Bryant Bulldogs baseball
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Founded | 1969 |
University | Bryant University |
Head coach | Ryan Klosterman (5th season) |
Conference | America East |
Location | Smithfield, Rhode Island |
Home stadium | Conaty Park (Capacity: 500) |
Nickname | Bulldogs |
Colors | Black and gold[1] |
College World Series appearances | |
Division II: 2004 | |
NCAA regional champions | |
Division II Northeast: 2004 | |
NCAA Tournament appearances | |
Division I: 2013, 2014, 2016, 2024 Division II: 1986, 1998, 2004, 2007, 2008 | |
Conference tournament champions | |
America East: 2024 NEC: 2013, 2014, 2016 NE-10: 1999 | |
Regular season conference champions | |
America East: 2024 NEC: 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021 NE-10: 1986, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2008 |
The Bryant Bulldogs baseball team is the NCAA division 1 varsity intercollegiate baseball team of Bryant University, located in Smithfield, Rhode Island. The program participates a member of the America East Conference. The Bulldogs previously participated as members of the Northeast Conference. It plays at Conaty Park on the northern edge of Bryant's campus. Ryan Klosterman has been the program's head coach since the 2020 season.
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Two former Bulldogs, Keith MacWhorter and James Karinchak have gone on to play in Major League Baseball.
History
Division II
1969 was Bryant's first season of varsity
The school hired Steve Thornton to replace Stein. The school did not sponsor a team in 1974 or 1976, but in the three seasons Thornton did coach (1972, 1973, and 1975), Bryant went 26–28 overall.
In 1976,
Former
Northeast-10 Conference
Bryant was a founding member of the Northeast-7 Conference in the 1980–81 academic year. The conference became the Northeast-8 when Saint Anselm joined the following year and the Northeast-10 (NE-10) when Saint Michael's and Quinnipiac joined for the 1987–88 academic year.[11]
Earl Matthewson replaced McGuinn and coached the team from 1984 and 1986. He had an overall record of 58–32–1 won the Northeast-10 Coach of the Year award in all three seasons. The 1985 team went 21–11 and lost to Stonehill in the NE-10 title game. In 1986, Bryant 22–11–1, won the NE-10, and qualified for its first NCAA tournament. It went 0–2 at the Northeast Regional, losing games to New Haven and Adelphi.[2][12][13]
After Matthewson left, Dale O'Dell coached the team from 1987 to 1990. Two players won major conference awards under him, both in 1987. Tony Garganese was named NE-10 Player of the Year, Bob Heinzemann Freshman of the Year. Heinzemann was the fourth consecutive Bulldog to win the award (Garganese won it in 1985). Garganese was also named a Division II All-American by the ABCA.[2]
Bryant alumnus and Rhode Island assistant Jon Sjogren became the program's head coach after O'Dell. He held the position for 15 seasons (1991–2005) and had an overall 360–305–1 record.[2][14]
The Bulldogs went 13–17 in Sjogren's first season. Outfielder Glenn Tatro became Bryant's second draftee when the
In 1997, facility problems plagued the team, which had to play 42 of its 43 games on the road. It finished the season with a 21–22 record. The Bryant Baseball Complex opened a few years later during the 2000 season.[15]
In 1998, Bryant reached its second NCAA tournament after winning the NE-10's regular season title. It went 1–2 at the Northeast Regional, notching its first tournament win with a 10-inning, 7–6 defeat of UMass Lowell in the opening game. The program's first 30-win season came in 2001, and it reached its third NCAA tournament in 2002, again going 1–2 at the Northeast Regional.[2][13]
For the 2003 season, the Northeast-10 switched from metal to wooden baseball bats. Sjogren said of the decision, "We did it for the sake of the game, to make it cleaner and return it to the way it was meant to be played. We certainly feel it has done that."[16]
