By Sam Coombs

The SMCC baseball team enters the NECA postseason with a 10-4 record, which places the Seawolves atop the conference with the most wins. Throughout the fall season the team has mixed well and produced on the field. They hope to bring this momentum with them into the playoffs and into the spring season while keeping the same group of players together which often proves challenging at a two year college.

Offensively, the Seawolves were led by Alex Brown who batted a conference best .439 with three home runs, 13 RBI’s, and tallying 18 total hits during the regular season. He provided the team with offensive power coming through when they needed him to.

On the mound, SMCC had a variety of pitching options profiting from the diversityt as opponents had a difficult time dealing with all of the Seawolves strong pitching. Dylan Morrow and Nate Boyle were the catalysts most of the season as both had sub two ERA’s and maintaining perfect records all season. Morrow finished the season with a 1.12 ERA, team leading 26 strikeouts while allowing only two earned runs. Boyle finished the season with a 0.64 ERA and was on a roll all season providing his team with great starts, great relief appearances, and was probably the Seawolves most reliable option. These two pitchers were the ones that pitched this summer for the Old Orchard Beach Raging Tide, and it seems that they took something away from that league and progressed as pitchers.

SMCC is coming off a strong stretch to end the season and are on fire offensively outscoring their opponents 53-14 in their last five games and look to keep that up as the postseason approaches. The Seawolves have stayed disciplined, focused and sharp as a team this fall, which has showed in their play on the field and the way they carry themselves off the field. Coach Lemieux is always preaching to his team about character and being the big men on campus. This team has defiantly been that and maybe even the big men in the conference and most feared opponent.

Their lineup one through nine is tough and they hope to continue to strike fear into their opponents in the playoffs and as they approach the spring season where there record will carry over. It will be interesting to see what the playoffs and spring season will bring and to see if SMCC baseball can keep rolling.