The Series:               Towson (21-30, 8-19 CAA) vs. Northeastern (32-18, 20-7 CAA)
When:                        Thursday, May 14 at 3 p.m.
                                    Friday, May 15 at 3 p.m.
                                    Saturday, May 16 at 2 p.m.
Where:                       Brooks Robinson Field at John B. Schuerholz Park | Towson, Md.
Live Stats:                TowsonTigers.com
Stream:                     FloCollege Baseball
 
TOWSON, Md. – The Towson University baseball team hosts Northeastern in the final series of the regular season starting Thursday at 3 p.m. Friday and Saturday's games are slated for 3 p.m. and 2 p.m., respectively.
 
The games will stream live on FloCollege Baseball. Live stats can be found at TowsonTigers.com.
 
For fans coming to Thursday's or Friday's games, see the attached parking flyer for information regarding parking availability in the Towsontown Garage.

The coaching staff will host a pregame ceremony prior to Saturday's game at 1:20 p.m. to honor the senior class.
 
SCOUTING THE HUSKIES
Northeastern enters the series at 32-18 overall and 20-7 in conference play. The Huskies have won seven of their last eight games and 12 of their last 14. The Huskies sit atop the table in the North Division, two games up on the Monmouth Hawks.
 
Senior outfielder Harrison Feinberg is slashing .352/.461/.643 with 12 doubles, 15 home runs, 60 RBIs and 56 runs scored. On the mound, Luc Rising sports a 5-4 record with 2.69 ERA, 65 strikeouts and just 16 walks in 67.0 innings pitched.
 
LAST TIME OUT
On Tuesday, UMBC opened the game with one run in the first, then fell behind 3-1 following Keldrin Rodriguez's homer in Towson's half of the inning. The Tigers pushed their lead to three in the second inning before spotting the Retrievers five runs in the fourth, which put UMBC ahead 6-4. Down 8-5 with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, K. Rodriguez came to the plate and hit a home run to right field, his second of the day, to secure a 9-8 walk-off victory at Brooks Robinson Field at John B. Schuerholz Park.
 
Towson senior Josh Janove accomplished a feat not seen often as he played nine positions in a nine-inning Division I baseball game. After starting the game at catcher, Janove moved around the infield inning by inning before making his way to the outfield grass. He played in left, center and right in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings before taking the mound in the ninth.

After retiring his first batter faced, he allowed two runners to reach base and was relieved of his pitching duties. He is the first Division I baseball player to play nine positions since Texas' Jake McKenzie did on April 18, 2018, in the Longhorns' 20-5 win over UTRGV, and is one of only a handful to ever accomplish the feat.
 
WEEKLY HONORS
Brian Heckelman earned CAA Co-Player of the Week honors on April 6 after batting .500 (5-for-10) with a double, three home runs, five RBIs and five runs scored in the Tigers' series win over Hofstra at John B. Schuerholz Park.
 
The senior catcher was 3-for-5 with a double and a two-run shot in Thursday's 9-6 win and belted a game-tying solo shot in the 8th on Friday. He smacked a 2-run homer in the first on Saturday as the Tigers won 8-6 to take the series.
 
CAA PRESEASON HONORS
The Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) released its 2026 preseason All-CAA baseball team on Feb. 4. Two Tigers, Heckelman and outfielder Max D'Alessandro, garnered preseason team selections.
 
In 2025, Heckelman paced the Black & Gold offense in batting average (.365), on-base percentage (.442), slugging percentage (.588), RBIs (42), extra-base hits (20) and total bases (100). The backstop caught runners stealing at a 22.8% (18-79) clip. His 2025 numbers earned the New York native a 2025 All-CAA first team selection, Towson's first since Brady Policelli was named first team all-conference shortstop in 2016.
 
D'Alessandro slashed .312/.398/.529 with 34 RBIs and 35 runs scored in his junior campaign with the Tigers. He paced the team with nine home runs, adding eight doubles and a triple. The New Jersey native was a perfect 5-5 on the base paths and earned an All-CAA honorable mention nod by the season's end.
 
