It's been a long time coming, but welcome to the new Lakers Baseball Page. In a process I started all the way back in December 2008, and something I've really moved quickly on since last month, much has changed on the site.
You guys also had a good amount of individuals receive postseason honors. Nick Barton and Shawn Place were both selected for the North-South Senior All-Star Classic, with Coach Perry serving as the North team's head coach. Only in 2000 had a pair of Lakers been chosen for a senior all-star game, as Justin Bissonnette '00 and Luke Laroche '00 were selected for Twin State, the Vermont-New Hampshire games that were discontinued after the 2007 season but are still contested in many sports. In terms of Metro League honors, six Lakers were lauded to match the 1995 team's school record. In checking through the records, I'm fairly certain Spencer Dandurand is the first Laker to ever earn three all-league honors, and joins Travis Clairmont '02 as the only CHS player to be honored twice on the first or second team as a pitcher. By my count, Nick Barton was the first Laker who was a full-time catcher to twice earn all-league accolades. Meanwhile, Jared Cayia became the first CHS sophomore ever to land on the first or second team. Additionally, Coach Barton earned the Scott Benoit Memorial Award for his contributions to the program.
In revising the record book, here are some of the fun tidbits from the year: You guys are currently riding a 16-game streak with at least one extra-base hit, surpassing the 28-year-old school record of 13. Just a very random record, but cool nonetheless ... You were among the top five in school history in season batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, runs, hits, doubles, stolen bases, fielding percentage and pitching strikeouts, and your 63 batting strikeouts were the fewest ever by a Lakers team ... You guys got plunked 17 times, a mark aided by Andrew Cootware being hit a record-tying five times and Ryan Crowley being hit four times ... 59 steals were CHS's most since 1983 ... 33 errors were one more than the school's record low, set in 1995 ... The pitching staff issued only 44 bases on balls, the fewest since the original 1976 team doled out a record-low 39. Look at it this way - the school mark for walks in a game is 15 (over eight innings), more than a third of your total from 111 innings from this entire season ... I bet you didn't know that in addition to holding or being tied for 16 CHS pitching records that Spencer is also tied for the career mark with seven sacrifice bunts ... There have been 30 shutouts pitched in school history. Spencer played a role in six of the last seven ... In the first 34 seasons in program history, Lakers tossed seven complete-game one-hitters. This year alone, Spencer tossed three, one in each month of the season. By throwing a one-hitter against BFA-St. Albans in the playdowns, it was just the third performance in school annals where a Laker yielded one hit or less during a postseason complete game.
And so, as a footnote to this season, your seven losses came to the Division I state champ (Essex), the Division I runner-up (BFA, twice), the Division II state champ (Mount Abe), not to mention three additional Division I quarterfinalists (MMU, South Burlington and Spaulding). I know it's little consolation, but it's true. And by defeating Metro League co-champ Rice, you prevented them from winning the conference outright, as the Green Knights instead tied with Essex. MMU scored only three runs at "home" against you guys, the fewest they plated at Browns River Middle School, their makeshift home, all year. You were the only team to hold Rice to fewer than three runs. And while you fell to Division I champ Essex and Division II champ Mount Abraham, you yielded six runs to an EHS team that averaged 10.9, and Mount Abe scored four against you but averaged 6.5 for the year.
I know five players graduate from the final roster, and I'm curious to see what lies in store for you all next season. Have a great summer, and best of luck with your summer, fall and winter sports before you hit the diamond once again in the spring.
Fun fact: Colchester has qualified for the postseason now 24 times in the program's 35-year history, and this is the first time the Lakers are a No. 8 seed. CHS had been everything between Nos. 3 and 7, and 9 and 13, as well as 15, 18 and 19. It's fortunate that the Lakers had never been a 14 or 16, but they maxed out at No. 3 in 1983. And you want to make history? The Lakers have never played Mount Anthony, not to mention never playing a game in Bennington County. That would leave only Essex, Grand Isle and Orange counties, though Grand Isle County doesn't have a high school, and the other two have sub-Division I schools that you typically wouldn't have an opportunity to play.
