BROOKLINE, Mass. – The Northeastern Huskies (39-11) took a midweek home win against UMass Lowell (17-32) by a score of 6-4 at Friedman Diamond on Tuesday afternoon.
The Huskies jumped out to an early lead, and bounced back after the River Hawks tied the game in the sixth. Northeastern got big offensive days from
Justin Bosland (1-for-2, 2 RBI) and
Carmelo Musacchia (3-for-4, 2 2B, RBI). On the mound,
Patrick Harrington (W, 5-0) picked up the relief win, taking over in the sixth inning, and
Griffin Young (SV, 9) picked up a ninth-inning save.
- The Huskies jumped off to an early lead in the first inning, plating three runs in the opening frame on just one hit and an error.
- The first run of the game came from Tyler MacGregor, who reached third on a walk and two fielders' choices. Cam Maldonado stole second base, and the pitch was into the dirt and went to the backstop, allowing MacGregor to score on the passed ball.
- The dirt ball read was followed up by an RBI double from Carmelo Musacchia, scoring Maldonado from second.
- With the bases loaded, Justin Bosland earned his first RBI of the day when he was hit by a pitch, scoring Musacchia for the 3-0 lead.
- The River Hawks tied the game up in the top of the sixth with three unearned runs. An error, a groundout, and a single up the middle made it 3-3.
- In the bottom of the frame the Huskies answered back with two more runs – Jimmy Sullivan singled down the left field line and made it to third after throwing error by the catcher. He was scored by a bunt single by Justin Bosland to retake the lead, 4-3.
- With two outs, Danny Crossen added on an insurance run with a single, scoring Luke Masiuk who earlier reached on a walk.
- The Huskies loaded the bases in the bottom of the seventh on three walks, and Luke Beckstein wore a pitch to earn an RBI and another run for the Huskies, leading 6-3.
- A staff day on the mound saw a two-inning start from Jack Beahcuesne (3H, 0R), followed by two innings from Michael Gemma (0H, 0R, 2BB, K).
- The Huskies got another scoreless outing from Jordy Allard (1.0, 1H, 0R, 1BB, 1K), and Nick Davis took over in the sixth allowed just two hits and a walk in 0.2 innings.
- Harrington took over from there, going 1.1 with no hits, one walk, and a strikeout, allowing the Huskies to get back on top.
- In the eighth, James Quinlivan (1.0, 0H, 0R, 0BB) set up closer Griffin Young (1.0, 2H, 1R, 1K) for his ninth save.
- Northeastern improves to 18-3 at Friedman Diamond this season, 5-1 in midweeks at home.
The Huskies open up a three-game CAA series with Charleston this Thursday, May 18
th at 2:05 p.m. The game will broadcast on NESN and FloBaseball.
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