PostSportsPlus: College baseball opening day is on deck, and an ex-Met is trying to restore the pride of one local team
“We started practicing on Jan. 17,” Frank Catalanotto told Post Sports+ of his Hofstra club. “We have our first game on Feb. 25 at Houston Baptist.”
The Long Island native, who wrapped up an impressive 14-year major league playing career with the 2010 Mets, will be making his Division I coaching debut — as will his Houston Baptist counterpart, brief former Yankee Lance Berkman — with the Pride. He captured the college baseball world’s attention with his stellar job leading Division II New York Tech, taking that program to the NCAA tournament in 2019 and posting a 9-5 record in 2020 before COVID shut down the rest of the season.
“Hofstra baseball hasn’t been good in a while,” Catalanotto said . “The first thing is to get into the tournament and win the [ ]. That’s definitely something that’s doable. We want to make kids in the Northeast think, ‘OK, Hofstra is the place to go to play.’” All three of his coaches — Jimmy Goelz, Chris Rojas and Matt Wessinger — played professionally.
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