The River Hawks also return a talented sophomore class that played a major role in last season’s run, with conference award winners Brandon Fish, Jacob Humphrey and LJ Keevan donning the blue and white in the new campaign. UMass Lowell has plenty of depth up and down the lineup, with pitchers Hayden Duke and Zach Fortuna available on the mound and field players Alex Luccini, Roddy Hernandez, Conor Kelly and Frank Wayman as available options.

Adding to the depth of this year’s roster is a class of eight newcomers, including transfers Shane Bogli (Westfield State) and Troy Lopes (Eckerd College) and six freshmen. In that freshmen class are pitchers Brian Foley, Nick DiRito, Jacob Jette and Michael Simes, and fielder players Trevor Crosby and Rob Geisler, giving Harring plenty of options in rotation on the bump and in the field. 

Nick Barese has been promoted to Associate Head Coach ahead of the new season, entering his second year with the program and working with the pitching core. Joe Consolmagno enters his fourth year on the coaching staff while former River Hawk Drew Guldin has joined the staff as a volunteer coach. 

LeLacheur Park will open its doors on March 22 when the River Hawks host Holy Cross for their season opener before a highly anticipated series with defending conference champion Binghamton at the weekend. A midweek game against Stonehill wraps up the home stand before UMass Lowell returns to the road for four games.

The schedule ramps up in April as the River Hawks close out a road weekend series against Maine and face Dartmouth midweek before returning home to host newly added conference foe Bryant for a weekend series in Lowell. The slate includes road America East series’ against UAlbany and UMBC and non-conference games against Merrimack, Rhode Island and Boston College. UMass Lowell will have home contests against Merrimack and Harvard before closing out the month playing host to NJIT.