11-8 win over Milton on Tuesday: You guys scored at least 11 runs at home for the third straight game for the first time in program history, but it wasn't easy. It was CHS's 19th win ever when allowing at least eight runs, and the first time at home since a 13-12 walk-off win over St. Jay on April 20, 2000. It also marked the seventh time in 42 all-time meetings with Milton that the Lakers plated at least 11 runs, and the first time at home since an 11-6 victory on April 18, 1996. Meanwhile, it was historic for a couple other reasons: First off, after sorting through the old info I have (you guys have given me good reason to do some historical research recently!), I've come to believe that this was only the third time in program history that CHS trailed 4-0 in the first inning and ended up winning, joining a 7-6 win at Milton on May 6, 1983, and a 9-6 triumph versus visiting Middlebury on May 8, 2007. However, it was likely only the second time CHS overcame a six-run deficit to win a game. The other time I know of was on May 14, 1999, an 8-6 win against MMU at Centennial Field during my senior year. Believe it or not, we trailed 6-0 heading into the top of the seventh, where we scored all of our runs. So, of course, the common bond between these two six-run comebacks is Coach Crazy. With 64 runs in eight home games, the Lakers are averaging 8.0 runs at home, the third-highest figure in program history. The 1982 (10.1) and 2000 (8.6) teams were the only squads to score more.
9-2 win at CVU on Thursday: The victory was the Lakers' third straight over the former Crusaders, the first time CHS has done so since a stretch that spanned the 1993 and 1994 seasons. And here’s one of those statistical anomalies for you: Zach Dandurand hit two sacrifice flies, as many or more than 278 of the 296 Lakers have hit in their entire careers. Go figure. And then there's Zach's brother - Spencer Dandurand took a no-hitter into the fourth inning during a game in which he broke the 10-year-old school record for strikeouts in a season. With 75, he surpassed Justin Bissonnette's '00 mark of 69. He also became the first Laker to toss at least 50 innings in two different seasons while joining just Mike Battistini '82 and Jeff Pecor '92 as CHS hurlers who made as many as nine starts in a single season. Spencer also has seven wins, as only Doug Bergstein '82 (eight in 1982) has ever totaled more. However, Spencer's seven wins are the most ever by a Laker during the regular season and comprise the greatest figure ever compiled by a senior during a season, including play-off contests. Career-wise, in terms of records he hadn't already broken, Spencer has 13 victories, one short of Bergstein's 27-year-old program mark, and made his school-record 20th start in this game. He has also faced the most batters in program annals, surpassing Shelby Nolin's '05 record of 605.
Some other random notes from the season: Ryan Crowley is the sixth Laker with at least 10 extra-base hits in one year, and he's the 19th player with multiple homers, including the ninth junior ... Crowley is also the fourth Laker with at least eight doubles, as Jason Carey '01 hit nine in 1999, Ty Pratt '00 tied that mark in 2000, and Travis Clairmont '01 ripped eight in 2001 ... Nick Barton's 17 stolen bases are the most since Whitney Lyman '90 swiped 20 in 1990 ... Nick also has surpassed Sean Burns' '07 program records for career at bats (194) and plate appearances (221). He also joins only Carey, Bryant Perry '93 and Mike Bouffard '99 as Lakers with at least 57 hits and 45 runs ... you guys have totaled 29 doubles, trailing only the 2000 (41) and 1999 (33) teams. And a feat that I think is really cool: This year's team has stolen 56 bases, tying the fifth-highest total in school history with the most since 1983. Coach Crazy turned one year old during that season.
One additional item, one that seems self-serving, so I've put it at the end: My place of employment for the past five years, Wheaton College in Massachusetts, has cut 29 positions, one of which was mine. I was the assistant sports information director, and my boss and I were able to do some great things within the department - the most disappointing part is that the cuts were not based on a lack of performance, that's for sure. My hope is to continue working with CHS baseball as much as possible, but I am pursuing new leads with other institutions. And I wish you all the best of luck next week, hopefully a play-off run that lasts the full two weeks possible. I'm doubting that I'll be able to make any postseason games short of the state championship, which is why I send my best regards up front.
