In its first-ever home February games and first home opener since 1996, the Stony Brook baseball team won two of three games against the Sacred Heart Pioneers from Friday, Feb. 26 to Sunday, Feb. 28.
Head coach Matt Senk believes the world never got a chance to see the Stony Brook baseball team at its best last season. The season was canceled before conference play could begin.
After winning the opening match and dropping the middle game, the Stony Brook baseball team secured their first series victory of the season by winning a rubber match on Sunday, March 8.
In their final Southern road trip of the season, the Stony Brook baseball team returned to Hammond, Louisiana for a second straight year and lost two of three from Friday, Feb. 28 to Sunday, March 1, completing the opening 10-game stretch with a 2-8 record.
The Seawolves outhit the Tigers in the final two games, but could not make the most of their opportunities as they stranded 26 men on base and fell to 1-6 on the season.
Stony Brook makes its return to Joe Nathan Field on Saturday, Mar. 7 for their home opener — a doubleheader against the CCSU Blue Devils. The hunt for a second straight America East championship is on all the Seawolves’ minds, and they believe they have what it takes to come out on top yet again.
A pair of 1-run losses led to disappointment for Stony Brook, who won just one in the 4-game series that took place from Friday, Feb. 14 to Sunday, Feb. 16.
Stony Brook had crawled back from a deficit to tie the game against the UMass Lowell River Hawks, and a single run would grant the Seawolves the 2019 America East regular season title.
Splitting the first two games on Friday, Feb. 22 and Saturday, Feb. 23, the Seawolves dropped the finale on Sunday, Feb. 24 and walked away with a 3-3 overall record.
