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DWC baseball team looks for fund times on the Cape

By Staff | May 14, 2013

Cape Cod is a nice place to visit this time of year, and the Daniel Webster College baseball team will be looking to enjoy Harwich, Mass., for as long as possible.

In other words, not just 24 hours and gone.

The 28-10 Eagles were named the eighth and final seed in the New England Region and will begin their second straight NCAA Division III tournament experience with a game against top seed and Little East Champion Southern Maine (37-7) at 1 p.m. on Wednesday.

“We’re excited,” Eagles coach J.P. Pyne said. “When you’re a Division III baseball program in New England and you’re searching for respectability, you want to play against the traditional powers. You want to play against the Wheatons, the Southern Maines, the Western New Englands. It’s best to play the programs we’re ultimately measured against.”

The Eagles, champions of the New England Collegiate Conference for the second straight year, will see a lot of familiar schools at Harwich’s Whitehouse Field, home of the Harwich Mariners of the Cape Cod League.

Seeded second is Wheaton (30-10), last year’s NE champ and national runnerup. The No. 3 seed is Endicott (32-12), No. 4 is Western New England (31-11), MIT is No. 5 (27-11), St. Joseph’s of Maine is No. 6 (30-12), and the seventh seed is Salem State at 25-13.

If the Eagles knock off Southern Maine, they will face the winner of Western New England-MIT on Thursday at 4:30 p.m. If they lose to SMU, they will fall into the losers bracket and face the loser of the WNE-MIT game at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday.

The tournament continues through Saturday with the finals starting at 4 p.m., and, if necessary for a second finals game in the double elimination format, Sunday at noon.

Pyne has tabbed the team’s ace all year, senior Greg Dubela (8-0, 1.39) to pitch the opening game. SMU has several to choose from, but don’t be surprised if it’s junior Logan Carman, who is 10-0, 2.03. The Huskies, led by senior infielder Nick Grady (.441, two homers, 57 RBIs) hit .356 as a team.

“Offensively, one through nine, they have a lot of power,” Pyne said. “(Coach) Ed Flaherty (28 seasons) is one of the real standards as a head coach, a Hall of Famer. But the fact of the matter is they have a real good team.”

Last year the Eagles went to the Mid-Atlantic regional in Lakewood, N.J. and lost two games right away. This year, they want to change that.

“Last year’s experience was awesome,” Eagles senior shortstop/closer Rich Lizotte said. “This year’s mentality, we want to win games.

“This year’s goal was to make it back and at least win one. But I feel with the pitching staff we have, and the momentum we have right now, we could win a lot more than one game.”

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