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BROOKLINE, Mass. – Although hosting No. 15 College of Charleston was no easy task for the Northeastern baseball team on Senior Day, the Huskies still managed to close out the 2015 regular season with a valiant effort in an 8-2 loss to the nationally ranked Cougars on Saturday.
 
Prior to the game, NU officially dedicated the new John "Tinker" Connelly Pavilion at Friedman Diamond, ushering in a new era of Northeastern baseball. Nick Berger, Isaac Lippert, and Matt Cook, the three members of the Huskies' 2015 senior class, helped unveil the new stadium signage prior to being recognized on-field for their student-athlete careers.
 
Right fielder Pat Madigan led Northeastern (24-28, 14-10 CAA) with a double and two singles during the morning game, extending his hit streak to five consecutive games. Madigan finished the series against College of Charleston (41-11, 21-3 CAA) with four doubles and has now hit five two-baggers during his last four games.
 
Rob Fonseca wrapped up the 2015 regular season with a one-for-four showing at the plate, ripping an RBI double down the left-field line in the bottom of the first and later scoring to help NU claim an early 2-1 advantage. Center fielder Michael Foster went one-for-three with a walk out of the lead-off spot, scoring on Fonseca's first-inning double.
 
Catcher Josh Treff and third baseman Nolan Lang both fought for singles against Charleston's Brandon Glazer (10-1, 2.81 ERA), as NU pounded out seven hits, two fewer than the Cougars' nine.
 
With the No. 3 seed in the CAA tournament already clinched two days before, head coach Mike Glavine had the luxury of letting two of this three seniors shine in the spotlight during their final game at Friedman Diamond (Nick Berger had pitched Thursday). Cook, a five-year senior, made the first positional start of his career after spending the previous four seasons as a pitcher, while Lippert tossed 2.0 innings, relieving Brian Christian in the top of the fourth.
 
Glazer pitched 7.0 innings for Charleston, allowing two runs on six hits and striking out two. Ryan Brown did Christian in for two home runs during his first two at-bats of the game, while Carl Wise netted three RBIs courtesy of a three-run homer in the top of the ninth. Bradley Jones' bases-clearing triple in the fifth inning sent the Cougars in front for good with a 5-2 lead.
 
The Huskies fell behind during the very first at-bat of the day as Brown blasted a 3-2 pitch from Christian deep into the right-field bleachers. Despite the early deficit, Christian maintained his composure and struck out Alex Pastorius and Wise, back-to-back, before going on to strike out the Charleston side in the top half of the second.
 
Two batters after Foster had reached base with a walk in the bottom of the first, Fonseca crushed an RBI double down the left-field line and advanced to third base on a fielding miscue by the Cougars' left-fielder. With the game tied at 1-1, Hanley brought Fonseca home on a hardly hit ground ball to second, picking up his 28th RBI of the season as NU took a 2-1 lead.
 
Having retired eight straight batters after conceding a home run to Brown, the Charleston right-fielder tied the game at 2-2 courtesy of his second solo shot of the game. The Cougars would rally again in the top of the fourth, but shortstop Maxwell Burt helped initiate a 6-3 double play, throwing a meaningful two outs up on the scoreboard.
 
Northeastern had difficulty stringing hits together midway through the game as Foster and Treff were left stranded on the bases in the third and fourth inning, respectively. After NU turned its second double play of the game in the fifth in 3-6-3 fashion, Charleston orchestrated a two-out rally with the help of a double by Wise, a walk, and a hit-by-pitch. Jones proceeded to take a 1-1 pitch from Lippert off the wall in center field, giving the Cougars a 5-2 edge.
 
Nate Borges and Nick Cubarney combined to throw three consecutive scoreless and hitless innings during the sixth, seventh, and eighth, but the Huskies had trouble offering run support to cut into the Charleston lead. NU would put two runners on base after a seventh-inning single by Madigan and another single by Lang two batters later, but Cook and Burt were unable to bring the NU runners home.
 
Wise hammered a three-run homer to left field off Mike Driscoll in the top of the ninth to give Charleston a commanding, 8-2 edge, but the Huskies stranded Madigan at second during the home half of the frame.
 
For the time being, Northeastern will have to wait to see which CAA club it will draw in the first round of the conference tournament. The Huskies will play either No. 6 Towson or No. 6 William & Mary.