Here are some other random facts from the game: Only twice had CHS ever even trailed in a game it eventually won by 11 - the Lakers were down 1-0 heading into the top of the second inning during a 14-3 victory at Winooski on May 2, 2000; and trailed 1-0 going into the bottom of the third during a 13-2 triumph against visiting Burlington on April 30, 2001 ... the 13 total runs you guys scored in the sixth and seventh innings were the most ever scored by a CHS team in those two innings, typically the final two frames of a contest. The previous best was 11, which the Lakers plated during a 19-10 win at Vergennes on May 4, 1982 (though CHS did scored 13 in the fourth and fifth in a 20-2, five-inning win at Burlington on May 1, 1999, and tallied 12 in a 15-5, five-inning victory against visiting Middlebury on May 13, 2000 ... in scouring the notes I've taken over the years and flipping through old scorebooks, I found this was the 14th time in program history that a CHS team trailed by at least two runs in the sixth inning or later and ended up winning (and the 25th time trailing at all in the sixth or later and winning). Among those 14 games, however, the Lakers had never won by more than four runs. So, what was the previous largest win for CHS after trailing by two or more runs in the sixth inning or later? A 10-6 victory on May 11, 1976, at Vergennes in just the eighth game in school history.
Another fact that sort of amazes me - you guys have scored 15 runs three times in the past six games during a 12-day stretch. That equals the total number of times CHS scored at least 15 runs from the previous 151 games between May 12, 2001, and May 6, 2010. Meanwhile, this is the sixth time in CHS history that the Lakers have scored at least 15 runs three times during one season, but the third time that CHS was also shut out at least twice during a season in which it scored at least 15 three times.
At 8-6, CHS has posted at least eight regular-season wins in at least three straight seasons for the first time since 1998-2001, and for just the third time in school history (also 1981-84). With a 7-6 league record, it's also the first time the Lakers have recorded at least seven conference wins in three consecutive seasons.
On a day when the top two teams in the Metro League both lost (Essex to 6-7 BFA-St. Albans, and MMU saw its 12-game winning streak end against 5-8 Vergennes) and suddenly Rice moved into a tie for the league lead and Spaulding crept within one game, you guys remained in contention to finish in the top half of the league, as you're tied with Burlington and South Burlington for seventh place with two games left. All that remains are meetings with sixth-place CVU and Milton, which is tied for 12th. As far as the Division I standings go, it looks like not all of the results have been reported on the VPA site, but you appear to be in 10th right now, just 0.071 points behind CVU for ninth. The top eight teams host play-off games.
As far as the entirety of my trip, I feel compelled to provide a timeline, at least so I can see it in writing: rolled out of my parking lot in North Attleboro, Mass., at 6:52 a.m. on Thursday, made it to Colchester for lunch with my sister by 11:15 a.m. or so. Headed out to Jericho, and got there at about 3:45 p.m. After a night at my Dad's, I left Burlington at 5:30 a.m. on the nose on Friday and headed down Route 7, arriving in Williamstown, Mass., at roughly 8:45 a.m. for a 9:30 a.m. tennis match. Our women were competing in their first NCAA Tournament, at Williams College, and I was there to witness them knocking off Ithaca (N.Y.) College, 5-2, for their first NCAA Tournament victory - yet another historic moment. Due to rain, we played inside the hockey rink, but you'd have never known it was a rink if not for the folded up bleachers and random pieces of plexiglass laying about. That and the fact that I was writing and doing work for a while from the penalty box benches. On Saturday we lost to Williams, the two-time defending national champ. After handing off some Mazza's donuts to the team and joining them further down Route 7 in Lenox, Mass., for lunch, I hit I-90 and headed back toward North Attleboro, getting into my parking lot at 5:02 p.m. All in all, a satisfying experience.
On to the Burlington game. Spencer came within one strikeout of matching the program record for K's in a game, as he fanned 13 in six innings. However, the two Lakers to strike out 14 both needed all seven innings: Doug Bergstein vs. Lamoille on April 27, 1983, and Matt Sears during his no-hitter vs. Vergennes on May 11, 1985. CHS is now only 3-12 all time at Orrie Jay Field (including 3-11 against BHS). Here's how the wins have shaken out: The first win was my first varsity start, a 20-2, five-inning win on May 1, 1999 (I grounded out twice and made my only varsity error after a routine grounder took a weird hop off the quicksand they used to have in the infield there; that and freshman Travis Clairmont made his first career start at first base, so it was a really green right side of the infield. Much like you guys at MMU, the bus was with the softball team, over at Leddy Park, so I had time to be driven back to CHS by Mrs. Clairmont and then drive myself back to Leddy to see the end of the softball game. It was something like 24-23, with CHS losing on a two-out error in the seventh. Ouch). The second win at BHS was the most recent CHS game I had seen before your MMU game, a 15-1 victory on May 5, 2006. And then your guys' win was obviously the third. Having said all this, I'm told that Colin Burns hit a home run in this game, the 11th contest of his varsity career. His brother, Sean, who now plays for Division II UMass-Lowell, has also hit one home run ... in 182 games during seven years of varsity high school and college baseball (it came during his freshman year of college). And in tracking back to the research I did for Ryan Crowley's home run last year, Colin became just the ninth sophomore in program history to homer:
[Editor's addition, May 19: After receiving the stats, I've come to find that Zach Tandy also K'd two in the seventh, so you guys set a school record with 15 strikeouts in a game. And Nick Barton received them all as catcher, so his 15 putouts tie Travis Clairmont's '02 single-game record, which was set in an eight-inning game on April 26, 2001, at first base. Thus, Nick holds the record for a regulation seven-inning game. Other things - Spencer struck out eight straight at one point ... Colin's homer was inside the park. I can't even wager a guess as to the last time a Laker hit an inside-the-parker, mostly because everyone has a fence these days (and BHS used to) ... in the It's a Record, But It's Not a Glamorous Record department, this marked the second straight game CHS did not commit an error. Yes, this ties a school record. ... Also in this game, Spencer broke the career record for innings pitched, surpassing Shelby Nolin's '05 mark of 125-1/3 innings.]
