Merrimack Warriors baseball


The Merrimack Warriors baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, United States. The team competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I and is a member of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.

History

The Merrimack baseball program was started in 1980. They joined the Northeast-10 Conference in 1985. While the first few seasons were dismal, the 1988 season saw the team go 9-7 in the NE-10 and 24-15 overall but they finished it off with a win in the ECAC North tournament. This was their first winning season since their inaugural season. They would follow this up next season by going 19-17-2 overall and winning their second straight ECAC North tournament title.
Under head coach Ed Morrison, the Warriors won the NE10 tournament in 1990 as the 4th seed to clinch their first NE-10 title and reach the NCAA Division II Tournament for the first time in program history. Morrison left after the 1992 season and was replaced by Barry Rosen. The Warriors won the regular season title four straight years from 1994 to 1997, with a ECAC title occurring in 1995 to go along with NE-10 tournament championships in 1995 and 1996. They reached the NCAA Tournament in 1996 for the second time in program history. The 1999 team won their fifth regular season title and despite losing in the tournament final, they received an invite to the NCAA Tournament.
The team did not make a major run again until 2013, when they went 30-19 and made it to the NE10 championship final, losing to New Haven. The 2018 team beat New Haven to win the NE-10 title and make the NCAA Tournament for the first time in nearly two decades. In 2020, the Warriors joined NCAA Division I with the Northeast Conference. Their season was cut short after going 6–9 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, their first full season as a D-I program, they went 19–22. The 2024 team had their first winning season as a D-I program at 33–26 and advanced to their first NEC tournament and made it to the Semifinals before losing to Long Island.
In 2025, the Warriors joined the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.

Head Coaches

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Conference Memberships

Player/Coaches Awards

NEC">Northeast Conference">NEC Rookie of the year

  • Dawson Bryce

ECAC Rookie of the year

  • Dawson Bryce

NE10">Northeast-10 Conference">NE10 Player of the year

Source:
  • Jerry Parent
  • Casey Cotter
  • Frank Crinella
  • Joey Porricelli

NE10 Rookie of the year

  • George Evangelista
  • Jamie Newell
  • Frank Crinella

Bob Bellizzi NE10 Coach of the Year award

  • Ed Morrison

All Americans

  • David Miles
  • Jerry Parent
  • Chris MacDonald
  • Garret Larkin
  • David Melchionda
  • Joe Mantoni
  • Casey Cotter
  • Frank Crinella
  • Matthew Ronai
  • Joey Porricelli
  • Thomas Joyce

Merrimack Athletics hall of fame

The following is a list of people associated with the Merrimack men's Baseball program who were elected into the Merrimack college Athletic Hall of Fame

Postseason Results

Division II

Merrimack has participated in the NCAA Division II baseball tournament four times.

ECAC Tournament

The warriors appeared in the ECAC tournament 3 times and were victorious all 3 times.
YearCoachOverall recordResult
1988Ed Morrison24-15Champions
1989Ed Morrison19-17-1Champions
1995Barry Rosen28-13Champions