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Stephens Named D3Baseball.com Third Team All-New England

Posted: Jun 02, 2021

STANDISH, Maine – The 2021 D3Baseball.com All-Region teams have been announced and Saint Joseph's College freshman Luke Stephens (Glastonbury, Conn.) has earned Third Team All-New England accolades.

Stephens, a two-way player for the Monks, posted a 1.47 ERA with a 3-0 record and 19 strikeouts – versus just six walks – in 18.1 innings on the mound and hit .294 (20-68) with 15 runs, five doubles, two home runs, and 14 RBI as a middle-of-the-order bat during his first collegiate campaign.

The freshman standout also garnered First Team All-GNAC honors this spring and was selected as the 2021 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Rookie of the Year.

Under the watch of 29th-year Head Coach Will Sanborn '86, Saint Joseph's posted a 16-11 overall record with a 6-2 mark in conference play. The Monks were in position to earn the #1 seed in the GNAC Tournament before the season was cut short in late April.

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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.