THE NEWCOMERS
The Tigers welcome 18 newcomers to this season's squad, 15 transfers and three true freshmen.
 
Highlighting the transfer group is infielder Nigel Sebastianelli, who earned an NJCAA Div. III Baseball ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove award, at SUNY Niagara last season. Sebastianelli recorded a .937 fielding percentage and committed only eight errors in 127 chances across 47 games in 2025. He batted .468 with two home runs, 15 doubles, six triples, 53 RBIs and 73 runs scored. Sebastianelli also garnered NJCAA Div. III first team and second-team All-Western New York Athletic Conference selections.
 
Jack Hughes, an NJCAA Div. II second-team All-American at Lackawanna College last season, is another focal piece of the transfer class. Hughes finished the 2025 season slashing .433/.567/.773 with 10 home runs, 19 doubles, one triple, 54 RBIs and 56 runs scored in 46 games for the Falcons. Hughes was a first-team All-Region XIX selection and the Region XIX Player of the Year.
 
Other notable transfers include infielder Frank Adamski Jr. and outfielder Keldrin Rodriguez from Harford, pitcher Joey Tuttoilmondo from High Point and pitcher Aden Knowles from NC State.
 
RECORD SCRATCHED
In Towson's opening series of the season, the Tigers scored 15 runs in the fifth inning of game two of Saturday's doubleheader against Norfolk State. That marks a new program record for runs in an inning.
 
The previous record was 14 runs scored in the first inning against Richmond on April 5, 2005. Towson's 28 runs in the game fell two short of matching the all-time record set in the same game.
 
In the same game, D'Alessandro set the individual single game run record with five runs scored against the Spartans. He is the tenth player in program history to score five runs in a game and the most recent since Hunter Bennett did so vs. Delaware in 2014.
 
LEAGUE'S ORDER OF FINISH
With the Coastal Athletic Association's (CAA) adoption of divisional formatting in baseball for the 2026 season, Towson is in the North Division with Hofstra, Monmouth, Northeastern and Stony Brook.
 
The South Division is comprised of Campbell, Charleston, Elon, North Carolina A&T, UNCW and William & Mary.
 
In the league's predicted order of finish, the Tigers finished tied for second, with one first-place vote, in the North Division. Northeastern received four first-place votes and 16 total points. Towson, Hofstra and Stony Brook each finished with nine points. Monmouth was picked to finish fifth with seven points.
 
In the South Division, UNCW finished atop the standings with three first-place votes. Charleston (2) and Campbell (1) each earned first-place votes in second and third, respectively. Elon, William & Mary and North Carolina A&T rounded out the southern group.
 
CELEBRATING 25 YEARS AT JOHN B. SCHUERHOLZ PARK
The 2026 season marks the 25^th anniversary of the opening of John B. Schuerholz Park on April 29, 2001.
 
Schuerholz Park is named in honor of Mr. Schuerholz and his father. Honored as Towson's Alumnus of the Year in 1986, he was the general manager of the Kansas City Royals from 1981 to 1991 and led the Royals to the world championship in 1985. He joined the Braves organization in 1991 and led the Braves to the 1995 World Series title. In 16 years as the Braves' general manager, Atlanta won a record 14-straight divisional titles as well as six National League pennants and one World Series.
 
He was honored as the Major League's Executive of the Year in 1985, an award he also earned with the Braves in 1991. Schuerholz is the first baseball executive to be the general manager of world championship teams in both the American League and the National League.
 
2025 RECAP
Towson finished its 2025 season at 21-35 overall and 11-16 in Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) play, two games out of a spot in the CAA Championship. Four Tigers received all-league honors: catcher Brian Heckelman (first team), pitcher Nate Nabholz (second team), outfielder Max D'Alessandro (honorable mention) and infielder Nich Francuzenko (All-Rookie).