Holy Cross Crusaders baseball

The Holy Cross Crusaders baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. The team is a member of the Patriot League, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. The team plays its home games at Hanover Insurance Park at Hanover Insurance Park at Fitton Field in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Crusaders are coached by Ed Kahovec. Holy Cross has participated in the NCAA tournament 12 times and has advanced to the College World Series on four occasions, capturing the title in 1952. The team earned its first Patriot League regular season title in 2013 before falling in the Patriot League Championship Series for the third time in four years. The team also boasts recent wins over top 10 teams, defeating #4 Texas A&M in 2012 and #7 Mississippi State in 2014.

In 2017, the team won its first Patriot League Tournament championship by sweeping Army and Bucknell. It was the fifth PLCS appearance for the Crusaders in eight years. They captured their second Patriot League Tournament championship in 2025, defeating Lehigh in the semifinal series and sweeping Army in the championship series. In 2026, as the No. 4 seed, the Crusaders won back-to-back Patriot League Tournament Championships for the first time in program history, sweeping Army in the semifinal series before beating Bucknell in three games in the championship series. Holy Cross became the first No. 4 seed to win the Patriot League Tournament Championship since 2010.

The Crusaders have had 33 players selected by Major League teams in the MLB draft, most recently Nick Lovullo (Boston Red Sox, 2016), Brendan King (Chicago Cubs, 2017), Declan Cronin (Chicago White Sox, 2019) and Danny Macchiarola (Seattle Mariners, 2025).

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