Carol Laube helped guide the Bruins and Jacqui Reynolds assisted Mass-Boston head coach Brendan Eygabroat as George Fox and UMass-Boston played the first game with a woman coach on each side of the diamond. George Fox won the game 13-6.
Good news for Eastern Connecticut State comes this year. They have a Championship in each city that has hosted and this year the East Lake era begins. The usual suspects lurk in Southern Maine and UMass-Boston and a Johnny-come-lately in Rhode Island. Last year Endicott made the final eight and have a team that is able and ready to repeat.
AUBURNDALE, Fla. – Senior third baseman Drew Metzdorf hit for the cycle in his first four at-bats in order from single to home run, becoming the first player in UMass Boston Baseball program history to hit the cycle as the Beacons won their second consecutive game, 9-4, in Florida over Ithaca College on Tuesday night.
Hamline picked up their first wins of the season playing at a neutral field and Eastern notched their first win on their spring trip. Gwynedd Mercy, John Jay, Mass-Boston, Mitchell, New England College, TCNJ and Westminster (Pa.) also earned win number on on the season.
BOSTON, Mass. – Trailing 6-0 through five innings, baseball rallied to score seven-straight runs including the walk-off fielder's choice from Aidan Blake to earn the Beacons the 7-6 non-conference win over Johnson & Wales University Tuesday afternoon at Monan Park.
A trio of pitchers for Mass-Boston combined to strikeout 21 Framingham State batters, setting a program record. In South Carolina, Rochester made a statement with a 6-1 win over No. 24 Kean.
With the New England region split in half, Region 2 looks like it could be the home of some interesting late-season battles when talking about NCAA tournament consideration.....more
No. 2 Cal Lutheran earned a D-III leading 14th win over a non-conference win over Redlands. MIT upended No. 11 Mass-Boston as the rest of the Top 25 teams took care of business.
No. 6 Babson dealt No. 2 Trinity (Texas) their first loss of the season, while No. 14 Mass-Boston celebrated an extra-inning walk-off victory to start their season.
GARY, Ind.— American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings NCAA Division III Position Player of the Year Nick Herzog (Riverhead, N.Y.) signed his second professional contract of the summer on Saturday, when he joined the Gary SouthShore RailCats of the American Association.
Chapman used a strong outing by Jonathon Hernandez and defeated Mass Boston 8-4 to earn a spot against Birmingham-Southern in the D3 Championship Series starting on Tuesday at 11 a.m. Central
Chapman used a bases-loaded walk in the tenth inning to break a 4-4 tie and added three more runs for a 8-4 win over previously unbeaten Mass Boston. This forces a rematch on Monday with the winner advancing to a best-of-three series for the national title.
Mass-Boston unloaded with five in the second and three in the third, then held on down the stretch to beat Chapman 10-6 and advance to the championship game of the top bracket.
The Beacons whittled away at Webster's lead in the late innings, then took the lead on Webster miscues in the eighth inning to come away with a 4-3 win in the teams' opening game at the 2019 Division III World Series.
We open the Cedar Rapids era but for one coach, this is his third World Series City and another was involved in selecting Cedar Rapids. For the rest, a new city will bring new experiences.
We're happy to bring you an expanded Division III World Series preview, with a page on each team for quick and easy reference for your use throughout the entirety of Division III's first trip to Cedar Rapids. Key hitters and pitchers, scouting reports, feature stories and more!
With the Division III World Series field set, the committee has set the two brackets for the upcoming weekend, the first D-III World Series in Cedar Rapids.
Babson, Heidelberg, Washington & Jefferson punched their ticket early in the day with Johns Hopkins and Webster joining shortly after. Birmingham-Southern, Chapman, and Webster earned spots and all saw UMass-Boston win an if needed game to advance.
BOSTON, Mass.—#22/23 UMass Boston rebounded from their first loss of the postseason, to earn a 6-2 win over New England College, to punch their ticket to the 2019 College World Series.
Johns Hopkins and W&J had the easiest path to a weekend opening win as Heidelberg, Babson, UMass-Boston, and Webster all needed runs in the 7th inning or later to get a Friday win. Two more games are on tap as Chapman and BSC host games.
BOSTON, Mass.—Junior Ryan McCormick’s (Cumberland, R.I.) go-ahead, two-run single in the bottom of the eighth inning proved to be the difference, as #23/24 UMass Boston baseball earned a 5-4 comeback win over New England College in game one of their Super Regional.
Cortland broke out the bats to advance to the super regionals, W&J and Johns Hopkins secured spots next as the 16 team super regionals took shape. Concordia-Chicago extended their regional into Monday with a 14-13 win in extra innings over Baldwin Wallace.
BOSTON, Mass.—Top-seeded UMass Boston struck for 12 runs across the fourth and fifth innings, to cruise past fourth-seeded Baruch College 15-1 in the opening game of the 2019 UMass Boston Regional at Monan Park.
THE BASICS
#22/23 UMass Boston 15, Baruch College 1
(UMass Boston 31-11)
(Baruch College 17-19)
HOW IT HAPPENED
The Beacons racked up 15 runs on 16 total hits, including seven extra-base knocks, to advance to the winner’s bracket of this weekend’s four-team regional.
