7 Joe Coyne
7 Joe Coyne
Height: 5-11
Weight: 200
Bats/Throws: R/R
Year: 2015
Hometown: Duxbury, Mass.
High School: Duxbury
Position: C
Major: Exercise Science Specialist
Bats/Throws: R/R

Accolades:

ABCA/Rawlings All-New England: Second Team (2015)
D3Baseball.com All-New England: Second Team (2015)
NEIBA All-New England: Second Team (2015)
D3Baseball.com All-New England: Third Team (2014)
NEIBA All-New England: Third Team (2014)
GNAC Player of the Year: 2015
All-Conference: 1st Team (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
D3Baseball.com Player of the Week: 4/27/2015
GNAC Player of the Week: 4/22/134/6/2015
GNAC Rookie of the Week: 3/20/12
GNAC Honor Roll: 3/10/14, 4/14/14
GNAC All-Academic Team: (2014, 2015)

2015: Played and started in all 43 games as a senior captain…one of just three Monks to start in every contest…started 35 games behind the plate and eight as the team’s designated hitter…hit .404 (61-151) with 31 runs, 17 doubles, two triples, three home runs, 36 RBI and six stolen bases…also posted a .603 slugging percentage and a .480 OBP…led the Monks in doubles, round trippers, RBI, slugging and OBP…claimed a bevy of postseason honors, including his fourth First Team All-GNAC accolade…earned GNAC Player of the Year and Second Team All-Region mention from three organizations: ABCA/Rawlings, D3Baseball.com and NEIBA…selected as the GNAC Player of the Week on April 6th…listed on the D3Baseball.com Team of the Week on April 27th…held without a hit in just 10 contests all season and reached base in 40 of 43 games…also paced the Royal Blue in multiple-hit games (20) and multiple-RBI efforts (11)…tied for the team’s longest hitting streak (12 games) and ended his career riding a five-gamer…went 3-5 with three RBI versus Emory University on February 16th…was 3-4 with two runs and an RBI in an 8-3 victory over Pitt-Greensburg on February 28th…rapped two doubles and went 3-4 with two runs and a pair of RBI in a 9-4 triumph over Westfield State on March 12th…launched his first home run of the season and knocked in three in a win at Bates College on April 6th…was 2-3 with two runs, a double, and three RBI to help the Monks complete a sweep over Anna Maria College on April 11th…went 6-8 with two runs, two doubles, and a pair of RBI in a split with Suffolk University on April 18th…was 4-5 with two runs, a double, two home runs, and four RBI in a 7-0 GNAC Tournament win over Lasell College on April 23rd…for his career, hit .350 (219-626) with 114 runs, 52 doubles, five triples, nine home runs, 121 RBI and 13 steals over 178 contests as a four-year starter. He missed just one game over four seasons and capped his collegiate career as the Monks' all-time leader in games and at bats and is currently second in hits (219) and doubles (52), sixth in extra-base hits (66) and total bases (308), and eighth in RBI.

2014: Made 44 starts and was the only player toappear in all 45 of the Monks’ games as a junior…totaled 36 starts behind the dish and eight as the designated hitter…hit .335 (53-158) with 29 runs, 10doubles, four home runs, 25 RBI and a pair of stolen bases…also posted a .475 SLG% and a .382 OBP…tied for the lead in hits and led the team in homers... ranked second on the squad in batting, total bases (75) and slugging…also registered a .976 fielding percentage with just seven errors in 287 total chances…threw out 15 of 45 would-be base stealers…recorded 15 multiple-hit games and drove in two or more runs on six different occasions…also notched a nine-game hitting streak during the season…kicked off the campaign by going 3-5 with three runs, two doubles and a pair of RBI in a victory over Concordia on February 28th…went 4-4with two runs and an RBI versus Clark on March 1st…was 4-4with two runs, a double, a homer and three RBI against WestfieldState on March 11th…homered and knocked in three runs against Rivier on April 5th…went 5-6 with two runs, a double and four RBI in a doubleheader sweep over Albertus Magnus on April12th…hit a solo jack in a victory over NCAA Tournament bound Endicott College on May 8th…was 2-4 with a two-bagger and an RBI in an NCAA Regional win over Worcester State on May15th…collected First Team All-GNAC honors for the third-consecutive season…also claimed Third Team NEIBA All-New England and Third Team D3Baseball.com All-New England accolades.

2013: Made 44 starts – 22 behind the plate, 19 at designated hitter and three in left field – as asophomore…posted a .316 batting average (49-155)…finished with 30 runs, 49 hits, 13 doubles, one triple, one homer,36 RBI and 70 total bases along with a .452 sluggingpercentage…also worked 12 walks and was hit by pitch six times to help account for a .383 OBP…defensively, tallied181 putouts and 16 assists with six errors for a .970 fieldingpercentage…April 3rd against Emerson notched three hits,with one double, to go with three runs while driving in three in an SJC victory…smacked three hits to go with two runs and three RBI against Colby College on April 17th…April 21st against Rivier drove in a career-high four runs along with two hits and two runs in the first game of a double header, while roping three more hits in night cap…went 2-6 in the GNAC Championship game and drove in the game-winning run in the bottom of the 10th inning on a hard ground ball through the right side…earned First TeamAll-GNAC honors for the second-consecutive season.

2012: One of two players – Mike Prattbeing the other – to start all 46 of the Monks’ games,24 at designated hitter and 22 behind the dish…served as the#3 hitter in all but four contests as a freshman…hit .346(56-162) with 24 runs, 12 doubles, two triples, 24 RBI, and foursteals…led the team in hits and ranked second indoubles…registered a .413 OBP…tallied 16 multiple-hit games and six multi-RBI efforts…posted a nine-game hitting streak during the season…hit a double in his first collegiate at bat versus Endicott College on March 11th…went5-7 with a run, two doubles, a triple and three RBI in a doubleheader sweep over Framingham State on March 12th…was3-3 with two runs and an RBI versus Endicott on March13th…added three hits in four trips with a double and two RBI against Western New England on March 17th…capped theMonks’ nine-game spring trip with a .571 (16-28) batting average along with four runs, four doubles, a triple and sevenRBI…went 2-4 with two runs and an RBI in a triumph over Suffolk University on April 1st…was 2-4 with two runs, a double, and an RBI versus Lasell College on April 10th…went3-4 against Norwich University on April 18th…hit .500 (5-10)with a double and five RBI in three GNAC Tournamentvictories…recorded two hits in three trips with a double and three runs scored in a win over Gordon College on May1st…went 3-5 with a run and a double against Bates College on May 9th…drove in a pair of runs in a victory over Keene State in the NCAA New England Regional Tournament on May18th…earned First Team All-GNAC honors and selected as the GNAC Rookie of the Week on March 20th.

High School: Played infield and caught for Barney Earle and Gordon Cushing at Duxbury HighSchool…garnered Patriot League All Star honors as a juniorafter hitting .321…named captain senior year…earned the Duxbury High School baseball scholarship award…played under Ryan Kane for Duxbury Legion beside fellow freshman DanMeeken…hit .361 with 2 HR’s…Hit .417 with 2HR’s for AAU (JM Force).

Personal: Joseph Allen Coyne…son of Ronald and Christine Coyne…Exercise Science Specialist major.