Canisius College

• Location: Buffalo, NY
• Nickname: Golden Griffins
• Conference: Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference 1990-present; ECAC Upstate New York Conference ??-1989
• Ballpark: Demske Sports Complex

Canisius College has sponsored baseball since 1903. Billy Goeckel, the first major leaguer out of Canisius, had quite a life as a ballplayer, composer, lawyer and politician. Pitcher John Axford, major league coach Danny Carnevale, college coach Matt Clingersmith, minor league executive Michael Buczkowski, minor league players Kevin Mahoney and Connor Panas, minor league player and college coach Bob MacKinnon, Olympian Jack Clement and umpire Sean Cunningham also went here. Luke Urban coached football and basketball here.

Coaches

• Bob MacKinnon, 1954-1959
• Dave Markey, 1960-1971
• John Morrison, 1972
• James Kennerson, 1973-1974
• Pete Leo, 1975-1976
• Don Colpoys, 1977-1979, 1981-2001
• Tom Hallet, 1980
• Mark Notaro, 2002-2004
• Mike McRae, 2005-2017
• Matt Mazurek, 2018-present

Assistant Coaches

• Matt Clingersmith, 2006
• Tom Hallett
• Frank Jagoda, 2012-2014
• Paul Panik, 2015-2016

Year-by-Year Record

Year	Overall Record	Conference Record	Post Season
1954	8-4
1955	9-5
1956	10-3
1957	7-2
1958	12-8
1959	6-11
1960	10-5
1961	10-4
1962	7-7
1963	3-6
1964	3-11
1965	3-10
1966	4-7
1967	3-11
1968	7-8
1969	3-4
1970	7-9
1971	1-7
1972	9-4
1973	5-6
1974	5-6
1975	5-9
1976	3-7
1977	7-19
1978	10-12
1979	8-20
1980	7-23
1981	9-14
1982	14-15	2-4
1983	12-11	1-7
1984	14-10	6-2
1985	15-13	9-6
1986	18-6	11-3
1987	11-12	5-10
1988	11-17	7-7
1989	12-23	5-7
1990	11-20-1	6-6
1991	13-33	6-11
1992	13-22	8-10
1993	13-25-1	7-11
1994	28-14	17-1	MAAC
1995	21-20	7-11
1996	13-22	5-13
1997	18-19	5-13
1998	11-32	7-19
1999	13-26	8-18
2000	9-33	4-23
2001	14-28	10-17
2002	4-38	3-24
2003	4-38-1	3-23
2004	4-43	4-23
2005	9-38	5-21
2006	18-36	9-18
2007	20-35	13-12	MAAC
2008	41-13	19-5	MAAC
2009	36-22	16-8	MAAC
2010	39-21	19-5	MAAC
2011	26-32	12-10	MAAC
2012	33-27	16-8	MAAC
2013	42-17	15-9	MAAC / CWS Regionals
2014	40-16	20-4	MAAC
2015	34-30	16-8	MAAC / CWS Regionals
2016	33-26	16-8	MAAC
2017	35-22	16-8	MAAC
2018	35-22	16-8	MAAC / CWS Regionals
2019	24-29	17-7	MAAC
2020	3-11-1	0-0
2021	20-16	17-13	MAAC
2022	29-25	15-9	MAAC / CWS Regionals
2023	26-25-1	16-8	MAAC