05/11/2009
2009 Baseball Season Recap

The Clark University baseball team set four new school team records and saw three players hit new individual marks en route to a 14-21 (4-8 NEWMAC) ledger. The Cougars, who tied for 16th in Division III in triples, broke the Clark mark in the category (21), as well as in hits (331), doubles (67) and RBI (209). Junior Phil DiMarco, sophomore Scott Hollingsworth, and freshman Mitch DeLorenzo etched their names in Clark annals in triples (8), hits (T-47) and doubles (17), respectively, this spring.

Other highlights from the Cougars record-breaking year included an 8-6 regular season win over eventual NEWMAC Champions and NCAA Tournament team Babson College and an 8-7 extra-inning affair against the WPI Engineers, who also qualified for the national tournament.

Two student-athletes represented Clark on the All-NEWMAC team. Hollingsworth became the first Clark player named to the first-team all-star squad since Scott Archibald '06 in 2005, while DiMarco took home second-team honors for the first time in his career.

In the classroom, senior closer Dave Gagnon received the athletic departments Russ Granger award, presented to the student-athlete who has combined academic excellence with athletic achievement. Gagnon along with sophomores Ben Seel and Daniel Vladimer also earned NEWMAC All-Academic recognition. It was the trio's first appearance on the league's Academic All-Star team.