Baseball

Stephens Tabbed as MCBSA Player of the Week

Posted: Mar 19, 2024

STANDISH, Maine – The Maine College Baseball & Softball Association (MCBSA) weekly awards have been released and Saint Joseph's College senior infielder Luke Stephens (Glastonbury, Conn.) has been picked as the MCBSA Player of the Week.

Stephens hit .438 (7-16) with three runs, two doubles, a triple, a home run, and three RBI in a 2-3 week for Saint Joseph's. The senior infielder was 3-4 with two runs, a double, a triple, and an RBI in a 13-6 victory over Emerson on Wednesday and went 2-4 with a solo home run in a 5-4 loss to Springfield on Thursday.

For Stephens, this counts as his first weekly honor since being named Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Rookie of the Week on April 19th, 2021.

In 99 career games, Stephens is hitting .276 (80-290) with 15 doubles, four triples, six home runs, and 52 RBI. As one of the Monks' top relievers, he is 8-5 with 12 saves, a 3.63 ERA, and 64 strikeouts – versus 23 walks – in 67 innings across 39 career appearances on the mound.

Saint Joseph's kicks off GNAC action with a pair of games at Mitchell College on Saturday. The first game is set to start at 12:00 PM.

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Founded in 1912 by the Sisters of Mercy in Portland, Maine, Saint Joseph’s College is Maine’s Catholic liberal arts college in the Mercy tradition. We are inclusive of all faiths, including no faith. The 474-acre campus, located on the shore of Sebago Lake in Standish, Maine offers more than 40 undergraduate programs and a Division III athletic program to a population of approximately 1,000 on-campus students. A pioneer of distance education since the 1970s, the College also provides online certificates and undergraduate and graduate degrees for thousands more working adults who reside in more than 20 other countries. In 2015 the College was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive its Community Engagement Classification, highlighting the College’s focus on community service throughout its mission and daily interactions within local, regional, and global communities. In 2018, Princeton Review recognized SJC as one of its “Green Colleges” for its sustainability initiatives. Learn more at www.sjcme.edu.