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CAA Baseball Grows With Strong Additions

WILMINGTON, N.C. – With the addition of Campbell for the 2023-24 academic year and the 2024 season, the Colonial Athletic Association baseball membership has grown to 12 members.

The Camels join Stony Brook, Monmouth and North Carolina A&T, all of whom entered the CAA as members for the 2023 season.

We'll take some time and look at the newcomers and their programs.

Campbell, which is in Buies Creek, N.C., has played UNCW 127 times since the first meeting in 1965. The Camels have won three of the last four Big South Conference tournament championships and earned an at-large to the NCAA tournament in 2021.

Heading up their recent successes is head coach Justin Haire. Haire owns a record of 240-175.

Led by shortstop Zach Neto being selected by the Angels with the 17th pick overall, Campbell had three players drafted in the MLB Draft, including Thomas Harrington, a pitcher, who was taken by the Pirates, in the compensation round of the first round. Ryan Chasse, a pitcher, was selected by the Blue Jays in the 17th round.

The Camels play at Jim Perry Stadium, which hosted the Buies Creek Astros for the 2017 and 2018 seasons. Perry pitched at the MLB level for 16 seasons and made his debut with the Cleveland Indians in 1959.

Stony Brook has been one of the top programs in the northeast and reached the College World Series in 2012 following an exciting run through the Miami Regional and the Baton Rouge Super Regional.

The Seawolves have won six tournament championships while a member of the America East Conference, including the 2004 championship when they joined UNCW in the Kinston Regional of the NCAA Tournament.

Five Stony Brook alums have played at the Major League level, including Joe Nathan, who pitched for 17 seasons as a reliever for several organizations. Nathan donated the funds needed to renovate the baseball field and the field was renamed Joe Nathan Field beginning in the 2012 season.

Head Coach Matt Senk began his tenure as skipper in 1991 and has a career record of 925-637-4 in 33 seasons.

Monmouth, which previously was a member of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC), like UNCW, is located within a long fly ball of the Atlantic Ocean in West Long Branch, N.J.

The Hawks were 24-27 in 2022, their 29th under the direction of Dean Ehehalt, a graduate of East Carolina and helped the Pirates win the 1987 CAA Championship. Ehehalt has won over 750 games over the course of his 29 seasons with the Hawks.

Monmouth has played in four NCAA regionals with the most recent being in 2009 in Oxford, Miss.

Three former Hawks have played at the MLB level with Pat Light being the last to do so in the 2016 season for the Red Sox and Twins.

North Carolina A&T rounds out the newcomers, having last played as a member of the Big South in 2022 following a long run as a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.

The Aggies play at War Memorial Stadium in Greensboro. Built in 1927, War Memorial has hosted eight minor league teams, including the Greensboro Bats of the South Atlantic League in 2004.

Head Coach Ben Hall was named the interim head coach for the 2014 season and saw the interim tag removed for the following season. Hall led the Aggies to their second NCAA Regionals appearance in the 2018 Chapel Hill Regional. NC A&T also played in the 2005 Clemson Regional.

Eightteen Aggies have been selected in the MLB Draft with Al Holland being the lone Aggie to play at the MLB level. Holland was selected in the fourth round of the 1975 draft and represented the Phillies in the 1984 All-Star game.

UNCW Versus
School Record Last Played
Campbell 84-42-1 2022
Stony Brook 2-1 2013
Monmouth 1-0 2000
North Carolina A&T 3-0 2001
 
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