TALLAHASSEE, FLA — The Huskies’ historic 2025 season came to an end on Sunday afternoon, as they fell 3-2 to the Mississippi State Bulldogs.
The game saw junior Aiven Cabral take the mound for the Huskies for the first time in the NCAA Tournament, and junior Evan Siary took the bump for the Bulldogs – also for the first time of the weekend. Northeastern’s Cabral threw for 4.0 innings, allowing nine hits and three runs. On the other side of the ball, Siary lasted 6.0 innings, but gave up three hits that resulted in two runs.
Unfortunately, while the Huskies had some good contact off Siary, very little resulted in hits. They began the outing 0-for-13 at the plate with four strikeouts until junior Carmelo Musacchia finally notched a single with one down in the top of the fifth — Musacchia was later knocked in for the Huskies’ first run off a base hit from graduate student Alex Lane.
However, the Bulldogs quickly extended their lead to 3-1 in the bottom of the fifth on a sac fly that later proved to be the dagger for the Huskies’ season. Northeastern threatened at times, scored another run that cut the deficit to just one, and even had bases loaded with the top of the order up to bat in the seventh, but in the end, they were unable to find the elusive tying run.
The result was an emotional ending for the Huskies. After the game, Northeastern graduating seniors Gregory Bozzo and Brett Dunham expressed their gratitude for their time in Brookline and what ‘being a Husky’ means to them:
“It’s an honor [playing at Northeastern],” Dunham said through tears. “You come in freshman year, you put this [jersey] on, it feels special. These guys man, I played on four teams, and every year got better.
“It’s just a family. This program is truly a family,” he continued. “I am happy to leave my mark here. Coach Glavine did a great job, I mean he turns you into a man. Life gets tough and this guy tells you to deal with it. So, I would do anything I could to play here again.”
Gregory Bozzo reiterated a similar sentiment:
“This has been the most life changing five years, four-and-a-half years of my life,” said Bozzo, also visibly choked up. “Coach Glavine gave me the opportunity to come here after my program got cut. It was during COVID, so he had only seen video of me, he trusted his assistant coaches.
“The first two years didn’t go my way,” Bozzo went on. “That’s the message, that’s what I want to say to people coming in. I didn’t play my first two years, and [yet] you look at the last three years, with Coach Glavine’s help I’ve been able to become a man, become a better baseball player, and just learn how to grind, and grind through life. That is what you’re going to get when you come to this program. You might not play year-one, you may not even play year-two, but if you stick with it and you work harder than everybody else then you’re going to succeed and you’re going to rise to the top.”
Head coach Mike Glavine also discussed how proud he was of the culture that has been built at Northeastern, the players in the program, and the accomplishments the Huskies had this year:
“I can’t say enough about our guys, what they give, and how much of themselves they give to each other and to us,” Glavine said. “It’s a privilege to coach these guys, it’s an honor. I am going to miss these guys like heck, and I am just so damn proud of them and what they’ve accomplished this year… When they have a chance to reflect, they’re legends.”
Luke Graham is the Digital Content Manager for WRBBsports. He also is a Northeastern Hockey and Baseball writer/broadcaster. Read all his articles here, and follow him on X here.