With the start of the Massachusetts Maritime baseball season just a few short weeks away, Head Coach Bob Corradi has tabbed four Buccaneers to serve as captains for his 43^rd and final team, as seniors Zac Cooney, T.J. Notarangelo, Bobby Rosano and Tyler Smith will provide leadership during the affable mentor’s final campaign.

Rosano, a native of North Reading, Mass. and a graduate of North Reading High School, returns as Massachusetts Maritime’s starting shortstop this spring, as the two-time all-MASCAC and 2013 All-New England honoree batted .302 with 10 extra base hits and 17 RBI last season.  Rosano, a two-sport standout who also excelled on the gridiron for the Buccaneers, brings a .344 career batting average into his final collegiate season while adding a .432 on-base percentage and a .467 slugging percentage.

Cooney, a native of East Bridgewater, Mass. and a graduate of Cardinal Spellman High School, has been a versatile performer on the mound and in the field for Corradi during the course of his career.  Cooney posted a 5-2 mark with a 1.36 ERA and a save while fanning 24 in 33 innings of work during the 2014 season, and he has recorded six wins and eight saves in 37 career appearances.  Cooney has also started at both second and third base during his career, as he rapped out a pair of doubles last spring.

Notarangelo, a native of Foxboro, Mass. and a graduate of Foxboro High School, returning to the Buccaneer starting rotation for a fourth straight season, as he has made 17 starts in 26 career appearances with four victories and a save, including a no-hitter as a sophomore at Fitchburg State in 2013.  Notarangelo struck out 23 in 24 innings pitched last spring and has ranked among the team leaders in strikeouts throughout his career.

Smith, a native of Bellingham, Mass. and a graduate of Bellingham High School, joins Notarangelo in Massachusetts Maritime’s rotation, as he has started 19 of 22 games appeared in during his career.  Smith, who along with Cooney and Notarangelo has been honored for their efforts in the classroom with numerous citations on the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll and Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference All-Academic team, has notched four wins and a save over the last three seasons, including three triumphs during the 2013 season.

“Our senior classes have really stepped up in the last few years in terms of play on the field and providing leadership off of it, and I have full confidence this will continue with these four young men,” Corradi, who enters his final season with 562 career victories, says of his 2015 captains.  “There is a high level of expectation of doing things the right away, whether it’s in competition or in the classroom, for this program, and I fully expect to exceed those expectations once again this year.”

Massachusetts Maritime, which posted its highest single-season win total in six years with 15 victories last spring, opens its 2015 slate on Thursday, February 26^th by taking on rival SUNY-Maritime in a non-league doubleheader in Fort Pierce, Fla. that begins at 1:00 p.m. EST.