Baseball: In Only Third Home Game of Year, Warriors Clash with Bantams Tuesday

4/6/2026 7:01:00 PM

Team Records:
Eastern: 14-5-1
Trinity College: 14-5

Series History:

This 41-game history dates back to 1983, when the Bantams emerged with an 11-inning, 13-12 win at the old Alumni Field before the Warriors ran off four straight win over the next four years. That first game was coached by New England Hall of Famers Bill Holowaty of Eastern and Trinity's Bill Decker, the latter moving on to Harvard University, where he is in his 14^th season as head coach. Holowaty retired from Eastern in 2013 as the winningest coach in the history of New England athletics.
There has been only one shutout in this series: Eastern's Sam Kosterich gaining the decision in a 6-0 victory at Trinity in 2018 after pitching a five-hitter over the first eight innings. Current Amherst College assistant coach Kevin Murphy had a hit, scored a run and drove in a run in that game for Eastern.
The Warriors are 13-7 at home all-time against the Bantams and 8-5 since moving to Holowaty Family Field at the Eastern Baseball Stadium in 1998. The teams will be playing on the Holowaty turf field for the first time this year.
Since Eastern won six straight in the series between 2010 and 2015, Trinity has won four of the last seven. Eastern has won four or more straight games four times in the series but Trinity has never won more than two in a row.
Last year at DiBenedetto Stadium on the Trinity campus, Eastern's Nathan Furino won his 20^th game in an Eastern uniform in the Warriors' 7-4 victory. Furino limited the Bantams to three hits and no earned runs through the first seven innings of that game. Eastern battered six pitchers for 11 hits and took a 7-0 lead into the home half of the seventh.
Trinity won when the teams last met at Holowaty Family Field, 11-5, in 2023. The Bantams took an 11-2 lead into the bottom of the fifth inning of that game. Dylan Schnitzer, a senior this year, reached five times for Trinity in that game with four hits and a walk and drove in four runs. The first of seven Eastern pitchers (two of whom remain on this year's roster), Nolan Lincoln allowed six runs (only three of which were earned) over the first three innings. The Warriors picked up 12 hits (no one with a hit remains on this year's roster) but stranded ten.

Game Notes:

Today's game is the first of four straight at home in a span of five days. Tomorrow's non-conference game against Stevens Tech has moved to a 4 p.m. start from an original time of 7 p.m.
Eastern is playing only its third home game, having split its first two. Eastern shut out VTSU Castleton, 6-0 in six innings, in its Little East Conference opener March 22 and dropped a 3-2 decision here four days later against nationally-ranked Salve Regina University. Since winning ten of its first 12, the Warriors are 4-3-1 in their last eight.
The LEC pre-season favorite, Eastern won its first four conference games before being swept by scores of 7-3 and 7-1 Saturday at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, losing both conference regular-season games to the Corsairs for the first time in ten years.
Led by Stephen Rickert (4-1), Eastern has gotten wins from eight different pitchers, with three relievers combining for its four saves. Twenty different pitchers have seen action through the team's first 20 games.
Pre-season All-America catcher Hank Penders (.410) shows a team-high batting average, with Ian Moser having collected 11 extra-base hits, Penders ten and Lucas Malave eight. Eastern's 17 home runs are 11 more than its opponent.
Teige Kimbler has stolen 18 bases (nearly half of the team's total) in 19 tries
Like Eastern, Trinity got off to a hot start, winning eight of its first nine but is 6-4 in its last ten. The Bantams are 5-1 in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) and are coming off a weekend home sweep of Williams College, averaging 12 runs in those games.
With both Eastern and Trinity coming off conference weekends and scheduled to play multiple games in their respective conferences again this weekend, fans are not likely to see either team's front-line starters -- or at least not for any significant number of innings..
Trinity is batting .321 as a team (Eastern at .298) and averaging 9.1 runs per game.
Two Trinity regulars are batting over .400 – sophomores Tim Domizio (.433) and Aidan Stevenson (.410). The duo has combined for 24 extra-base hits, with Domizio's 15 leading the club.
Domizio and Tyler Bernstein are a combined 24-for-26 in stolen bases.

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