Box Score

Game 41: Beanpot Championship
Final Score	Northeastern 6, UMass 3 (W, Cook 2-0)
Records	NU 24-17 (8-10 CAA), UMass (10-25, 4-11 A-10)
Next Game	Tuesday, April 30 at Bryant (Smithfield, R.I.), 3:30 p.m.
Extras	Celebration: Beanpot Champions | Postgame Interviews

BOSTON – Rob Fonseca sent a fourth-inning blast into the seats above the Green Monster and Matt Cook pitched four innings of one-hit ball in relief of starter Isaac Lippert as the Northeastern baseball team clinched their first Beanpot championship since 2009 with a 6-3 win over the UMass Minutemen in front of 1,563 at Fenway Park.
 
With the win, the Huskies (24-17) avenged a first-round loss to the eventual champion Minutemen in the 2012 Beanpot. UMass moves to 10-25 on the season with the loss.
 
The Huskies flexed their muscle at the plate early Monday afternoon. Brad Burcroff crushed the first pitch he saw in the top of the first to deep left-center field. His blast one-hopped the wall, and Burcroff coasted into second with a stand-up double. His batting mates, however, were unable to get him across the plate.
 
The Minutemen followed with their own display of power. Dylan Begin took the first pitch he saw to start the second and put a dent more than halfway up the Green Monster left-center field. With Begin standing at second with a stand-up double, Kellen Pagel singled home Begin with the game's first run before John Jennings' loud out at the base of the warning track was caught by Burcroff to end the frame.
 
The following inning, UMass added another run to take a 2-0 lead midway through the third. After getting two quick outs by way of strikeout, Lippert allowed a single to Rob McLam, who moved to second on an error. Two batters later, Begin unloaded another shot off the wall for his second double of the day to drive in McLam.
 
The Huskies then exploded for four runs in the bottom of the fourth to take a sudden 4-2 lead. After taking a strikeout in his first at-bat, Fonseca took an Aaron Plunkett offering and sent it into the first row of the Monster seats for his second blast of the season, cutting the Minutemen lead in half.
 
Following a walk to Foster and a single by Puttress, Castoldi got in on the action, scraping a shot off the top-half of the monster to score Foster with the tying run. With runners on second and third, Sean Lyons then sent a sacrifice fly to right to score Puttress, and Castoldi trotted home on a wild pitch to give Northeastern the 4-2 advantage.
 
Cook, who relieved Lippert after the third inning, allowed only a lone single in the fifth inning as he tallied four innings of shutout ball, dishing only one walk while striking out three.
 
With Cook dealing on the hill, the Huskies were looking to pad their lead in the bottom of the sixth. With a man on first and no outs, Connor Lyons put a charge into a pitch and sent it towards the triangle in center field, but UMass' Rich Graef made a spectacular over-the-shoulder snag to prevent a would-be run.
 
Foster then stole second, and following a hit-by-pitch to Puttress, the Huskies execute a successful double steal to put two runners in scoring position with one out. With Foster breaking for home on contact, a Castoldi dribbler to first was enough to net Northeastern's fifth run of the evening, giving the Huskies a 5-2 lead after six.
 
The Minutemen would cut their deficit to two in the top half of the eighth. McLam singled and advanced to second on a wild pitch by Foster, who shifted over from second to relieve Cook. With two outs, a Nik Campero single up the middle brought home McLam, cutting Northeastern's lead to two.
 
Foster then got Pagel to commit on a check swing for strike three to escape further damage in the eighth.
 
The Huskies brought their lead back to three in the bottom half of the frame. Fonseca reaches second on a double down the left-field line and advanced to third on a successful bunt attempt by Foster. With runners at the corners and no outs, Connor Lyons sent a grounder to the right side of the infield, scoring Fonseca on the fielder's choice at second to push the Northeastern lead back to three.
 
Foster returned for the ninth, and earned the save by striking out three of the five batters he faced to bring the baseball Beanpot back to Huntington Ave.
 
The Huskies waste no time getting back on the diamond, as they head to Bryant for a date with the Bulldogs tomorrow afternoon in Smithfield, Rhode Island. First pitch is at 3:30 p.m.