Season Concludes for Elon Baseball After Loss to Northeastern

MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – The Elon University baseball team saw its season come to an end on Wednesday night as the Phoenix was eliminated from the 2016 CAA Tournament by the Northeastern Huskies in a 3-0 contest.

Elon (25-29) got two hits apiece from Ryne Ogren and Nick Zammarelli as the maroon and gold out-hit Northeastern 5-3. Zammarelli’s eighth-inning double was his 24th of the season, matching the program’s single-season record set by Grant Rembert in 2004.

David Hopkins had two of the three Husky (30-26) hits, scored once and drove in one.

Despite not allowing an earned run, Jordan Barrett (3-6) took the loss. Barrett equaled his career-long outing, throwing 7.0 innings. He allowed two unearned runs on three hits and struck out six.

CAA Co-Pitcher of the Year Aaron Civale (9-3) also went 7.0 innings and allowed three hits, but did not allow a run. He struck out 10 to set a new Northeastern record for single-season strikeouts (121). Andrew Misiaszek threw the final 2.0 innings to pick up his second save of the year.

How It Happened: The game was scoreless until the last of the fifth when Northeastern pushed across two runs. A one-out error allowed Jake Farrell to reach before a two out walk and Hopkins single got the Huskies on the board. Charlie McConnell’s single would score the second run of the inning. Northeastern added one in the eighth on a bases-loaded walk.

Elon’s best scoring chance came in the top of the eighth. With one out, Ogren singled and Zammarelli doubled off the ivy on the left field fence. Misiaszek would then strike out the next two hitters to end the Phoenix threat.

Notes: Zammarelli and Ogren extended their streaks of reaching base safely to 24 and 23 games, respectively… Tyler McVicar’s streak of reaching safely was snapped at 25 games… In Elon’s four meetings with Northeastern in 2016, the Phoenix twice held the Huskies to three hits or less… For the first time in nearly 50 years (a three-year stretch from 1966-68), Elon finished back-to-back seasons with a losing record.