LIU Brooklyn baseball picked fourth in conference, but has first-place expectations
Beating Bryant in the first round of the Northeast Conference playoffs was huge for the LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds last season. Unfortunately, it might have left them a little overconfident against the eventual NEC champions, when Bryant got payback and beat them 16-1 in the next round.
“Bryant was a nationally ranked team at one point and their entire bullpen threw in the 90s so beating them was huge,” the Blackbird’s center fielder Pete Leonello said. “It was an awesome time in our lives. We came in as the underdog and beat the No. 1 seed.