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It shows that we did things the right way-we play a really hard schedule, we play on the road, we’re not afraid to play anyone anywhere.” “But to come out of it as an at-large team is pretty special. “I’m really disappointed we didn’t win the conference tournament,” Glavine says. The Huskies learned Sunday that they had earned their second at-large NCAA tournament bid in six years.

Despite losing the automatic NCAA bid awarded to the conference champion, Glavine encouraged the Huskies to plan on qualifying for the national tournament based on the strength of their record-breaking season. The bounce-back win advanced the Huskies to the championship final for the fourth time in five years, where they fell short again to top-seeded Wilmington, 5-4, despite a three-run homer in the ninth by Mike Sirota. The support I got from my teammates in one of the toughest moments I’ve had in my career-they were able to pull me up from that. “To have the support that I get from those guys every day just gives me the confidence to go out there and come back even stronger.

Homer-hitting Huskies enter baseball postseason with dreams of NCAA bid Everybody was coming over and putting their arms around me. Every single guy was there to pick me up. “I wouldn’t blame anybody if they blamed me. “That meant everything,” Crossen says of his teammates’ support immediately after the error. The next day in the double-elimination tournament, Crossen went 4 for 6 with five RBIs and a homer in Northeastern’s 14-8 win over second-seeded Elon. But at the same time when someone’s down, everyone else is there to pick them up.” We love to go have fun and just be with the guys. “We’re all there for each other,” says senior shortstop Spenser Smith, the CAA defensive player of the year. Photos by Jim Pierce/Northeastern Athletics Photo by Jim Pierce/Northeastern Athletics Photo by Jim Pierce/Northeastern Athletics “We’ve got to believe that we can compete,” coach Mike Glavine says. In no time the Huskies’ leader was surrounded by teammates. He was helped to his feet by Northeastern closer Griffin Young, who had collided with Crossen in the aftermath near home plate. That confidence was strengthened in no small part by a traumatic play last Saturday involving Crossen, who dropped a difficult pop up in a swirling wind to score the walk-off run in North Carolina Wilmington’s 6-5 semifinal win in the Colonial Athletic Association tournament.Ĭrossen, devastated, knelt at home plate as the winners celebrated his misfortune. “We know we’re tough,” Northeastern senior third baseman Danny Crossen says.

Georges aftermath game series#

The winner of the double-elimination regional advances to the final 16-one step away from the eight-team College World Series held annually in Omaha, Nebraska. Photo by Jim Pierce/Northeastern Athletics Northeastern senior shortstop Spenser Smith (22) is the CAA’s defensive player of the year. The third-seeded Huskies (44-14) are in a four-team regional hosted by powerhouse Wake Forest (47-10)-top seed of the 64-team NCAA Division 1 Baseball Championship-which will take on fourth-seeded George Mason on Friday night. “We’ve got to go toe-to-toe with all three of these teams and believe that we can compete with them.” Friday in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (streaming on ESPN+). “It can’t be, ‘We’re happy to be there,’” says coach Mike Glavine, whose Huskies will be making their third NCAA appearance in six years when they meet No. The Huskies believe they’re on the verge of breaking through for Northeastern’s first victory in an NCAA baseball tournament regional.