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| Keith Long threw the first no-hitter in the D-III season to open a doubleheader with UMHB. Texas-Tyler athletics photo by Lang White |
Texas-Tyler (4-2) swept two games over Mary Hardin-Baylor (3-5) on February 24. The first game was highlighted by a no-hitter from junior right-handed pitcher Keith Long with Texas-Tyler earning a 3-0 win. The Patriots trailed early in the second game before exploding for 10 runs over the final three innings to secure the sweep. Long finished the day with 11 strikeouts in his seven innings of work. He was responsible for just one baserunner on a walk while two others reached base via errors during the game.
Birmingham-Southern defeated the Roanoke Maroons 7-0 on Monday March 4, improving to 9-4 on the year. Early offensive production and shutdown pitching propelled the Panthers to the win, a combined no-hitter against the Maroons. Sophomore Adam Richards got the start for BSC and pitched four no-hit innings. Junior southpaw Hanan Mauldin came in in relief and continued to sit down batters, pitching two shutout innings and earning up his first win of the season. Preston Jenkins, Tristan Harvin and Paul Williamson finished out the combined no-hitter, each pitching one inning.
Grove City College sophomore pitcher Lake Pry threw the Wolverines' first no-hitter in 19 years Thursday March 7 to help lead Grove City to a 10-0 victory over Penn State New Kensington at Lake Myrtle Field. The game went eight innings instead of the scheduled nine innings due to the 10-run mercy rule. Pry struck out 13 batters and allowed only one walk. He faced 25 batters, one over the minimum. He is the first Grove City's pitcher to throw a no-hitter since May 3, 2000, when J.G. Louden no-hit Oberlin in the season finale. Pry's 13 strikeouts are the most for a Grove City pitcher since Erik Arnesen mowed down 13 Pitt-Greensburg batters March 18, 2006.
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| Tyler Showers no-hitter was the second for Arcadia. Arcadia athletis photo |
Hope opened the 2019 season in grand fashion Friday March 15 by firing the eighth no-hitter in team history. The Flying Dutchmen recorded an 11-0 victory in seven innings against Clarkson in Auburndale, Florida. Starting pitcher Sean Hoey combined with relievers Matt VanDyken and Max Gaishin to no-hit a Clarkson team that scored 13 runs in its first game on Friday. A righthander, Hoey threw 79 pitches over 5.2 innings before exiting due to a pre-determined pitch count. He struck out nine and walked three.
Arcadia swept Messiah in a doubleheader in almost perfect fashion on Saturday March 16th in Port St. Lucie, Fla. With the wins, the Knights have won four of their last five games, improving to 6-4 on the season. In the second game Tyler Showers was near perfect on the bump for Arcadia as he recorded the program's second ever no-hitter, leading the Knights to victory. Former Knights' hurler Matt Melcher no-hit Gwyneed-Mercy in the first round of the 2002 Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) tournament in an Arcadia 4-0. Showers needed only 87 pitches to accomplish the feat as he struck out six, with his only blemish coming on a lead-off walk to start the fourth inning.
TCNJ pitchers Matt Volpe and Nickolas Kleftogiannis combined to pitch a no-hitter in the first game of a doubleheader against Hamilton on March 19 Tuesday afternoon at the RussMatt Invitational. The Lions won that game, 9-1, before winning the second game, 7-1. Both games were played in seven innings. Volpe, a freshman making his collegiate pitching debut, pitched five hitless innings. He struck out six and walked just two, and he started with a first-pitch strike on 12 of the 18 batters he faced. Kleftogiannis came in for the bottom of the sixth, and he set Hamilton down in order in both of his innings. He threw 30 pitches in his two innings, and 22 of them went for strikes.
Freshman left-hander Keaton Hamilton and junior reliever CJ Otteman combined to throw the second no-hitter for Hope in six days on Wednesday March 20 in Auburndale, Florida. The Flying Dutchmen beat Minnesota-Morris, 6-2, in seven innings in Game 1 of a non-league doubleheader with the ninth no-hitter in team history. Keaton, a Grandville High School product, started and pitched 6 2/3 innings. In his second collegiate start, Hamilton (1-0) struck out eighth and allowed five baserunners (four walks and one hit batter). Otteman, a Zeeland High High School product, entered with two runners on base in the bottom of the seventh and retired the final batter on a strikeout. Hope completed the sweep with an 8-0 victory in Game 2. The Flying Dutchmen are now 8-0 on season and went unbeaten during their annual spring break trip for the first time in team history.
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| Ray Lutick finished the first no-hitter in Cabrini program history for a 3+ inning save. Cabrini athletics photo |
Senior pitcher Brian Johnson became the only student-athlete in the Springfield program's Division III history to throw multiple no hitters, as the Pride knocked off Emerson, 7-1, in game one, before defeating the Lions in game two, 11-5, to begin NEWMAC) play on March 24 at Pete Frates Diamond. Johnson pitched 9.0 innings, holding Emerson hitless while picking up nine strikeouts en route to his first win of the season. Johnson was also the last Springfield College baseball student-athlete to throw a no hitter, as he did so in a 5-0 win over Colby Sawyer on March 17, 2017. Before that, the last no hitter to be thrown within the program was by Kevin Cahill '01 G'04, when he no hit cross-town rival Western New England in the 2001 season.
Senior left-handed pitcher Chris Atwood registered the 10th no-hitter in the history of the UW-Oshkosh program during the Titans' doubleheader sweep of Finlandia on Sunday March 31 at Tiedemann Field. UW-Oshkosh (11-6) defeated the Lions by nine-inning scores of 8-0 in the opener and 10-2 in the nightcap to extend its winning streak to nine straight games. Atwood (2-2) threw only 88 pitches in Sunday's first game and retired 27 of the 29 Lions he faced. Atwood struck out a career-high 13 batters, including two in the first, second, eighth and ninth innings, as he recorded his first complete-game performance in six career starts.
