STANDISH, ME – The New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association (NEIBA) and D3Baseball.com postseason accolades have been announced and three Saint Joseph's College players have been honored.
Senior first baseman Mike Pratt (Dartmouth, Mass.), senior pitcher Tyler Laverriere (Biddeford, Maine) and junior right fielder Alex Lorenc (Nanuet, N.Y.) have all claimed D3Baseball.com New England All-Region honors while Pratt and Laverriere have also earned NEIBA All-Region mention.
Pratt earns Second Team D3Baseball.com All-New England and Third Team NEIBA accolades after hitting .353 (53-150) with 30 runs, 12 doubles, six doubles and 49 RBI. The 2013 First Team All-GNAC honoree led the Monks in homers, RBI, total bases (85), slugging percentage (.567) and OBP (.427) this spring. The NEIBA honor is the second of his career and the four-year starter capped his NCAA career as the Monks' all-time leader in games played (176) and currently ranks second in at bats (573) and doubles (51), fifth in extra-base hits (74), sixth in RBI (150) and total bases (307), seventh in home runs (21) and ninth in hits (189).
Laverriere, the 2013 GNAC Pitcher of the Year, collects Third Team honors from both organizations after going 5-2 with a 63/16 K/BB ratio in 62 innings along with the lowest single-season ERA (1.16) in program history. The senior righthander yielded a paltry .199 (44-162) opponents' batting average and allowed just seven extra-base hits, all doubles, this season. Laverriere leaves the program with the second-lowest career WHIP (1.10) and the third-best ERA (2.67) in team history and fanned 140 batters while issuing just 39 walks over 134 innings.
Lorenc, a First Team All-GNAC honoree this spring, claims Second Team D3Baseball.com All-New England after leading the Monks in batting average (.377, 57-151), hits (57) and stolen bases (7). The junior slugger ranked second on the squad in home runs (5), slugging percentage (.550) and OBP (.427) and finished the year third in RBI (32).
Saint Joseph's finished the 2013 season with a 31-14 record overall and a 13-3 mark in Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) play under the watch of 21st-year Head Coach Will Sanborn '86. The Monks defeated Suffolk University in the GNAC Championship on April 28th to record the team's eighth conference title in the last nine seasons and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the seventh time in program history.
While competing at the New England Regional in Harwich, Massachusetts, Saint Joseph's posted a losers' bracket victory over Salem State University but suffered narrow losses at the hands of Endicott College and Western New England University with the latter setback ending the Monks' 2013 campaign.
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Saint Joseph's College is Maine's only Catholic liberal arts college, providing a supportive, personalized and career-focused education for more than 100 years. From its 350-acre campus on the shores of Sebago Lake, the College offers more than 40 undergraduate programs to a population of approximately 1,000 students. Saint Joseph's College Online provides certificates, undergraduate and advanced degrees for working adults through an online learning program. For more, visit www.sjcme.edu.
