BOSTON -- Northeastern University baseball (20-15) heads to Brighton on Tuesday night for the Baseball Beanpot Championship, facing No. 24 Boston College (26-12) at Eddie Pellagrini Diamond at Harrington Athletics Village with a first pitch set for 6 p.m. The Huskies are chasing their third consecutive Beanpot title, a feat that has not been accomplished since 2017.
THREE THINGS TO KNOW:
1. LAST TIME OUT: Northeastern went 3-1 in its four-game home stand against Merrimack (MAAC) and Maine (America East) at Friedman Diamond over the weekend. The Huskies opened Friday in dramatic fashion, rallying from an 8-1 fourth-inning deficit to defeat the Warriors 11-10 in 12 innings. CAA Player of the Week Harrison Feinberg delivered a three-run home run in the eighth to tie the game at nine, and AJ Aschettino plated Ryan Gerety with a walk-off sacrifice fly in the twelfth to complete the comeback. Feinberg finished with four RBI on the day. The Huskies then swept the Warriors on Saturday morning, 9-2, before splitting with Maine — falling 5-0 in the Saturday afternoon meeting, and closing the weekend with a 13-5 win over Maine on Sunday, with Matthew Sapienza earning the victory on the mound and four homers from Feinberg (3) and Carter Bentley.
2. HOW WE GOT HERE: Boston College advanced to the championship with an 11-1 run-rule win over UMass on April 7th at Harrington Athletics Village, using a five-run first inning and a season-high nine stolen bases to pull away from the Minutemen. One day later, Northeastern punched its own ticket with a 4-1 victory over Harvard at O'Donnell Field, as Andrew Basel delivered a dominant five-inning start — allowing just one run while striking out six and escaping a bases-loaded jam in the third — and a trio of relievers combined to retire the final 12 outs. The Huskies manufactured all four runs on just three hits, with Charlie Criscola and Carmelo Musacchia delivering back-to-back RBI singles in a three-run second inning and Feinberg plating an insurance run in the fourth after Gerety stole both second and third.
3. REMATCH WITH THE EAGLES: The two programs met earlier this season on March 24th at Friedman Diamond, with Boston College coming away with a 3-2 victory in a tightly contested midweek game. The Eagles struck first in the second, but Feinberg's RBI single in the third tied it at one. BC retook the lead in the fifth on an RBI single through the left side and added an insurance run in the ninth on a sacrifice bunt. Northeastern mounted a ninth-inning rally — Chris Walsh drove home a run on an RBI single to pull within 3-2 — but the tying run was stranded at second. Cooper Maher allowed just one earned run over four innings but was saddled with the loss. Northeastern will look to bounce back against the now-ranked Eagles on their home turf in Brighton.
