Baseball

Aylward & Stephens Sweep GNAC Baseball Weekly Honors

Posted: Mar 23, 2021

STANDISH, Maine – The Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) weekly accolades have been announced and a pair of Saint Joseph's College baseball players have been honored.

Senior outfielder Kevin Aylward (East Bridgewater, Mass.) has been selected as the GNAC Baseball Player of the Week and freshman Luke Stephens (Glastonbury, Conn.) has been tabbed as the GNAC Pitcher and Rookie of the Week.

Aylward hit .471 (8-17) with six runs, a double, triple, home run, and five RBI during the Monks' first 10 games of the season. He currently sports a .824 SLG% and a .526 OBP.

Stephens almost single handedly lifted the Monks to a victory over Colby College on Sunday. The freshman righthander allowed one run off three hits and fanned six batters to pick up his first NCAA win and launched a three-run homer in the bottom of the third in the 6-1 triumph.

The weekly GNAC honor is a career-first for both Aylward and Stephens.

Saint Joseph's will play a single nine-inning game at Endicott College on Wednesday at 3:30 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.