The Boston College Eagles baseball team represents

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classified ...

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. 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 Assoc ...

. The head coach of the Eagles is

Mike Gambino Michael L. Gambino (born July 9, 1977) is an American baseball coach and former infielder, who is the current head baseball coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions. Prior to accepting the head coaching position at Penn State, he served as an assi ...

, a 2000 alumnus of Boston College, and the team plays its home games at the newly constructed Eddie Pellagrini Diamond at Harrington Athletics Village after having played at Shea Field from 1961 to 2017.

NCAA Division I tournament

The team has been selected to play in the

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eight times, most recently in

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. It has played in the

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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

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. 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

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, as part of the Red Sox'

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(

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) season at

JetBlue Park JetBlue Park (also styled as jetBlue Park) is a baseball park in Fort Myers, Florida, part of the Fenway South training and development facility. Opened in March 2012, it is primarily the spring training home of the Boston Red Sox, replacing e ...

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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