Reuillard, Coyne & Sanborn Collect D3Baseball.com All-New England Honors

Reuillard, Coyne & Sanborn Collect D3Baseball.com All-New England Honors

STANDISH, Maine – The 2015 D3Baseball.com All-Region teams have been announced and three Saint Joseph's College players have garnered All-New England accolades.

Junior outfielder Taylor Reuillard (Biddeford, Maine) has collected First Team honors while senior catcher Joe Coyne (Duxbury, Mass.) and senior utility man Lincoln Sanborn (Standish, Maine) have earned Second Team acclaim.

Reuillard, a 2015 First Team All-Conference selection, claims the first regional award of his career after hitting .402 (66-164) with 35 runs, 15 doubles, four triples, a home run, 29 RBI and 10 stolen bases. The junior slugger led the Monks in at bats (164), runs, hits (66), sac bunts (9) and stolen bases and was second on the team in doubles, RBI, slugging (.561) and OBP (.421) as a junior. His 2015 hit tally is tied for the fifth-most in the history of SJC baseball.

Through three seasons, Reuillard owns a .350 (128-366) batting average with 60 runs, 26 doubles, six triples, two homers, 57 RBI and 18 steals over 111 career contests.

A four-time First Team All-GNAC selection and 2015 Conference Player of the Year honoree, Coyne earns D3Baseball.com honors for the second-consecutive season after batting .404 (61-151) with 31 runs, 17 doubles, two triples, three homers, 36 RBI and six steals in 43 contests, including 35 behind the plate. A 2014 D3Baseball.com Third Team All-Region honoree, Coyne led the Monks in doubles, home runs, slugging (.603) and OBP (.480) and ranked second on the squad in hits (61) as a senior.

The four-year starter hit .350 (219-626) with 114 runs, 52 doubles, five triples, nine home runs, 121 RBI and 13 steals over 178 career contests. Coyne 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.

Sanborn, a 2012 D3Baseball.com Third Team All-New England honoree, collects Second Team mention after playing key roles on the mound and at third base as a senior. On the hill, Sanborn was 4-3 with a 3.74 ERA while fanning 26 batters over 33.2 innings spanning seven starts. Despite having not logged a single at bat for two years (injured in 2013, pitcher only in 2014), the two-year captain emerged as a middle-of-the-order bat for the Monks, hitting .322 (39-121) with 29 runs, 10 doubles, two triples, a home run, 22 RBI and four steals over 38 games. Sanborn, a 2015 First Team All-GNAC selection, was equally valuable with the glove at the hot corner, particularly down the stretch when he committed just two miscues over 14 games and 42 total chances.

For his career, the two-way player hit .309 (64-207) with 49 runs, 15 doubles, two triples, a homer, 36 RBI and five stolen bases while posting an 18-4 record with a 2.78 ERA and 140 K's over 145.2 innings on the mound in three seasons. Sanborn, who transferred to Saint Joseph's after one season at NCAA DI St. John's University, ranks among the Monks' all-time pitching leaders in victories, ERA, BB/9 ratio and WHIP.

Saint Joseph's, the top seed in the 2015 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Tournament, opened postseason play with a 7-0 defeat over Lasell College on April 23rd, but fell out of contention with losses to Suffolk University (the eventual conference champion) and Johnson & Wales University on April 25th. The loss to JWU snapped a five-year GNAC title streak and left the Monks outside of the NCAA DIII New England Regional Tournament for the first time since 2009 and just the second time since 2006.

 

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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.