STANDISH, Maine – Saint Joseph's College senior catcher Joe Coyne (Duxbury, Mass.) has been listed on the D3Baseball.com Team of the Week.
Coyne hit .500 (6-for-12) in three Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Tournament games last week. The senior backstop had two runs, two doubles, two home runs and six RBI in the tourney and went 4-5 with two runs, a double, two home runs and four RBI in a quarterfinal victory over Lasell College last Thursday. Defensively, Coyne handled 25 chances without an error and threw out the only runner that attempted a stolen base.
Coyne, a four-time First Team All-Conference selection and 2015 GNAC Player of the Year honoree, is currently hitting .422 (57-135) with 27 runs, 16 doubles, three home runs, 32 RBI and six stolen bases through 39 games. Earlier this season, he became the sixth player in program history to reach the 200-hit plateau and, as of May 1st, ranks second all-time with 215 career hits.
Coyne is the second player this season, joining junior closer Corey McNamara (West Newbury, Mass.), to collect D3Baseball.com Team of the Week honors and fourth overall, as former teammates Brandon Chase '13 (4/15/13) and Alex Lorenc '14 (4/29/13) also earned national acclaim during the 2013 campaign.
The Team of the Week is D3baseball.com's weekly honor roll, in its second season of recognizing the top performers at each of nine positions from the previous week. Players are selected from nominations from their school's sports information directors. This is the 11th Team of the Week of the 2015 season.
Saint Joseph's will host Bowdoin College for a single-nine inning game at 12:00 PM on Sunday.
4/28/15 D3Baseball.com Team of the Week
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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 474-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.
