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Program Notes

Sean VanderVliet '08

The 2006 baseball season at Bates saw a number of records drop, none more significant than the fact that the Bobcats reached double figures in wins for the fifth consecutive season, a first for the 134-year-old program.

The Bobcats had an impressive list of record breaking players in 2006.  Two players, sophomores Erik Hood and Brian Mahoney, had several records broken.  Hood and Mahoney each broke the previous school record for number of hits in a season of 43, with 44 and 48, respectively.  As a team the Bobcats broke the record for collective number of hits with 310.  Hood and Mahoney broke the record for number of games played in a season, with 34 each, while sophomores Brian Buckley and Casey McCormack also broke the previous record with 33 and 32 games respectively.  Mahoney also broke the record for at-bats in a season with 129, and Hood followed with 119. 

Position-player leaders for batting average were Mahoney with .372, Hood with .370, and Ben Thayer, a sophomore, with .333.   Hood and Mahoney also led the team in RBIs with 28 and 23 respectively.  Buckley, serving as a closer for much of the season ended with a 0.00 ERA, with righthander Dan Cook, a sophomore, in the number 2 spot with an ERA of 3.54. 

Head coach Craig Vandersea, assistant coaches Bob Flynn, Mike Connor and Jon Furbush '05 and rest of the team look forward to another full season in 2007 with 33 games scheduled and a majority of their players returning. 

The Bobcats play their home games on Leahey Field, which boasts an outdoor batting cage, pro-style dugouts and a drainage system that makes the field usable as early as the last week in March. Indoor practices are held in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building, which has a batting cage and room for a full infield practice.