Feinberg Powers Northeastern Past UNCW, 9-6, To Capture 2025 CAA Baseball Championship
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MT. PLEASANT, S.C. (May 24, 2025) – Junior Harrison Feinberg homered twice and drove in six, including a game-tying three-run double in the eighth, as top-seeded Northeastern battled past No. 2 UNCW, 9-6, to capture the 2025 CAA Baseball Championship on Saturday evening at the Ballpark at Patriots Point.
The Huskies (48-9), who extended the nation’s longest winning streak to 27 games and broke the CAA record for victories in a season (48), earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Baseball Championship. It was the second CAA title for Northeastern and first since 2021.
UNCW (34-24), which reached the CAA championship game for the ninth time in the past 10 years, finished the season with a 34-24 record.
Feinberg, who was chosen as the Most Outstanding Player, was 3-for-4 and scored three times in the finale and finished the tournament with four homers and nine RBI’s in three games. Ryan Gerety was also 3-for-4 and scored a run against the Seahawks.
Eight of UNCW’s nine hits in the game went for extra bases. First baseman Tanner Thach homered twice and knocked in three, shortstop Kevin Jones was 2-for-4 with a double, homer and three RBI’s and catcher Bryan Arendt doubled twice.
Trailing 6-3 in the bottom of the eighth, Northeastern caught fire offensively. The Huskies opened the inning with back-to-back singles from Jack Doyle and Gerety, and a walk to Cam Maldonado loaded the bases. Feinberg cleared the deck with a double into the gap in right-center, tying the game at 6-6. After a UNCW error, Carmelo Musacchia lined a two-run double to left-center, giving Northeastern its first lead of the contest. Matt Brinker’s sacrifice fly brought in Musacchia for the final tally.
Brett Dunham worked a scoreless ninth for NU to earn his second save in as many days. Jack Bowery (3-1) picked up the win in relief.
UNCW got off to a fast start, grabbing a 3-0 lead in the second. Arendt opened the frame with a double and Aidan Evans walked. Jones followed by belting his fifth homer of the season over the wall in left.
After being held to a pair of singles over the first three frames, Northeastern used the long ball to get on the board in the fourth. Feinberg led off the frame with a solo shot to left, cutting the deficit to 3-1.
The teams exchanged two-run homers in the middle innings. Thach cleared the wall in the fifth to make it 5-1 before Feinberg answered with his second blast of the game to trim the gap back to two.
Thach smacked his second homer of the day and team-leading 12th of the year to put the Seahawks ahead 6-3 in the seventh before the Huskies rallied in the eighth.
UNCW got a solid pitching performance from sophomore right-hander Aubrey Smith. Making just his second start of the year, he held the Huskies to three runs over the first seven innings and fanned six before getting into trouble in the eighth.
CAA All-Tournament Team
Bryan Arendt, UNCW
Jake Brink, Charleston
Brett Dunham, Northeastern
Harrison Feinberg, Northeastern
Ryan Gerety, Northeastern
Jordan Gottesman, Northeastern
Dylan Johnson, Charleston
Carmelo Musacchia, Northeastern
Aubrey Smith, UNCW
Zane Taylor, UNCW
Tanner Thach, UNCW
Most Outstanding Player: Harrison Feinberg, Northeastern
