STANDISH, ME – Saint Joseph's College senior pitcher Nick Whittaker (Yarmouth, Maine), junior catcher Joe Coyne (Duxbury, Mass.) and sophomore reliever Corey McNamara (West Newbury, Mass.) have earned 2014 D3Baseball.com New England All-Region honors.
Whittaker claims Second Team All-New England accolades after going 6-3 with a 2.61 ERA and 83 strikeouts while allowing just 58 hits and a .223 opponents' batting average over 69 innings as a senior. The 2014 First Team All-Conference honoree paced the SJC pitching staff in innings, K's and complete games (4) this spring and his punch-out tally – which currently ranks as the fourth-highest in program history – is the most by a St. Joe's pitcher since Charlie Furbush fanned a team-record 115 batters in 2006.
Coyne, a three-time First Team All-Conference selection and 2014 Third Team NEIBA All-New England honoree, collects Third Team D3Baseball.com All-Region accolades after hitting .329 (52-158) with 29 runs, 10 doubles, four homers and 25 RBI as the Monks' primary catcher with 36 starts behind the dish this season.
McNamara, a Third Team D3Baseball.com New England All-Region selection, takes his second regional honor after posting a 1.49 ERA with a 5-1 record and five saves over 19 appearances and 48.1 innings as a jack-of-all-trades pitcher for the Monks this season. The 2014 GNAC Tournament Most Valuable Player led the SJC staff in ERA, appearances, saves and opponents' batting average (.211) this spring and posted the second-lowest WHIP (0.93) in team history as a sophomore.
This season, Saint Joseph's went 30-15 overall and 11-3 in GNAC play under the watch of 22nd-year Head Coach Will Sanborn '86 en route to notching the program's ninth conference title (three NAC, six GNAC) over the last 10 years. With the GNAC title, the Monks earned a berth into the NCAA DIII New England Baseball Regional Tournament for the eighth time in the last nine seasons. As the #6 seed playing at Whitehouse Field in Harwich, Massachusetts, Saint Joseph's defeated #7 Worcester State and #8 Mitchell College but suffered losses to #3 Tufts University and #5 MIT to bow out of the regional tourney.
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| Nick Whittaker | Joe Coyne | Corey McNamara |
2014 D3BASEBALL.COM NEW ENGLAND ALL-REGION TEAMS
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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 430-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.
