s slugging percentage also fell from .426 in 2025 to .384, again taking the No. 11 spot.
The Revs’ performance marks a step back from last season’s 27-27 finish, which included a 14-16 finish in A-10 play. The departure of six graduating players — redshirt senior infielder Greg Marmo, graduate outfielder Jack Kent, redshirt junior first baseman Charlie Rogan, senior pitcher Reese Crochet, graduate pitcher Luke Lemond and Haug — leaves a gap that seven incoming freshmen players hope to fill.
The crop includes three pitchers, two infielders and two outfielders. Notably, the list includes left-handed pitcher Owen Bourgeois, who hails from Surrey, United Kingdom — a rarity in a sport that lacks dominance in Europe.
