Kraigen Rasalla enters his third season as an Assistant Coach/Pitching Coach for the Royals in 2023.
In 2022, the Royals led the Landmark Conference in ERA, while pitchers Dan Johnson, Ryan Heiser, and Hunter Ralston all earned all-conference honors. Scranton also set a program record with 28 victories in the regular season and won the regular season Landmark Conference title.
In 2021, the Royals won the regular season Landmark Conference title, earning the #1 seed in the Landmark Conference Tournament. The season concluded with the Royals winning their first Landmark Conference Tournament and earning their first NCAA Tournament appearance in program history.
During his playing days, Rasalla played one season at Lackawanna College in Scranton, PA. Rasalla helped the Falcons win the Region XIX title in 2015 while pitching to a 0.88 ERA in 41 innings, primarily as a relief pitcher.
Rasalla finished the final three years of his career playing at Division II Dominican University in Orangeburg, NY. In 2016, he earned all-conference honors as a relief pitcher. In 2017, Rasalla earned CACC Tournament MVP Honors as Dominican won the CACC Conference Tournament and earned a bid into the Division II NCAA Tournament. For the season, he led the CACC with 82.1 innings pitched while pitching to a 2.84 ERA. In 2018, Rasalla served as one of the team captains and earned CACC All-Academic honors.
Rasalla graduated from Dominican University with a bachelor’s degree in communications in 2018. He also coaches for Baseball U PA and previously coached varsity baseball at Scranton High School.
