The University of Maine\u2019s baseball team will play its first game at Delta Dental Park at Hadlock Field in Portland since 2012 when it takes on Northeastern University on Wednesday, April 29.<\/p>\n
First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. but it is subject to change.<\/p>\n
The home of the Boston Red Sox\u2019s AA affiliate, the Eastern League\u2019s Portland Sea Dogs, has been a good venue for the Black Bears.<\/p>\n
They beat Boston College 9-4 in 2012 and UMass 21-8 in 1998.<\/p>\n
Hadlock Field opened in 1994.<\/p>\n
The America East Black Bears and Coastal Athletic Association Huskies have met 31 times since 2000 with Northeastern holding a 19-12 advantage.<\/p>\n
It will be the third time they will meet this upcoming\u00a0season as UMaine will head to Boston to play Northeastern on April 11-12.<\/p>\n
They haven\u2019t played since 2014.<\/p>\n
Both teams have made NCAA Tournament appearances over the past three seasons with NU earning berths last year and 2023 and UMaine going in 2023.<\/p>\n
UMaine is coming off a 20-31 campaign while Northeastern set a school record for wins (49-11) and conference wins (25-2) last season.<\/p>\n
Northeastern is coached by Mike Glavine, brother of Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Glavine. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a big deal for us, the program, the state and everyone involved in Maine baseball,\u201d UMaine head coach Nick Derba said in a press release. \u201cI hope we can do this annually. We haven\u2019t done this in my entire time at Maine and it\u2019s something that we feel is important.\u201d <\/p>\n
Derba is entering his ninth season as head coach in Orono. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe represent this state as its only Division I program and for us to play at a different venue within our state and get in front of a new crowd is great,\u201d Derba said. \u201cI hope to see a huge turnout.\u201d<\/p>\n
UMaine has two players from the Portland area in Falmouth sophomore Brennan Rumpf and Scarborough freshman Erik Swenson. Both are right-handed pitchers.<\/p>\n
Swenson was the Maine Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year last year.<\/p>\n
Sea Dogs General Manager Jesse Scaglion said they are \u201cthrilled\u201d to have UMaine playing at Delta Dental Park.<\/p>\n
\u201cUMaine baseball has a rich history and tradition of excellence and we\u2019re proud to host a program that has produced so many outstanding student-athletes \u2013 including several who have gone on to wear a Sea Dogs uniform,\u201d Scaglion said. \u201cBringing college baseball to a professional ballpark is a great way to celebrate the game at every level.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tickets will go on sale on Friday, Jan. 30 at 9 a.m. and are available through the Portland Sea Dogs ticket office by calling 207-879-9500 or online at seadogs.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Maine\u2019s baseball team will play its first game at Delta Dental Park at Hadlock Field…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2289],"tags":[5,648,71764,1694,2341,71765],"class_list":["post-543083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-college-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-college-baseball","tag-hadlock-field","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-baseball","tag-umaine-baseball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}