2023 Westfield State Baseball News
Westfield State baseball coach Nathan Bashaw will be stepping down after nine seasons at the helm of the Owls program, effective January 12, 2024 to pursue private business interests outside of coaching.
The Westfield State University baseball program is hosting a baseball prospect clinic for high school-aged players on Sunday, Oct 15, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. on Bud and Jim Hagan Field.
The Westfield State University baseball team earned recognition as part of the 2022-23 ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award list.
“The spring really helped with my confidence,” he said. “Being a closer you are almost always working in stressful moments in tight games or with men on base, and I think I carried that experience into the start of the season here"
Westfield State senior reliever Joe Espinola was selected to play in the 2023 Future’s Collegiate Baseball League All-Star Game tonight in Burlington, Vermont
Westfield State athletics placed a total of 137 student-athletes as part of the 2023 MASCAC Winter/Spring All-Academic Team that was released by Commissioner Angela Baumann.
While Major League Baseball pauses for the all-star break, Westfield State graduate Brandon Smith ’23 is still hard at work, as he embarks on an umpiring career, working his first season in the Northwoods League this summer.
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When Matt Motyka’s college baseball career with the Westfield State University ended, he went from the pitcher’s mound, onto a cross-country flight
35 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) student-athletes have been honored for their outstanding sportsmanship as members of the 2023 Spring Sportsmanship Teams.
Westfield State sophomore Nick Marshall and junior Dan Burnett each earned spots on the 2023 ABCA/Rawlings Division III All-Region – Region Two team as voted on by the members of the American Baseball Coaches Association.
For the third straight year, Westfield State University secured the Howard C. Smith Sup as the best overall athletics program in the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference for the 2022-23 academic year.
Westfield State baseball players Dan Burnett, Ryan Donahue, Ryan Lapierre, Joe Espinola, and Joe Fischer all earned spots on teams within the Futures Collegiate Baseball League of New England to begin the summer season.
Westfield State baseball players Nick Marshall, Dan Burnett, Ryan Lapierre, and Ethan Day all received conference recognition as they were named to the MASCAC All-Conference first and second teams for the 2023 season.
Westfield State sophomore Justin Neidel (Attleboro, Mass.) clubbed four hits including three triples, but the third-seeded Owls fell to sixth-seeded Fitchburg State 14-8 in a Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference elimination game on Thursday.
The #3 Westfield State baseball team will begin postseason play on Thursday, May 11 at 11:00 A.M. against #6 Fitchburg State in an elimination game from Bridgewater, Mass.
