Baseball in CAA Playoffs

[HUSID74]

Amazing to me that no one has posted about this team all year. Quietly this team has played very compeitive baseball qualifying for the CAA playoffs.
We open against Charleston today at 12 noon.
Go Pride!

[triplec2195]

I don't follow our baseball team as much as I should and they have good local talent. Today they beat Charleston 13-0 on 11 hits. They had two 6 run innings. A nice way to start the tourney.

[EvanJ]

It ended in 7 innings due to the mercy rule. 6 seed UNCW, who is hosting, defeated 3 seed Monmouth 5-0. Mason Ruh, who did not pitch more than 3 innings in a regular season game, pitched a shutout with 1 hit allowed. Monmouth's hit started the second inning, so nobody was thinking about a no hitter. UNCW had the better RPI. We play Northeastern tomorrow (May 21) at 7:00 P.M. We are 150th in the RPI, and Northeastern is 96th. Charleston had a better overall and CAA record, but they are 158th in the RPI, so both of today's games had the worse seed have the better RPI. It was our first postseason shutout. Charleston's starter allowed 7 runs including 6 unearned runs. Tomorrow has three games. At 11:00 A.M., Charleston plays Monmouth, and the loser is the first team eliminated to make five teams left. At 3:00 P.M. Campbell plays UNCW. If we beat Northeastern our game after that will be Friday (May 22) against the winner of Campbell vs. UNCW at 7:00 P.M. If we lose to Northeastern and Campbell defeats UNCW, we will be the better seed of the Games 4 and 5 losers, which would let us skip Game 6 and play Game 7 on Friday at 3:00 P.M. If we lose to Northeastern and UNCW defeats Campbell, we will be the worse seed of the Games 4 and 5 losers, which would make us play Game 6 on Friday at 11:00 A.M., and then again at 3:00 P.M. if we win Game 6. Since we play last tomorrow, we will start the game knowing what happens if we win and what happens if we lose. https://caasports.com/tournaments/?id=263 is about the Tournament.

https://gohofstra.com/news/2026/5/20/ba ... nship.aspx is our recap titled "Hofstra Blanks Charleston In Opening Game Of CAA Championship."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avy9mVthWZg is highlights by us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2B6-zdjSE0 is highlights by the CAA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV6-Xzo9l4c is an interview with Coach Frank Catalanotto, who had 1,113 MLB hits.

[EvanJ]

3 seed Monmouth defeated 4 seed Charleston 7-2, and Charleston is eliminated. Charleston led 2-0 after two and a half innings. 1 seed Campbell defeated 6 seed UNCW 3-1. That means that if we beat Northeastern, we play Campbell tomorrow (Friday) at 7:00 P.M., and if we lose to Northeastern, we play the winner of Monmouth vs. UNCW tomorrow at 3:00 P.M., which will be our opponent's second game of the day and our only game of the day.

https://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=660435 will have statistics for our game against Northeastern.

[stuball888]

There must be something in the water at UNCW
After beating number four, Charleston 13-0
We just beat number two Northeastern by score of 6-0

[EvanJ]

We scored 3 in the top of the first to lead the whole game. Joseph Curreri got his first win.

Tomorrow at 7:00 P.M. we play 1 seed Campbell, and two more teams will be eliminated before then. We will be in the final three.

[Polito]

Well ok then, I don't follow our baseball much, but this is great to hear - look to be playing strong at the right time - this is a sport I've felt we don't really "need" at HU, just not great for northern weather and we'll never have what the south does, but hey it's still kicking so why not let's see a winner! Rooting them on for sure - still remember the stud run that SBU put together years ago, would take that for our HU fellas all day if they can continue the magic!

[HUSID74]

So far a great performance, two shutouts! I like this program...Catalanotto does a great job with not very much talent...they hustle, are aggressive and make the right plays.
All credit to the coach!
And Polito we did win the CAA acouple of years back...great run!

[stuball888]

Yes, I remember. I think we beat Northeastern if I'm not mistaken on a hit by pitch.

[HUSID74]

Yes, I remember. I think we beat Northeastern if I'm not mistaken on a hit by pitch.

The year was 2022, not so long ago.

[EvanJ]

It is raining in Wilmington. Today's first game was delayed from 11:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M., and weather.com says light rain at 2:00 P.M. and stopping after that. If all of today's games are delayed three hours, we will start at 10:00 P.M., and have to play at 1:00 P.M. if we lose. To avoid that, the CAA should do one of two things. They could rescheduled tomorrow's games from 1:00 P.M. and 5:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. and 8:00 P.M., or they could postpone what is supposed to be today's last game to tomorrow and postpone what is supposed to be tomorrow's last game to Sunday. They cannot play what is supposed to be today's last game tomorrow without postponing tomorrow's last game because one team could be in all three games.

The Selection Show is Monday at 12:00 P.M. on ESPN2.

Edit: It is after 2:30 P.M., and the first game has not started. I think the CAA should postpone our game.

Edit: The first game is now scheduled for 4:00 P.M. There was lightning.

Edit: The first game was changed to TBA. It is important to get at least some of today's games in because a team cannot play three games in one day, and the Tournament needs to end before the Selection Show. For an outdoor sport like Baseball, I think it would be a good idea to have the Selection Show two days after conference tournaments end so that tournaments can end one day late if there is rain. weather.com says Wilmington is mostly cloudy and humid, but not raining.

[stuball888]

Looks like all the games were canceled. We don't play until 7 PM tomorrow night.

[stuball888]

Correction, they are playing two games today, but we will still be playing tomorrow night

[EvanJ]

The CAA said tomorrow's schedule will be announced tonight, and we have to play tomorrow afternoon because other games depend on our game.

UNCW defeated Monmouth 6-1. Monmouth finished fifth. UNCW is playing Northeastern, with the loser finishing fourth, and the winner playing the loser of us or Campbell.

[EvanJ]

Northeastern defeated UNCW 7-3. UNCW finished fourth. The CAA has not announced tomorrow's schedule.

[EvanJ]

We play today at 11:00 A.M. The loser between us and Campbell plays Northeastern at 3:00 P.M., and the loser of that game is eliminated. If Northeastern wins that game, they play the winner between us and Campbell at 7:00 P.M. If Northeastern loses, today will have two games because a team cannot play three games in one day. Tomorrow could have zero, one, or two games.

The CAA linked to https://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=660782 for statistics for our game against Campbell, but that site has an error, which might have to do with the fact that the game was postponed from yesterday.

Edit: https://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=660792 has statistics. We are batting in the top of the fourth. It is 0-0, and we have no hits.

[EvanJ]

We trailed 4-0 and lost 5-3.

https://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=660793 will have our statistics for our game against 2 seed Northeastern. The loser finishes third. The winner must beat Campbell twice to win the Tournament. Campbell has two chances to win one game to win the Tournament.

[stuball888]

So it is possible that we will actually play four games today

[HofstraPride1]

So it is possible that we will actually play four games today

If Hofstra wins they play tomorrow against Campbell and would need to win twice.

[stuball888]

They might be early games like 11 o'clock and three because the selection show I believe is at 5 PM on Sunday. All tournaments have to be finished by then.