Karabin enters his sixth season as an Assistant Coach/Pitching Coach for the Royals in 2024.
In 2023, both senior right-hander Daniel Johnson and graduate student southpaw Ryan Heiser earned All-Conference accolades as the Royals notched 26 victories and posted a runner-up finish in the Landmark Tournament.
Heiser, Johnson and junior righty Hunter Ralston all received All-Landmark honors in 2022 and Johnson went on to earn both D3Baseball.com and ABCA.Rawlings All-Region recognition.
2021 saw the Royals capture the program's first Landmark Conference title as they defeated Elizabethtown in the championship series. Johnson was named Landmark Pitcher of the Year and earned both All-Landmark First Team as well as D3Baseball.com All-Region honors. His 0.99 ERA is the third-lowest in a single season in program history.
During the COVID-19 shortened 2020 season, the Royals posted a 3.20 team ERA and freshman right-hander Hunter Ralston was named Landmark Conference Pitcher of the Week after allowing just an unearned run on three hits in a complete-game seven inning effort against Albright.
The 2019 season marked Matt Karabin's first year as an assistant coach with The University of Scranton baseball team. He helped the Royals return to the Landmark Conference playoffs with a 17-22 (9-9 Landmark) record in his first season with the program.
Karabin enjoyed an outstanding career at nearby Misericordia University where he was a key member of the Cougars’ pitching staff, leading the team to three-straight Freedom Conference championships.
Karabin was a two-time First Team All-Freedom Conference selection and was named the Middle Atlantic Conference’s (MAC) Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year. He was also named to the CoSIDA/Capital One Division III Academic All-District Team and was chose as Misericordia’s ECAC/Robbins Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
Karabin, who graduated from Misericordia in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics with a certification in secondary education, currently teaches high school math at the Commonwealth Charter Academy. He also coaches for Baseball U PA and previously coached ninth grade baseball at Dallas High School.
