BOSTON -- The Northeastern University baseball team (25-17, 15-6 CAA) heads out on its second to last road trip of the regular season this week, beginning with a midweek game at Maine on Tuesday, April 29th in Portland, Maine at Hadlock Field, before traveling to West Long Branch, New Jersey for a three-game CAA North Division series against Monmouth, with games Friday, May 1st through Sunday, May 3rd. Wednesday's game can be seen on ESPN+, and the weekend series can be seen on FloCollege.
THREE THINGS TO KNOW:
1. LAST TIME OUT: Northeastern took the series at home against Hofstra last weekend, going 2-1 at Friedman Diamond to extend the Huskies' advantage in the all-time series to 62-31. In Friday's opener, Robbie O'Connor delivered another sharp start with Andrew Rogovic and David McSweenrey closing it out, after the Huskies exploded for seven runs in the sixth and eighth innings combined. Luc Rising was brilliant in game two, allowing just one earned run on six hits with nine strikeouts, and Andrew Wertz locked down in relief, halting a late Hofstra rally with 2.2 innings of scoreless ball with five K's. Hofstra was able to spoil the sweep on Sunday, but the series win pushed Northeastern to 15-6 in CAA play and kept the Huskies in the hunt for the North Division title heading into the final stretch.
2. SCOUTING THE BLACK BEARS: Northeastern split the first meeting with Maine in two home games earlier this month, with the Black Bears taking the opener and the Huskies evening the series the following afternoon behind strong pitching outings from Ryan McCarroll and Matthew Sapienza. For Maine, that weekend series was one of the more competitive stretches in what has been an up-and-down 2026 campaign — the Black Bears pushed a streaking Northeastern club to a split, with their pitching holding the Huskies' offense in check through much of the first game. Tuesday's rematch in Portland offers the Huskies a chance to win the season series outright. Northeastern leads the all-time series 67-82 in what was a longtime America East rivalry — the first meeting between these two programs since 2014 before this season.
3. SCOUTING THE HAWKS: Monmouth was one of the top clubs in the CAA North when the Huskies hosted them at Friedman Diamond at the beginning of the month, and the Hawks have remained a factor in the division race since. In that series, Northeastern won game one behind another quality O'Connor start — with Cooper Maher earning the save — before Monmouth rallied in game two to tie the series. Ryan Griffin answered in the rubber match to take the series, holding the Hawks to just one run in six innings of work before the offense ended the game in the eighth with a 13-1 run rule victory with a walk off three-run homer from Matt Brinker. The two teams come into the weekend with identical CAA records, with Northeastern currently holding the tiebreaker due to its series win in the first weekend. Monmouth is coming off a two-game split with Rider at home, falling 14-4 in game one before bouncing back and winning 12-2 on Sunday.
