No. 19 Northeastern Baseball Faces Mississippi State In Tallahassee Regional

5/29/2025

BOSTON - The No. 19 Northeastern University baseball team (48-9) begins NCAA Tournament play this Friday evening, May 30th against Mississippi State (34-21) at Dick Howser Stadium in the 2025 NCAA Tallahassee Regional. Game time for NU's first game of the tourney is 7:30 p.m. on ESPN+.

THREE THINGS TO KNOW:

1. ABOUT THE TOURNAMENT

Northeastern is making its 11th all-time program appearance in the NCAA Baseball Tournament, its third in the last five seasons. Head coach Mike Glavine has been at the helm for four of NU's 11 trips to the tourney, including the program's only two at-large bids (2018, 2023). While the Huskies own a 6-20 record all-time in the tournament, Northeastern is looking for its first NCAA Tournament win since 1997, against Bethune-Cookman, which also finds itself in the 2025 Tallahassee Regional. It'll be Northeastern's first match up with Mississippi State all-time in program history, and the Huskies will either face another first-time match up in No. 6 Florida State, or just the third ever match up with Bethune-Cookman on Saturday.

2. HOW THEY GOT HERE

For the first time since 2021, the Northeastern Huskies have won the Coastal Athletic Association Tournament title, with a come-from-behind victory over UNCW in the championship game, winning 9-6. It marked the second straight season that a top-2 seed swept the conference tournament with a 3-0 record, with #2 UNCW achieving that same feat in 2024. It was Northeastern's best CAA Tournament showing, with their last conference tournament featuring a 4-1 record and a brief trip to the loser's bracket. The Huskies were down 6-3 in the eighth inning when a pair of singles by Jack Doyle and Ryan Gerety led off the inning, followed by a hit-by-pitch to Cam Maldonado to load the bases with no outs. Harrison Feinberg laced a double into right-center field, scoring all three runners to tie the game at 6-6. The Huskies would then take the lead on a two-RBI double by Carmelo Musacchia, and would get a huge one-inning save from Brett Dunham, his second of the tournament, to clinch the CAA title.
The Mississippi State Bulldogs have been on a tear as of late, finishing the season 9-1 in their last 10, and despite a one-and-done in the SEC Tournament, earned another at large bid to the NCAA tourney with an RPI of 35, and an overall record of 34-21, and 15-15 in SEC play.

3. CHAMPIONSHIP HONORS

Five Huskies earned All-Championship honors from the CAA for their performances last weekend in the CAA Tournament - Brett Dunham earned All-Tournament Team honors for his back-to-back one-inning saves, along with Friday's starter Jordan Gottesman (7.0, 2H, 1R, 12K), second baseman Carmelo Musacchia (5 hits, 2 homers, 6 RBIs), and right fielder Ryan Gerety (7 hits, 4 runs). Harrison Feinberg was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player, finishing the tourney with nine RBIs (team-high) batting .500 for the weekend. He belted a team-high four homers in the tournament, including two with six RBIs in Northeastern's come-from-behind CAA Championship win over #2 seed UNCW. He tied the game in the bottom of the eighth inning with a three-RBI double to right-center, and scored the go-ahead run on a Carmelo Musacchia RBI double.

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