2024-25 Westfield State Baseball News
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133 student-athletes across nine winter and spring sports recognized for their academic achievement.
Five individuals and one team have been selected for the Oct. 24, 2025 ceremony
Burnett delivered one of the best seasons at the plate in the history of Owls’ baseball.
Named to the All-America team after an historic season at the plate for Westfield.
Honored to student-athletes who demonstrate the values of the MASCAC and its Sportsmanship Statement.
The Owls trio captured regional honors among teams within the New England region 2.
Awarded to top MASCAC institution for best collective sport performance over the course of the year.
Burnett’s record-setting season concludes with being named top senior male athlete of 2025.
Senior Sam Palmer (Medfield, Mass.) launched two of the Owls four home runs on the day, but third-seeded Westfield State were out-slugged by sixth-seeded Framingham State, 15-9 in a MASCAC Tournament first round elimination game from Buzzards Bay, Mass. on Thursday afternoon.
Westfield State baseball players were selected to the 2025 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference All-Conference Team with seniors’ Dan Burnett, Nick Marshall, and Sam Palmer along with sophomore Sean McNamara earning first-team honors.
Chase Racine (Pittsfield, Mass.) recorded the go-ahead two-run double down the right field line with two outs in the top of the seventh to propel Westfield State to a 5-4 game two victory as the Owls split a doubleheader with Bridgewater State in the MASCAC regular season finale on Saturday afternoon from Bridgewater, Mass.
Westfield State senior Dan Burnett (Granville, Mass.) blasted his 12th home run of the year to tie the single-season program record, but Bridgewater State scored four unanswered runs over the final two innings to defeat the Owls 7-4 on senior day in a MASCAC baseball game Friday afternoon at Bud and Jim Hagan Field.
In the storied history of Westfield State University athletics, few family names resonate quite like Racine. When Dan Racine torched the nets for the Owls' basketball program in the mid-1990s, he cemented his place among the school's all-time greats. Nearly three decades later, his son Chase is carrying on the family tradition—albeit with a different ball and glove.
Westfield State senior Nick Marshall (Reading, Mass.) homered in both games of the doubleheader as the Owls swept MASCAC opponent Fitchburg State by scores of 10-5 and 7-4 on Sunday afternoon.
Westfield State senior Dan Burnett (Granville, Mass.) finished a double shy of the cycle and senior starter Colton Vasseur (Colchester, Conn.) tossed six scoreless frames as the Owls defeated Fitchburg State 19-2 in a MASCAC contest from Hagan Field in Westfield, Mass. on Friday night.
