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CBS News
5 days ago
- Sport
- CBS News
Northeastern, Holy Cross baseball earn spot in NCAA Tournament
Both Northeastern and Holy Cross are dancing in the NCAA baseball tournament. The two Massachusetts schools were part of the field of 64 announced Monday, and will now fight for a trip to Omaha, Nebraska and the College World Series. Northeastern is one of the hottest teams in the country and are a two-seed in the Tallahassee regional, where they'll first face the three-seeded Mississippi State. Holy Cross is in the four-seed in the Chapel Hill regional, and will take the North Carolina Tar Heels, who are the top seed in their region and the No. 5 seed overall in the tournament. You can check out the full NCAA Tournament bracket here. Dates and times for games are TBD at the moment. Northeastern Huskies in NCAA Tournament The Huskies are one of the hottest teams in the country at the moment, winners of 27 straight games and 36 of their last 37. Northeastern hasn't lost a game since April 6, and have the best ERA in college baseball at 2.92. The Huskies finished the season with an incredible 48-9 record (the most wins in the NCAA) and claimed the 2025 Coastal Athletic Association Tournament championship after an eighth-inning rally over UNC Wilmington in the title game over the weekend. Northeastern came back from a 6-3 deficit on Saturday to capture the championship tilt, 9-6. Junior outfielder Harrison Feinberg hit a three-run double in the eighth to tie the game, and Northeastern went on top with a two-run double by junior infielder Carmelo Musacchia. The comeback victory gave NU its first tournament championship since 2021. The Huskies are now in the NCAA tournament for the 11th time in program history. They were pretty pumped with their selection on Monday: First up for the Huskies is Mississippi State (34-12), with Florida State and Bethume-Cookman also in the double-elimination Tallahassee regional. The winners of the first games in regional action will then face one another, with the losers playing each other in an elimination game. Bracket play will continue until three teams are eliminated with two loses, while the winner of the double-elimination bracket will advance to the best-of-three super regionals. Northeastern went 20-7 on the road during the season, and an impressive 5-1 at neutral sites. Holy Cross Crusaders in NCAA Tournament Holy Cross went 31-25 during the season and won the 2025 Patriots League Tournament last week with an 8-7 win over Army West Point in the title game. It was Holy Cross' first title since 2017. They'll first face the North Carolina Tar Heels (42-12) on their home field to start the NCAA Tournament, with Oklahoma and Nebraska rounding out the Chapel Hill regional. The Crusaders were 16-16 on the road during the season, and 0-1 at neutral sites.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Eric Lund Commits To Northeastern
Cushing Academy forward Eric Lund has committed to Northeastern, it was announced earlier this week. Lund, who hails from Bridgewater, Mass., just finished his second season at Cushing, scoring 14 goals and adding 10 assists for 24 points in 30 games. Throughout the year, Lund also suited for the Central Mass Penguins 18U, putting up seven goals and 19 points in 25 games. Throughout his 62 career games at Cushing, Lund produced a solid stat line of 19 goals and 14 assists for 33 points. While he has suited up for Central Mass and Cushing over the past two seasons, Lund also spent time playing for the South Shore Kings and Bishop Feehan High prior to that. With Eric off to join the Huskies in the fall, he will be furthering the Lund family legacy with the Huskies. Lund's older brother Cameron, a San Jose Sharks draft pick, recently finished his NCAA career with Northeastern, putting up close to a point per game throughout his collegiate career. A talented player in his own right, Eric should be able to make a difference soon enough in the NCAA.
USA Today
19-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Northeastern baseball is headed to the NCAA tournament by beating teams like a snare drum
Northeastern baseball is headed to the NCAA tournament by beating teams like a snare drum The Northeastern Huskies began their 2025 baseball season on a 4-5 slump. That's not especially surprising. College baseball's February start date is especially unkind to northern teams. Their first four weeks featured zero home games and road trips to North Carolina, Florida, California and Hawai'i. Once the Huskies got home, however, they began to beat New England's other teams like a snare drum. Northeastern sits at 45-9 as the Coastal Athletic Association tournament looms. Three more wins could officially punch an NCAA Tournament after a 25-2 romp through conference competition. That would be nice, but it's a formality. After a 24-game win streak, the Huskies sit at 19th in the poll. They're 25th in the RPI. Earning a regional hosting gig may be just out of reach, but even back-to-back losses this week would leave them no lower than a two seed in the 16 four-team pods that kick off each spring's 64-team road to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. How unlikely is this? Enough that USA Today's photo library has 36 pages of Northeastern Huskies athletics and zero pictures of its baseball team. Northeastern is a hockey school first and foremost. It also gave us Jose Juan Barea, the undersized guard who played 14 seasons in the NBA and helped the Dallas Mavericks win their first world championship. The diamond has produced few stars; 116 MLB draftees, 13 of which made it to the majors. The most successful was power-hitting first baseball Carlos Pena. Second place, in terms of career wins against replacement (WAR)? 30th-round reliever Adam Ottavino. This is to say the Huskies are often a good team from the northeast. But they've never been this good. Northeastern isn't merely beating teams en route to a program-record 45 wins. The club has left a trail of destruction in its wake. Monmouth got drubbed 34-10 in a three-game sweep. Hofstra went down by an aggregate of 19-1. Poor College of Charleston got packed up neatly and shipped back south without scoring a single run in Boston, losing by a total of 23-0. Even Kansas State, 17-13 in Big 12 play this season, got in on the action. The Wildcats made a rare trip to the east coast for a midweek two-game series. They lost 11-4 and 5-3. Northeastern isn't doing this with wild recruiting or gobs of NIL cash. Aside from freshman reliever Angel Cruz, who has made one appearance this spring, every player on the team is from either New York, New Jersey or New England. Four different players transferred up from Division III schools, including Jordan Gottesman, a left-handed starter who leads the team in strikeouts. Jack Goodman and Harrison Feinberg, two of the team's top batters, left the region to play on the west coast (Pepperdine and Southern California, respectively), transferred back home and are currently raking (24 home runs, 108 RBI between them). This is all remarkable, but not entirely unexpected. Northeastern is headed to its fourth NCAA tournament in the last six years it's been held (excluding 2020 thanks to Covid-19). The 2021 team went 20-3 in CAA play. The 2023 squad went 44-14. Head coach Mike Glavine -- a NU alum and, yep, brother of Tom -- has built a sustainable regional powerhouse. Northeastern is aiming for more. Those tournament invites resulted in zero wins, leaving the Huskies with little more than a participation trophy despite their place as a three-seed in each of those brackets. Four of their six NCAA Tournament losses have come by at least five runs. 2025 offers catharsis. Other Husky teams have been good. This one is at the threshold of greatness. 11 more wins in a row would give Northeastern the record for Division I baseball's longest winning streak. It would also rocket the program to a CAA tournament title, through the regional, past the Super Regional and into the College World Series final. That's asking a lot for a team that's only played 11 games against quadrant 1 or 2 competition (and has seen five of its nine losses come against them). But Northeastern's entire 2025 has been about beating the odds... and beating the brakes off its opponents.
Washington Post
08-03-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
Northeastern faces Hampton in CAA Tournament
Hampton Pirates (16-15, 8-10 CAA) vs. Northeastern Huskies (17-14, 9-9 CAA) Washington; Saturday, 6 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Huskies -1; over/under is 137 BOTTOM LINE: Northeastern takes on Hampton in the CAA Tournament. The Huskies' record in CAA play is 9-9, and their record is 8-5 against non-conference opponents. Northeastern has a 4-2 record in games decided by less than 4 points.
