The Wagner Seahawks baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of

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, United States. The team has been a member of the

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, which is part of the

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's Division I, since 1987. Wagner College's first baseball team was first fielded in 1945. The Seahawks are coached by Craig Noto. The Seahawks have won one Northeast Conference baseball tournament and one Northeast Conference regular season championship, in 2000 and 2009 respectively. Wagner has appeared in the

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once, in 2000.

History

From 2008 to 2020, the team played its home games at

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. However, when the

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folded in 2020, the ballpark temporarily closed and left the Seahawks without a home stadium. The Seahawks played part of the 2020 season (which was later suspended in March due to the

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) as a

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. In 2021, they played a majority of their home games at

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. In 2022, they will play eight home games at the

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, and another 12 home games at

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(previously known as FirstEnergy Park).

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* {{Northeast Conference baseball navbox Baseball teams established in 1945

History

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