The Boston College Eagles baseball team represents

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in NCAA Division I college baseball. The team participates in the Atlantic Division of the

Atlantic Coast Conference The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic conference located in the eastern United States. Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC's fifteen member universities compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Associa ...

. The head coach of the Eagles is

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, a 2000 alumnus of Boston College, and the team plays its home games at the newly constructed

Eddie Pellagrini Diamond Eddie Pellagrini Diamond is a baseball stadium at the Harrington Athletics Village located in Boston College in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. History Boston College constructed the new Eddie Pellagrini Diamond as part of an effort t ...

Harrington Athletics Village The Harrington Athletics Village is a sports complex located on the Brighton Campus at Boston College in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The complex currently consists of the Eddie Pellagrini Diamond, which is home to the Boston College ...

after having played at Shea Field from 1961 to 2017.

NCAA Division I tournament

The team has been selected to play in the NCAA Division I baseball tournament eight times, most recently in

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. It has played in the College World Series four times, the most recent being

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Conference tournament

Longest game in college-baseball history

On May 30, 2009, the Eagles played in the longest game in college-baseball history — a 25-inning game — during the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship regional tournament at Austin, Texas. The University of Texas Longhorns — who were designated the visiting team despite playing on their home field — won, 3–2. The game lasted seven hours and three minutes."2009 NCAA Div. I Baseball College World Series Bracket"
(in column 1 (Regionals), click on Austin box; then click on Texas–BC box). NCAA.com.

Exhibition game with Boston Red Sox

The team has traditionally played an exhibition game each spring against the Boston Red Sox, as part of the Red Sox'

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( Grapefruit League) season at JetBlue Park at Fenway South.

Annual ALS Awareness Game

This game began in 2012 and is played in honor of former captain Pete Frates (2004–2007), who was diagnosed with

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in 2012.

References

External links

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