Baseball Hosts Merrimack, Heads to BC In Midweek Matchups

3/17/2025

BOSTON - The Northeastern Huskies (11-6) play a pair of local midweek games this Tuesday and Wednesday, March 18 and 19 as they host the Merrimack Warriors (5-13-1) on Tuesday and head on the road to play the Boston College Eagles (7-9) on Wednesday afternoon. Tuesday's home game will stream on FloCollege at 2:30 p.m. while Wednesday's game is set to air on ACC Network Extra at 3 p.m.

THREE THINGS TO KNOW

1. HOT HUSKIES

Northeastern has won seven of its last eight contests, recording back to back weekend sweeps over San Diego State (4-0) and Harvard (3-0). The Huskies opened up the home schedule with a strong showing against Harvard, outscoring their cross-town rivals 17-7 on the weekend, and the Northeastern pitching staff held Harvard to a team batting average of .175 on the weekend, as they combined for a 0.85 WHIP. Carmelo Musacchia led the Huskies on the weekend with a .417 batting average with a triple and a homer, and Ryan Gerety notched a two-homer game on Saturday, the first two home runs of his career, to break up a no-hitter and then to take the lead with an eighth-inning grand slam.

2. THE LAST TIME THEY MET

Northeastern and Merrimack last met in early March of last season, also at Friedman Diamond. Down 5-4 in the bottom of the sixth inning, the Huskies brought in five runs on four hits, two hit-by-pitches, and three walks to take the home win, 9-5.
Wednesday's matchup with BC will be the first meeting of the two clubs since the 2024 Baseball Beanpot Championship game, where the Huskies went to Brighton and claimed the Beanpot with a 7-0, one-hit victory over the Eagles last April.

3. GETTING IT DONE EARLY

Through the first five weekends of 2025, Northeastern pitching leads the CAA in four stat categories (and is second in four more) with several top-50 rankings in the NCAA. The Huskies lead the conference in K/BB ratio (2.71, 32nd in NCAA), shutouts (3, 7th in NCAA), WHIP (1.28, 30th in NCAA) and saves (7). The Huskies have also excelled in keeping the ball in the zone with a 3.43 walks per nine average, good for second in the CAA and 25th in the nation.

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