STANDISH, ME - The 2013 American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings All-Region Teams have been released and a pair of Saint Joseph's College seniors have been honored.
First baseman Mike Pratt (Dartmouth, Mass.) and starting pitcher Tyler Laverriere (Biddeford, Maine) have both earned 2013 ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Division III New England All-Region Third Team accolades.
Pratt collects his third regional award after hitting .353 (53-150) with 30 runs, 12 doubles, six doubles and 49 RBI during his senior season. The four-year starter paced the Royal Blue in homers, RBI, total bases (85), slugging percentage (.567) and OBP (.427) en route to claiming Second Team D3Baseball.com All-New England and Third Team New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association (NEIBA) accolades this spring. A three-time All-Conference player, Pratt ranks as the Monks' all-time leader in games played (176) and is currently 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, also takes home his third New England honor after posting a 5-2 record with 63 strikeouts and just 16 walks in 62 innings along with the lowest single-season ERA (1.16) in program history. A Third Team D3Baseball.com All-New England and Third Team NEIBA honoree, Laverriere allowed a lowly .199 (44-162) opponents' batting average and surrendered just seven extra-base hits, all doubles, this spring. He leaves the program with the second-lowest career WHIP (1.10) and the third-best ERA (2.67) in program history and fanned 140 batters while issuing just 39 walks in 134 innings over four seasons.
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.