The top-seeded Beacons will take on #2 Wheaton College on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. for a spot in Sunday’s Regional Final. In the first game on Saturday, #4 Baruch will take on #3 Saint Joseph’s College (Maine) on Saturday at 11 a.m. in an elimination game.
Every Beacon in the starting lineup had a hit or an RBI, as the Beacons won their fifth-straight game and 16th in the past 17 contests.
Senior Nick Herzog (Riverhead, N.Y.) broke out of a slump by going 2-4 with a run scored, five RBI and a pair of triples. Junior Ryan McCormick (Cumberland, R.I.) added four hits, three runs scored, an RBI and a pair of doubles. Fellow junior Danny Brown (Hudson, N.H.) tacked on two hits, three runs, two RBI, one walk and two triples.
Nick Cotraro (Beverly, Mass.) added two hits, one run and three RBI and freshman Nico Kydes (Stamford, Conn.) went 2-3 with two runs, two walks and one RBI.
On the mound, junior Ben Gottesman (Acton, Mass.) scattered two hits and two walks, while striking out eight over six scoreless innings. Freshman PJ McKermitt (Chicago, Ill.) earned his first collegiate save, after limiting the Bearcats to two hits, one run and one walk over three innings. McKermitt added on five strikeouts.
Baruch ace Paul Sirakowski fell to 5-2 on the year after lasting four innings. The junior was charged with eight hits, seven runs (five earned). Out of the pen, Robert Raman kept the Beacons in check over the final 3.1 innings, as he gave up four hits and one earned run.
Nicholas Valeriano was the lone Baruch player to reach multiple times, as he went 1-2 with a run scored and a walk.
UMass Boston grabbed the lead in the second inning. After a Brown leadoff triple, Kydes singled through a drawn-in infield to give the Beacons the lead for good. Kydes moved to third on a Charlie Huegi (Sandy Hook, Conn.) double and scored on a Herzog sac fly.
The Beacons blew the game wide-open in the fourth and fifth.
UMass Boston scored five runs in the fourth, with Herzog driving in a pair on a two-run triple and Cotraro adding a two-out, RBI single.
The Beacons extended their advantage to 14-0 with a seven-run fifth inning. After a pair of sac flies pushed the lead to 9-0, Cotraro registered a two-run single and Brown followed with a two-run triple down the right-field line. McCormick capped off the seven-run inning with an RBI single.
UMass Boston pushed their lead to 15-0 in the eighth, when Herzog tripled to right center to score McCormick.
Baruch scored their first-ever run in the NCAA Tournament in the ninth. Valeriano led off with a single and took second on an errant pickoff throw. With one out, Raymond Maurer III singled down the left field line to drive in Valeriano.
BY THE NUMBERS
Herzog set the program record for career total bases with his first triple of the day. His 134 total bases broke Ryan Walsh’s (’10) record set in 2010 (130).
UMass Boston improved to 15-8 all-time in the NCAA Tournament and 14-4 all-time in NCAA Regional play. The Beacons are 5-0 all-time in the first game of an NCAA Regional and will look to move to 5-0 in the second game of NCAA Regionals on Saturday.
Gottesman improved to 5-0 on the season and lowered his earned run average to 1.28. He has posted a 0.58 ERA in six starts this season (2 earned runs in 31 innings).
Herzog snapped out of an 0-17 streak with his two-run triple in the fourth. He broke the 50-RBI mark for the season on Friday and is tied for third in program history for a single-season with his 52 RBI.
The Beacons two pitchers combined for 13 strikeouts and allowed just four hits and three walks.
UMass Boston needs 1 more triple to tie the program record for triples in a single-season set by the 2000 team (24 triples).
WHO’S NEXT
#1 UMass Boston will be the road team at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, when they take on #2 Wheaton College in game four of the 2019 UMass Boston Regional. The winner of the contest will advance to Sunday’s final (11 a.m.), while the loser will play again at 6:00 p.m. against the winner of #4 Baruch and #3 Saint Joseph’s College (Maine).
GORHAM, Maine--#2 UMass Boston exploded for five runs in the seventh and eight innings, to roll past #5 UMass Dartmouth 8-2 and earn their third-consecutive Little East Conference Tournament Championship Title.
Southern Main joined three other Top 10 teams looking for an at-large pass into the NCAA Playoffs as they were eliminated by UMass-Boston 2-0 on Saturday. Ten of the 40 conference bids are set to be awarded on Sunday.
GORHAM, Maine—Junior Danny Brown's (Hudson, N.H.) walk-off single in the bottom of the 11th inning, led #2 UMass Boston baseball past rival #5 UMass Dartmouth 2-1 on Day 1 of the 2019 Little East Conference Baseball Tournament.
Penn State Harrisburg's Bret Williams joins Nick Herzog, Mass-Boston and Michael Gunter, Rockford as outfielders in the final D3baseball.com Team of the Week for the 2019 season.
A pair of the NCBWA Div. III weekly honors went to New England pitchers, while a 9-for-12 week at the dish for claimed the week eight hitter certificate. This week’s performances spanned games played April 8-14.
George Fox and Mass-Boston make history with unique assistants
March 13, 2024Carol Laube helped guide the Bruins and Jacqui Reynolds assisted Mass-Boston head coach Brendan Eygabroat as George Fox and UMass-Boston played the first game with a woman coach on each side of the diamond. George Fox won the game 13-6.