Nick Barton certainly made your 15-0 win over St. Johnsbury memorable, leading off his program-record-tying 60th career game with his first career home run, the first leadoff dinger by a Laker since Jason Carey '01 on May 7, 2001, a 12-2 win over visiting Middlebury. He tied Sean Burns for first in games played during your second 15-0 win in four games, matching the program total from the team's first 580 games! It was just the ninth Lakers victory that came by at least 15 runs in school history, just seven days after the eighth. And this was after the seventh and eighth occurred exactly 10 years apart (May 11, 2000 and 2010). Amazing. The Lakers have also homered in three straight games, the longest stretch since going deep in six consecutive contests between May 12 and 19, 2000. Since losing the first eight all-time meetings with St. Johnsbury, CHS is now 11-4 against the Hilltoppers since 1996. The win over St. Johnsbury was also the 250th in program history. Here's a breakdown of milestone wins:
[Editor's addition, May 19: And what else did Nick do on his milestone day? Oh, he only broke Doug Bergstein's '83 27-year-old program record for career stolen bases. Doug had 34; Nick has 36 ... Dear Lakers, as a team, you guys have 47 stolen bases. With nine more, you'd have your most since 1983. That'd be pretty awesome if you got there, as I'd begun to assume base stealing was a lost art form. Yours truly, Josh ... Here's something else I'd forgotten to mention: Not only was your 15-0 win over Middlebury last week a tie for the largest shutout victory in program history, it marked just the fourth time in program history that CHS scored in every inning - and, as it happened, each of those four wins came in five innings. And then St. Johnsbury happened. Not only did you tie the largest shutout win (again), it was the second time in four games that you guys scored in every inning - after CHS scored in every inning only three times in its first 580 games since the program was established in 1976. But it was the first time the Lakers scored in every inning during a game that lasted longer than five innings.]
Let's jump right back into the fun stuff. Prior to you guys being shut out consecutively by Mount Abraham and Essex, the Lakers had only been blanked in back-to-back games five times in program history, last on April 29 and May 2, 1997. Oh, but what a way to release your frustration today, guys. The 15-0 win over Middlebury matched the largest shutout win in program history (also done May 5, 1994, at North Country and May 23, 1995, vs. South Burlington) and was just the eighth win in program history that came by at least 15 runs. The last time CHS snapped a losing streak of at least three games with a 15-run outburst was 1994, and you surpassed the previous record for the most runs by a Lakers team in a game immediately after it had been blanked (won 13-4 vs. Vergennes on May 18, 1978). The last time CHS scored at least 15 runs was, oddly enough, that aforementioned most recent game I saw: a 15-1 win at Burlington on May 5, 2006. (Meanwhile, the 2000 and 2001 teams combined to plate at least 15 runs six times; this was just the third time since the beginning of 2002 the Lakers scored 15 times.) It was also the largest victory by either CHS or Middlebury in the teams' 41-game series history, as the margin had been 10 five times previously. And, finally, the last time the Lakers won a game by at least 15 runs was exactly 10 years ago today - May 11, 2000, a 16-1 win over Vergennes (at CHS, with Vergennes playing the home team).
