While we may be five and a half months from the start of the 2025 college baseball season, Fall ball is underway. The first order of business for the UMass Lowell River Hawks was the naming of Captains for the new season. On Monday, head coach Nick Barese named the two players who will lead […]
Last week we took a look at how the UMass Lowell River Hawks baseball players were doing in the Futures League. This week, it’s the New England Collegiate Baseball League. There are 13 teams in the league and on Sunday, the league held its annual All-Star game in Connecticut. So the league has a couple […]
The second half of the Futures League summer collegiate baseball schedule is under way. There are several members of the UMass Lowell River Hawks baseball team playing in this league. In part two of our tracking how they are doing this summer, we thought we would check in on their progress so far. The Nashua […]
Friday afternoon saw the end of the college baseball regular season for both UMass Lowell (23-29) and Marist College (18-33). The two teams split a doubleheader at Lelacheur Park, with the River Hawks taking game one 7-2. The Red Foxes came back to take game 2 7-3. Both teams used their rosters to complete the […]
What a difference a day makes. On Friday afternoon, the UMass Lowell River Hawks (22-26, 11-11) had a difficult time throwing strikes to NJIT (20-25, 9-10) hitters. Eleven walks, seven from the River Hawks bullpen, tell the story. On Saturday afternoon, a much different performance by the pitching staff led to a River Hawks victory […]
In the world of small conference mid-major college baseball, bullpens are a big factor in how good or bad teams do. In the case of the UMass Lowell River Hawks (21-26, 10-11), it is starting to become the one thing that is stopping this team from becoming a really good baseball team. In 4.2 innings […]
Sunday afternoon at Lelacheur Park, saw the UMass Lowell River Hawks (19-22, 9-8) in a bit of a hole late in the game. UMBC (18-19, 8-7) looked like they had a stranglehold on the game that would have given them a much-needed conference road series win. UMass Lowell head coach Nick Barese called the troops […]
If you like pitchers duels then Friday afternoon at Lelacheur Park was your kind of game. The UMass Lowell River Hawks (18-21, 8-7) behind a completed game gem by sophomore Michael Simes (2-2) defeated UMBC (17-18, 7-6) by a 2-0 score in a game that took two hours and a minute to play. Simes had […]