Bryant's 2004 team made the program's deepest postseason run, going 40–17 and reaching the College World Series. The team used wooden bats during the regular season in accordance with NE-10 rules, then switched to metal bats for the NCAA postseason. Bryant hosted the Northeast Regional, which it won with a 3–1 record, defeating
After the 2005 season, Sjogren left to become the head coach at Rollins, where he replaced Bob Rikeman, who had left to become the head coach at Newberry.[14][19][20] Bryant hired Assumption head coach Jamie Pinzino to replace him. In five seasons as head coach, Pinzino had a 162–122 overall record.[21]
Bryant went 18–33 in Pinzino's first season but made back-to-back NCAA tournaments in 2007 and 2008. Both times, it lost to Franklin Pierce in the Northeast Regional finals. Pitcher Eric Loh of the 2007 team received several major awards: ABCA Division II All-American, ABCA Northeast Region Pitcher of the Year, and NE-10 Pitcher of the Year. Pinzino was named the NE-10's Coach of the Year.[2][22]
Division I
Bryant joined the NCAA Division I in the 2009 season. Playing as an independent, the Bulldogs went 32–22. Shortstop Pat McKenna was drafted by the Tigers following the season. The school's programs joined the Northeast Conference (NEC) for the 2009–10 academic year; the baseball program was ineligible for the postseason from 2010 to 2012 while the school completed the transition to Division I.[2][23]
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Following the season, Pinzino was involved in an incident that led to his resignation. At a postseason athletic department barbecue in May, Pinzino became intoxicated, got in a fight with an assistant baseball coach on Bryant's baseball field, and was confrontational with police when they arrived at the scene. Pinzino was arrested and charged with three misdemeanors (simple assault, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest). As a result, he resigned his position as Bryant's baseball coach.[24][25]
Bryant hired
In Owens's second season, 2012, Bryant won another NEC regular season title, going 33-21 (24-8 NEC). The Bulldogs again won three of the conference's four major awards: Owens was Coach of the Year, Kevin McAvoy Rookie of the Year, and Peter Kelich Pitcher of the Year.[2][27]
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Conference affiliations
- Southern New England Conference (College Division): 1969–1970
- Independent (College Division/Division II): 1971–1973, 1975, 1976–1980
- Northeast-10 Conference (Division II): 1981–2008
- Independent(Division I): 2009
- Northeast Conference (Division I): 2010–2022
- America East Conference (Division I): 2023–present
Venues
Conaty Park
Bryant has played at Conaty Park since it was built for the 2000 season. Prior to being dedicated to alumni donor Bill Conaty on April 28, 2012, it was known as the Bryant Baseball Complex. Its capacity of 500 people consists of 200 chairback seats and berm seating beyond the outfield fence.[38][39]
In 2004, the facility hosted the Division II Northeast Regional, which included Bryant,
Head coaches
Since its first season in 1969, Bryant has had nine head coaches. Bill Stein, who held the position from 1969 to 1971, was the program's first head coach. Jon Sjogren, who coached the team from 1991 to 2005, is both the longest-tenured (15 seasons) and winningest (360) coach.[2]
Tenure(s) | Coach | Seasons | W–L–T | Pct |
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1969–1971 | Bill Stein | 3 | 23–33 | .411 |
1972–1973, 1975 | Steve Thornton | 3 | 26–28 | .481 |
1977–1978 | Bob Reall | 2 | 11–41 | .212 |
1979–1983 | Michael McGuinn | 5 | 48–88 | .353 |
1984–1986 | Earl Matthewson | 3 | 58–32–1 | .644 |
1987–1990 | Dale O'Dell | 4 | 39–36–1[a] | .520 |
1991–2005 | Jon Sjogren | 15 | 360–305–2 | .541 |
2006–2010 | Jamie Pinzino | 5 | 162–122 | .570 |
2011–2019 | Steve Owens | 9 | 328–184–2 | .640 |
2020–present | Ryan Klosterman | 5 | 123–97–1 | .559 |
TOTALS | 10 | 54 | 1,178–967–5[a] | .549 |
Yearly records
Below is a table of Bryant's yearly records. After playing its first season in 1969, the team was not sponsored in 1974 or 1976. It joined Division I in 2009.[2][3][12][40][41]
