• George Fox and Mass-Boston make history with unique assistants
    March 13, 2024
    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.
  • Region 2 Preview: New England II
    February 13, 2024
    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.
  • Meet the Metz! Drew Metzdorf Hits For First Cycle in Baseball Program History in UMass Boston Victory
    March 14, 2023
    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.
  • Eastern, Hamline get first wins on Thursday
    March 02, 2023
    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.
  • UMass Boston's Alex Amalfi Inks Professional Contract With Toronto Blue Jays
    July 21, 2022
    Junior righty signed with the Blue Jays as an undrafted free agent
  • UMass Boston Scores Seven Unanswered To Walk-Off Against JWU
    March 22, 2022
    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.
  • Mass-Boston strikeouts 21 on Monday
    March 07, 2022
    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.
  • UMass Boston Pitchers Set Program Record For Strikeouts In A Game To Begin 2022 Campaign
    March 07, 2022
    Trio combined for 21 K's in the Beacons 2022 season opener, a 10-1 win over Framingham State
  • Region 2 Preview: New England
    February 16, 2022
    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
  • Thursday Recap
    March 05, 2020
    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.
  • New England schools get wins on Saturday
    February 29, 2020
    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.
  • UMass Boston's Nick Herzog Signs Second Pro Contract Of The Summer
    August 19, 2019
    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 emerges from elimination bracket to advance
    June 03, 2019
    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 walks to victory
    June 02, 2019
    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.
  • Beacons slide into Bracket 1 final
    June 01, 2019
    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.
  • Mass-Boston takes advantage to advance
    May 31, 2019
    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.
  • New city, new experiences
    May 30, 2019
    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.
  • 2019 Division III World Series
    May 29, 2019
    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!
  • How they'll match up in Cedar Rapids
    May 26, 2019
    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.
  • D-III World Series field is set
    May 25, 2019
    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.
  • TICKET PUNCHED! UMass Boston Downs Pilgrims In Game 3 To Earn Super Regional Title
    May 25, 2019
    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. 
  • Super Regionals open with thrillers
    May 24, 2019
    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.
  • #23/24 UMass Boston Earns Comeback Win over Pilgrims
    May 24, 2019
    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.
  • Super Regionals filled, almost
    May 19, 2019
    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.
  • Top-seeded UMass Boston Blows Past #4 Baruch College 15-1
    May 17, 2019
    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). 
  • Three-Peat: #2 UMass Boston Becomes First-Ever Team To Win 3 Straight LEC Titles
    May 12, 2019
    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.
  • UMB sends Southern Maine to the showers
    May 11, 2019
    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.
  • #2 UMass Boston Opens LEC Tournament With Walk-Off Win
    May 08, 2019
    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.
  • D3baseball.com Team of the Week
    May 07, 2019
    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.
  • Jones, Audet, Fashempour are honored by NCBWA
    April 17, 2019
    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.
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