Since last I wrote, Nick Barton and Spencer Dandurand have broken some career records. The less glamorous but incredibly long-standing marks are the ones Nick surpassed: He broke the putouts standard on May 1 at South Burlington, eclipsing the mark of 311 held by Dave Monty '85 since 1985; at Essex last Thursday, he broke Monty's total chances record of 376. Against Mount Abraham last Tuesday, Spencer broke Travis Clairmont's '02 strikeouts record, which had stood at 122 for eight years now. (Seems so recent that Travis broke the record of 117, which Doug Bergstein '83 had held for 19 years; hard to believe that was almost a decade ago.) [For those not up to speed on your baseball jargon, a putout is credited to the defensive player who actually secures the ball for an out. A total chance is a putout, an assist or an error.]
As I try to do each year, I try to break down the success of teams that post a certain record through the first eight games, which comprise half of the regular-season slate:
| Season | Start | Finish | Overall
| 1976
| 4-4
| 4-3
| 8-7
| 1979
| 4-4
| 1-6
| 5-10
| 1984
| 4-4
| 5-4
| 9-8
| 1993
| 4-4
| 6-4
| 10-8
| 1994
| 4-4
| 4-6
| 8-10
| 1998
| 4-4
| 4-5
| 8-9
| |
|---|
What I gather from this is that after a .500 start, it's hard to gain traction down the stretch. Having said that, I believe this morning you guys stood 11th in Division I. You had yet to face the bottom three teams in the Metro League and a few squads comparable to your own. I'd like to think you'll be much closer to the 1993 team, if not better. You had thus far sustained losses to a team that has lost only once and broke out for 28 runs the game after you held them to six runs, all in one inning (Essex); another that has scored at least a dozen runs four times (BFA-St. Albans); and a team running away with the Division II points lead (Mount Abraham). Clearly, MMU will be a heckuva test on Thursday, as the Cougars are tied for second in D-I, but then again, your meeting will be MMU's third game during a four-day stretch in which they play each day. That is a game I'd love to see.
But here's the fun fact for the day: With Zach Dandurand, Chris, Josh and Zach Tandy all pitching, I decided trying to research the last time CHS used at least four pitchers in a game it won or just barely lost, and what I found was the Lakers last met all of the criteria on April 24, 1982, a 10-9 win over visiting Lamoille. According to the line score reported to the Burlington Free Press, Jeremy Goulet started, Bob Degree took over in the fourth inning, John Bond and Doug Bergstein each made relief appearances in the fourth, and Scott Weinheimer came on the fifth and eventually notched the win. Those were different days back then, too - the Lakers swatted three home runs, though I believe there was no fence at CHS at the time; Paul Choiniere hit two, including the second of back-to-back shots with Brian Bittner with two down in the sixth that turned a 9-8 deficit into the eventual 10-9 win.
So with your guys' current run of three games in three days (though the snow and back into the warm weather...), you've already knocked off 2007 Division II state champ Vergennes, which returned to the Metro League this year after leaving following the 2002 season, and Rice, which had scored 60 runs during its 5-0 start (12.0 runs per game) and was atop the state's power rankings, as opined by the Burlington Free Press' Alex Abrami, a former Saint Mike's classmate of mine.
Let's run through the past few games, as I didn't update anything for the BFA game while also seeming to have ignored Vermont's oddly timed snow storm (editor's note: We did not receive any snow in Massachusetts, just for those of you considering leaving the state for college):
But as you can see, Spencer's outing was the first decided by fewer than four runs. Fun facts for the night: Colchester is closing in on having a .500 record at home with Rice, having gone 7-8, but the Lakers have still somehow been outscored 110-74. It's possible our loss on Senior Day 1999, 24-3 in five innings in the rain, had something to do with that. It's also CHS's first five-game winning streak against Rice since a stretch that spanned from 1992 to 1995. The Lakers now have posted one-run wins over Rice in consecutive seasons for the first time, and after totaling two one-run wins in the teams' first 29 meetings. This is also the first time CHS allowed one run or less at home against the Green Knights since June 10, 1993, when the former Little Indians were blanked, 4-0.
Other random tidbits: Congratulations on Spencer, whose appearance against South Burlington during the season opener was his 29th career pitching appearance, breaking the school record he had tied during his last game in 2009 ... As Zach Dandurand picked up the save against Missisquoi, the Dandurands now own seven of the 42 saves recorded in the 35-year history of the program ... Congratulations to Colin Burns, Jared Cayia, Casey Moore, Chris Poirier and Zach Tandy on their first varsity hits (some of us only have one...), and congrats to Chris on his first win, against Vergennes.