Season | Coach | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Southern New England Conference – DII (1969–1970) | |||||||||
1969 | Bill Stein | 5-14 | 1-7 | ||||||
1970 | Bill Stein | 11-8 | 4-4 | ||||||
Independent – Division II (1971–1973) | |||||||||
1971 | Bill Stein | 7-11 | |||||||
1972 | Steve Thornton | 9-7 | |||||||
1973 | Steve Thornton | 7-10 | |||||||
No team (1974) | |||||||||
Independent – Division II (1975) | |||||||||
1975 | Steve Thornton | 10-11 | |||||||
No team (1976) | |||||||||
Independent – Division II (1977–1980) | |||||||||
1977 | Bob Reall | 8-16 | |||||||
1978 | Bob Reall | 3-25 | |||||||
1979 | Michael McGuinn | 1-22 | |||||||
1980 | Michael McGuinn | 10-15 | |||||||
NE-7/NE-8/NE-10[b] (1981–2008) | |||||||||
1981 | Michael McGuinn | 9-19 | 2-10 | ||||||
1982 | Michael McGuinn | 11-15 | 3-10 | ||||||
1983 | Michael McGuinn | 17-17 | 3-8 | ||||||
1984 | Earl Matthewson | 15-10 | 6-6 | ||||||
1985 | Earl Matthewson | 21-11 | 9-6 | NE-10 Tournament | |||||
1986 | Earl Matthewson | 22-11-1 | 1st | NCAA Regional | |||||
1987 | Dale O'Dell | 14-7-1 | 6-3 | ||||||
1988 | Dale O'Dell | 13-15 | |||||||
1989 | Dale O'Dell | N/A[a] | |||||||
1990 | Dale O'Dell | 12-14 | 5-12 | ||||||
1991 | Jon Sjogren | 13-17 | 9-9 | ||||||
1992 | Jon Sjogren | 21-17 | 9-9 | NE-10 Tournament | |||||
1993 | Jon Sjogren | 15-18 | 9-13 | ||||||
1994 | Jon Sjogren | 16-24-1 | 10-12 | ||||||
1995 | Jon Sjogren | 17-22 | 10-12 | ||||||
1996 | Jon Sjogren | 24-20 | 13-6 | 1st | NE-10 Tournament | ||||
1997 | Jon Sjogren | 21-22 | 13-10 | ||||||
1998 | Jon Sjogren | 29-19 | 20-5 | 1st | NCAA Regional | ||||
1999 | Jon Sjogren | 23-25 | 13-11 | NE-10 Tournament | |||||
2000 | Jon Sjogren | 29-19 | 19-5 | 1st | NE-10 Tournament | ||||
2001 | Jon Sjogren | 30-20 | 23-10 | NE-10 Tournament | |||||
2002 | Jon Sjogren | 35-22 | 24-9 | 1st | NCAA Regional | ||||
2003 | Jon Sjogren | 24-22-1 | 16-14 | NE-10 Tournament | |||||
2004 | Jon Sjogren | 40-17 | 24-9 | College World Series | |||||
2005 | Jon Sjogren | 22-21 | 16-14 | 6th | NE-10 Tournament | ||||
2006 | Jamie Pinzino | 18-33 | 16-14 | 6th | NE-10 Tournament | ||||
2007 | Jamie Pinzino | 35-24 | 21-9 | 3rd | NCAA Regional | ||||
2008 | Jamie Pinzino | 43–21 | 25–5 | 1st | NCAA Regional | ||||
Division II: | 660–641–3[a] | ||||||||
Independent – Division I (2009)
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2009 | Jamie Pinzino | 32–22 | |||||||
Northeast Conference (2010–2022) | |||||||||
2010 | Jamie Pinzino | 34–22 | 25–7 | 1st | |||||
2011 | Steve Owens | 30–23 | 19–12 | 4th | |||||
2012 | Steve Owens | 33–21 | 24–8 | 1st | |||||
2013 | Steve Owens | 45–18 | 27–5 | 1st | NCAA Regional | ||||
2014 | Steve Owens | 42–16 | 19–5 | 1st | NCAA Regional | ||||
2015 | Steve Owens | 29–25 | 17–7 | 1st (7) | |||||
2016 | Steve Owens | 47–12 | 26–4 | 1st (7) | NCAA Regional | ||||
2017 | Steve Owens | 30–27 | 20–6 | 1st (7) | |||||
2018 | Steve Owens | 32–23–1 | 21–7 | T-1st (7) | |||||
2019 | Steve Owens | 40–20 | 19–5 | 1st (7) | |||||
2020 | Ryan Klosterman | 4–11 | 0–0 | Season canceled due to COVID-19 | |||||
2021 | Ryan Klosterman | 27–14–1 | 21–4 | 1st | Northeast Tournament
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2022 | Ryan Klosterman | 30–27 | 17–10 | 2nd | Northeast Tournament
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America East Conference (2023–present) | |||||||||
2023 | Ryan Klosterman | 26–24 | 12–12 | T–3rd | America East Tournament | ||||
2024 | Ryan Klosterman | 36–21 | 17–7 | 1st | NCAA Regional | ||||
Division I: | 517–326–2 | 284–99 | |||||||
Total: | 1,178–967–5[a] | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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Notable alumni
The following is a list of notable former Bulldogs.
Major League Baseball Draft
2010
One Bulldog was selected in the
2013
Three Bulldogs were selected in the
2014
In 2014, a record four Bulldogs were selected in the
See also
Notes
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