BROOKLINE, Mass. – The Northeastern University baseball team (12-10) fell to Boston College (17-8), 3-2, on a chilly Tuesday afternoon at Friedman Diamond. Northeastern was held to just four hits in the narrow defeat, despite a ninth-inning RBI by Chris Walsh. Cooper Maher (2-1) took the loss despite allowing just one earned run over four innings of work.

• Boston College struck first in the second inning, using a leadoff double and an RBI groundout to take a 1-0 lead. The Huskies answered in the third when Anthony Ruggiero singled through the right side and Chris Walsh drew a walk to set the table. After Ryan Gerety loaded the bases with a walk, Harrison Feinberg singled to shallow right field to plate Ruggiero and tie the game at one. Northeastern appeared poised for more with runners on second and third, but a wild pitch resulted in Walsh being thrown out at the plate, and Carmelo Musacchia struck out to strand two.
• The Eagles reclaimed the lead in the fifth, stringing together a walk and two singles to push across a run and make it 2-1. BC added an insurance run in the ninth on a sacrifice bunt that plated a pinch runner from third to extend the lead to 3-1.
• Trailing by two in the bottom of the ninth, AJ Aschettino drew a four-pitch walk and was bunted to second by Carter Bentley. After Ruggiero was hit by a pitch, Walsh came through with an RBI single through the left side to pull the Huskies within one at 3-2 — but BC's closer struck out Gerety swinging to end the game with the tying run at second base.
• Andrew Basel started for Northeastern and tossed three solid innings, allowing one run on two hits with two strikeouts. Maher settled in after Basel, working four frames and scattering four hits. Matthew Sapienza threw a clean eighth inning before Andrew Rogovic worked the ninth. Bentley swiped two bases on the afternoon to push his season total to nine.
• The Eagles' pitching staff combined to strike out 16 Huskies, and took their first win at Friedman Diamond since the 2022 season.

The Huskies travel to UMass Lowell on Wednesday for a 4 p.m. first pitch at LeLacheur Park.