BROOKLINE, Mass. – In a near-perfect game for starting pitcher Max Gitlin, the Northeastern Huskies (15-8) took down the UConn Huskies (10-13) by a score of 3-0 on Wednesday afternoon at Friedman Diamond.
 
Gitlin made it to the ninth inning with no base runners allowed, with the only blemish on his line ending up as a one-out double in the final inning. Gitlin bounced back to induce a pop out and a fly out to finish the complete game shutout, his first complete game effort as a Northeastern Husky. 
 

• Northeastern struck first in the third inning, after lead off walks to Cam Maldonado and Jack Goodman, a sacrifice bunt from Ryan Gerety put them into scoring position with just one out.
• With Maldonado on third, Harrison Feinberg hit a ball high and deep to left center that was caught, but was deep enough for Maldonado to tag up and score.
• The Huskies added two more runs in the fourth on a bunt single from Carmelo Musacchia, that was thrown away past first base and allowed Jack Doyle to score from second and Eric Cha to score from first for the 3-0 lead.
• Gitlin worked all nine innings on 116 pitches, the 10^th complete game of his career, throwing nine complete games at Clark University. He got 13 fly outs and 13 ground outs from his defense, and one strike out.
• It's Northeastern's second complete game shutout of the season, and both have occurred in the last three games, after Aiven Cabral through a seven-inning 10-0 complete game shutout against Towson.
• Gitlin has Northeastern's first nine-inning complete game performance since Cabral's 2023 nine-inning outing against Delaware (W, 9-0).
• The Huskies have shut out six teams this season, which is good for first in the nation as of the final out.
• It's the third game of the season in which Northeastern held the opposing offense to just one hit – the other two were against Indiana State (2/22) and Towson (3/22). It was the fourth game of the year that the Husky pitching staff walked no batters.

 
 
The Huskies head to Stony Brook, New York this weekend for a three-game series with the Seawolves in CAA play. That series kicks off on Friday, March 28^th at 2 p.m. on FloCollege.