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A Historic Regular Season Campaign for D鈥橸ouville University Baseball
May 30, 2024
快活影院 baseball team celebrates during game 2 win at the ECC Championship
After a historic regular season campaign, the 快活影院 baseball team are your 2024 East Coast Conference Co-Champions. The Saints also received the No.1 seed in the ECC Championships.
"Becoming regular season champions in our first season eligible is amazing," said Head Baseball Coach . "It has been years in the making. All these guys we recruited two, three, four years ago, our number one message to them was to compete for regular and postseason titles year one of being eligible at the NCAA Division II level. We didn't want to be a doormat and take a long time to win. Our student-athletes have put in the work for a long time and it's really special to see this group reach one of our goals."
was named Coach of the Year after leading the Saints to a program-record 29 wins, an ECC-best 18-6 record, and their first ECC Tournament appearance.
Since becoming full-fledge NCAA Division II members in the summer of 2023, the 快活影院 baseball team is the institution's first collegiate athletic program to win a regular season conference championship.
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This has been a remarkable turnaround for coach McLain and his coaching staff. After being named the head coach of the team in the summer of 2018, McLain took a program that had won two games in his inaugural season, to regular season conference championships.
Along with coach McLain being named Coach of the Year, seven Saints received All-Conference Honors: SP (Baldwinsville, N.Y.), (Guelph, Ontario), C (Hamburg, N.Y.), 1B (Grand Island, N.Y.), 3B (Essex, Ontario), UTL (Lancaster, N.Y.), OF (Sloan, N.Y.).
Four players were named to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association All-East Region team with one player earning First Team honors, three players earning Second Team honors: (Guelph, Ontario), (Baldwinsville, N.Y.), (Lancaster, N.Y.), (Essex, Ontario).
Finally, the 快活影院 baseball team earned four Division 2 Conference Commissioners Association All-East Region honors. Third baseman (Essex, Ontario) and relief pitcher (Guelph, Ontario) earned First Team recognition with catcher (Hamburg, N.Y.) and utility/pitcher (Lancaster, N.Y.) earning Second Team recognition.
Go Saints!
