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With all the talk surrounding the World Series champion Red Sox, asking a 5-year-old diehard baseball fan from Middleborough what his favorite baseball team was seemed like a rhetorical question. But Dylan Berio runs contrary to type. “The Bridgewater Bears,” he said, emphatically.

Massachusetts Maritime seniors Chris Gallagher and Melanie Holder will be among more than 350 student-athletes who were identified as leaders on their campuses and 125 athletics professionals from the Northeast region during the annual NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum that will take place this weekend (November 7-10) in Providence, R.I.

Nathan Bashaw has been appointed head baseball coach at Westfield State University. The announcement was made today by Westfield State director of athletics Richard Lenfest. Bashaw, the head coach at Elms College in Chicopee, Mass., for the past three years, officially begins his Westfield State duties Aug. 26.

In the classic baseball movie 'Bull Durham', baseball was characterized as a simple game. You throw the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball. And for more than 50 years, no man saw more games, or had an effect on more of the area's young baseball players, than Ray Arra

Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference champion Salem State is seeded seventh in the 2013 NCAA Division III New England Baseball Regionals, as the Vikings begin their quest for the national crown on Wednesday evening by taking on second-seeded and 2012 national runner-up Wheaton in opening round action at Whitehouse Field in Harwich, Mass. at 8:00 p.m. EDT

Salem State senior outfielder Steve Buitkus and freshman Sean Buckland were named as the respective Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Baseball Player and Pitcher of the Week on Monday morning after leading the Vikings to the league tournament championship over the weekend

Top-seeded Salem State captured the 2013 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Baseball Championship on Sunday afternoon, as the Vikings posted a 5-0 victory over third-seeded Westfield State in the title game played at Alumni Field in Salem, Mass.

Top-seeded Salem State is in the driver's seat in the 2013 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Baseball Championships, as the Vikings will take on third-seeded Westfield State in this year's title contest on Sunday afternoon at Alumni Field in Salem, Mass.

Top-seeded Salem State and second-seeded Framingham State advanced to the semifinals of the 2013 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Baseball Championships on Friday afternoon, as the Vikings and Rams posted respective second round home victories over fourth-seeded Worcester State and third-seeded Westfield State

Third-seeded Westfield State and fourth-seeded Worcester State advanced to the double elimination portion of the 2013 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Baseball Championships on Thursday afternoon, as the Owls and Lancers notched respective home opening round victories over sixth-seeded Massachusetts Maritime and fifth-seeded Bridgewater State

Salem State University senior outfielder Steve Buitkus has been named as the 2013 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Baseball Player of the Year and heads the league’s all-conference squad in a vote taken of the conference’s eight coaches

Salem State University has earned the top seed in the 2013 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Baseball Championships, which begin with single elimination first round play on Thursday, May 2nd and continue in a double elimination format from Friday, May 3rd through Sunday, May 5th, as this year’s tournament field has expanded from four to six teams

Worcester State sophomore outfielder Zach George and Framingham State junior Matt DiCato were named as the respective Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Player and Pitcher of the Week on Monday afternoon for their respective performances in nine combined victories for the Lancers and Rams last week

Salem State senior outfielder and Worcester State senior Alex Teal were named as the respective Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Baseball Player and Pitcher of the Week on Sunday evening for their efforts in a combined eight victories for the Vikings and Lancers last week
Bridgewater State senior second baseman Sean Riley and Massachusetts Maritime sophomore shortstop Bobby Rosano were named as the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Baseball Co-Players of the Week on Sunday evening for their respective performances for the Bears and Buccaneers on the week

Massachusetts Maritime sophomore T.J. Notarangelo was named as the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Baseball Pitcher of the Week on Sunday evening after he tossed the fifth Buccaneer no-hitter in school history and the first in 11 years in a 7-0 victory at Fitchburg State