Oh, right, and the last time CHS started 4-1 was 2000. Ask Coach Crazy how far that team went.
For the third time in four years, you guys won your season opener - a 9-2 win at Saddlemire Field over South Burlington - so considerable congratulations on that, but this is just the beginning of this little write-up. Time for some fun facts:
And perhaps my favorite fact out of all of this, yet the most obscure one - those are always the best, yet also the most tedious to research - is that this marked just the sixth time in program history that the Lakers played the same team in back-to-back games ... and the first time since 1983 they won the rematch. (And, of course, it was the third time South Burlington was the opponent. Meanwhile, notice that two of these instances of playing the same team in back-to-back games came during the same five-day stretch 27 years ago.)
Well, it's about that time again. The dawning of another baseball season. Due to the inclement weather yesterday, CHS's opener with South Burlington was postponed until tomorrow, with the game slated to mark just the second Monday season opener in the program's 35-year history. (The Lakers lost to visiting North Country, 8-1, on April 21, 1997.) It will also be Colchester's sixth opener against the Rebels, the most out of any opponent, including the fifth against South Burlington since 2003. With Vergennes rejoining the Metro League this season, and the league bumping its membership back up to 16, teams will now play 15 league games instead of 14, so tomorrow will be CHS's only non-league regular-season game of the year.
The Lakers begin the season with 17 players on the squad, their most since 2006, and with four sophomores on the roster, this is just the ninth time in program history that at least four sophomores will be on the team at some point in the season. It's also the third straight year CHS can make that claim, a first in school history.
Anyhow, there are some random pieces of information to begin your spring with. I hope to continue writing as the season moves along. Good luck this spring, Lakers, and thanks to everyone for their help in piecing information together thus far.
It's been a long time coming, but welcome to the new Lakers Baseball Page. In a process I started all the way back in December 2008, and something I've really moved quickly on since last month, much has changed on the site.
A major goal of mine was to make the site no longer look as though a 15 year old had created it, as that's how old I was when I started putting the early pages together in 1997. Thus I worked toward a more consistent design from page to page, including incorporating CHS's colors of Royal Blue and Kelly Green, as well as removing the old wood paneling. Hopefully I've succeeded. The old Yearly History pages are now in Past Seasons, which has plenty of content that I had kicking around but no longer had space for on the hosting server. Thanks to moving to a new server and now having 10 gigs instead of 10 megs, such information as archived Metro League standings, old available box scores and team points program standings from the past few years are available.
With the uncertainty of the Metro Web site, which apparently was the first site in the country dedicated to a high school baseball league when former CVU coach Adam Provost put it together in 1996, I've put info I had together to create historical Metro pages - including a written history - on the Lakers Baseball Page. I also have the tentative composite schedule for 2010, as I'm hoping I can provide as much information - both current and historical - while I wait to see if anyone will be continuing on with the Metro League page.
I've also begun putting more of an emphasis on incorporating photos, and I'm working as we speak to get some old photos I've found or been given through the years onto the site. Some are also from old Burlington Free Press microfilm printouts, but they're better than nothing at this point. [One of the photos can be seen to the right of Rob Shepard '91 during graduation ceremonies in 1991. It's certainly the most moving image I've ever seen that relates to CHS baseball, as I've always believed that the Scott he's referring to on his mortarboard is Scott Benoit '89, who died in 1991.] Senior Nick Barton's mother, Joanne, has also provided photos for galleries from the 2008 and 2009 seasons, and I implore alums to send along old photos if they have some available. Without help from alums, this site cannot grow - many have provided tremendous help with photos, old uniform numbers and captains - and while I'd like to think this could be the final design ever for the site, I'd love to continue adding information. To be honest, I've just taken digital photos of some photos I have so I can at least put them on a computer, and that's certainly something I'd be happy to take if you're willing. Facebook has also become an invaluable tool with tracking down some former ballplayers. For instance, I've been in touch with Jim Kipp '82, who lays claim to being the only player in program history to finish with a perfect 1.000 batting average. And come to find that he lives one town over from me down here in Massachusetts.
As I move forward with the site, I'll be getting the 2010 schedule posted soon enough, and I'll continue on with posting info as the season gets closer. Thanks to all who have been so helpful in the past, and thanks in advance for your help in the future.