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| Worth Walrod earned the weekly NCBWA pitching award for his no-hitter. Suffolk athletics photo |
Luther hosted Wartburg Tuesday April 2 for the home opener and swept the Knights 10-0 (8) and 7-0. In game two, freshman John Colucci III, faced 29 batters, two over the minimum, en route to a no-hitter. Colucci walked two and struck out four in his second collegiate start on the mound. Colucci's no-no is the third by a Norse pitcher in the last three-plus years.
Worth Walrod was near perfect on the mound as he fired a no-hitter in the opener of an April 7, 2019 GNAC doubleheader against Anna Maria to lead Suffolk to a 5-0 victory over the AMCATs at East Boston Memorial Park. In his no-hit performance, Walrod gave up just three walks and fanned 10 hitters, tieing a career high. Walrod is the first Suffolk pitcher to toss a no-hitter since Jhonneris Mendez did so in a 3-0 win over GNAC foe Lasell April 7, 2012.
Four Oswego State pitchers combined for a 10-0 shutout as they no-hit Clarkson in the second game of a doubleheader to fuel a sweep on Wednesday April 10. Matt Bowman kicked off the no-hitter with an inning of work and Jake Jacobs took the next three while striking out five. Erik Dusseldorp pitched two innings and struck out four batters with Matt Zakala finishing it off with two strikeouts in the seventh inning. This was the seventh no-hit shutout in Oswego Baseball history and the first since 1984.
UW-La Crosse earned a doubleheader split at top-ranked Concordia-Chicago April 18 at Benedictine. The Eagles took the nightcap, 10-0 in a seven inning no-hitter. Connor Cook (4-1) pitched UWL's seventh no-hitter as UWL ended Concordia Chicago's 24-game winning streak. Cook went 7.0 innings, allowing one walk while striking out eight. He faced two batters over the minimum as Connor Brandon walked in the bottom of the second and Bryan VanDuser reached on an Eagles' fielding error in the seventh.
Salem State senior Stephen Keskinidis fired a no-hitter against the Fitchburg State Falcons in a dominating performance on April 19th. Keskinidis, struck out five and walked three to lead the Vikings to a 1-0 MASCAC victory in game one of the Vikings' scheduled doubleheader. Keskinidis is the first Vikings' pitcher to record a no-hitter since Mike Richardson shutout Framingham State 1-0 in 2015.
Reigning SCAC Pitcher of the Week Austin Smith followed his dominant performance against No. 4 Trinity (Texas) with his first no-hitter of the season to defeat the University of Dallas Crusaders 15-0 in seven innings on April 19th. Smith induced a pop out to end the game and complete his no-hitter, finishing with 10 strikeouts and three walks.
Andrew Hill fired the 13th no-hitter in program history, and the sophomore's electric stuff was just what the 11th-ranked College of Wooster needed to get back on track on Sunday April 21 at Allegheny . Wooster stormed back to take game two 16-0 after dropping its first North Coast Athletic Conference contest of the season 6-1 in Sunday's opener.
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| Matthew Williams' no hitter in the 2019 NCAA playoffs is the third complete game no-hitter tossed since Norm Charlesworth, Rowan in 1980 and Jordan Baitinger, Ripon in 2007. Concordia Texas athletics photo |
Matthew Williams was nearly perfect, tossing nine-innings of no-hit ball and walking just two, recording the program's first no-hitter since 2004 and the No. 25 Concordia Texas defeated Franklin 4-0 on Saturday May 17 to advance to the NCAA Regional Championship game. Williams, the American Southwest Conference Pitcher of the Year, was un-hittable for the Tornados, striking out seven Grizzlies and walking just two batters. It is his fourth complete game shutout of the season and sets the ASC record for wins in a single season with 12 for the year. It is the first no-hitter for CTX since Scott Gordon went the distance against St. Edward's in a seven-inning game back on Feb. 14, 2004.
UW-Whitewater sophomore pitcher Matt O'Sullivan highlighted the 12-0 win over UW-Platteville with the program's seventh no-hitter all time and first since 2010. He was perfect through 5.2 innings before surrendering a two-out walk in the bottom of the sixth. O'Sullivan (5-2) pitched a 1-2-3 seventh inning, ending the contest with his ninth strikeout. He needed only 75 pitches to get through the 21 outs.
Junior right-hander Garrett Renslow tossed the fifth ever no-hitter in University of Rochester baseball history as the Yellowjackets earned a 10-0 victory over visiting Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Thursday evening at Towers Field during the Liberty League conference tournament. Renslow needed 110 pitches to get 27 outs, only yielding two walks and striking out eight in the career outing. The junior moves to 5-2 on the season and lowers his ERA to 1.78 on the season.
Westfield State senior lefthander John Gegetskas threw a no-hitter as Westfield State defeated Framingham State, 12-0 in the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference baseball tournament at Bud and Jim Hagan Field on Thursday and propel the Owls into the tournament's championship round on Saturday. Gegetskas faced the minimum, 24 hitters as the game was shortened by the MASCAC's 12-run rule in the bottom of the eighth as Owls leftfielder Casey Boudreau singled home Jake Gibb with the walk-off run and make the no-no official. The only runner to reach base was Framingham's Aaron Williams as he reached on an error to lead off the top of the fourth inning, and he was erased on the next play as Kyle Lippert grounded into a 4-6-3 double play.