United States Coast Guard Academy - Department of Athletics

Entering the 2007 season, the major concern for the Coast Guard Academy baseball team was pitching. The Bears lost NEWMAC Pitcher of the Year Mike Jarbeau and Cory Anderson, who was drafted by the Washington Nationals.

It was feast or famine for the Coast Guard pitchers during the 2007 season as they staff allowed three or less runs 10 times, however the pitchers also allowed eight or more runs in 13 games as the Bears finished 11-18 overall and 4-8 in last place in the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC).

The Bears did however advance to the NEWMAC tournament semifinals for the seventh time in eight seasons as the seventh-seeded Bears behind the pitching of junior Will Becker, knocked off second-seeded WPI 3-1 in the first round. Becker went the distance and allowed just five hits and one earned run.

Chuck Arena earned first-team All-conference honors for the second straight season.

NEW LONDON, CONN.--(5/1/07)--Senior outfielder Chuck Arena led a trio of Coast Guard players named to the 2007 New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) All-conference baseball team as voted on by the league’s seven head coaches. Arena was named to the second team for the second straight season while junior pitcher Will Becker and junior shortstop Christian George were named to the second team, both earning All-conference honors for the first time.

Arena led Coast Guard with a .328 batting average and five home runs was also second on the team with seven doubles and 25 RBI’s this season. He leaves the Academy as the all-time leader with 169 hits and is second all-time at Coast Guard with 95 RBI’s. Arena is tied for third on the career list with 11 homers, he is fifth all-time with a career .352 batting average, he is sixth with 31 doubles while appearing in 122 games. He had a school-record 33-game hitting streak that began during his sophomore season and was snapped in the second game this year. Arena earned All-conference honors for the third straight season after being named the 2004 NEWMAC Rookie of the Year.

Pete Schofield, who was perfect through the first four innings of the second game, allowed just two earned runs in eight innings.

BABSON PARK, MASS.--(4/28/07)--Jeff Wojnar’s two-out RBI single in the bottom of the 10th plated Steve Tahmoush with the game winning run as fourth-seeded Babson eliminated seventh-seeded Coast Guard from the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Tournament with a come-from-behind 5-4 win.

Coast Guard lost its first game of the day 15-12 to third-seeded MIT.

In game two, with Coast Guard leading 4-3 entering the bottom of the ninth, Bryan Evans tied the game with a lead off home run off Coast Guard starter Pete Schofield which ended Schofield’s afternoon. The Coast Guard sophomore took a perfect game into the fifth inning and allowed just five hits and two earned runs in eight innings work while walking one and striking out two.

Coast Guard got on the board in the second as Brian Lisko and Ken Franklin had back-to-back singles to lead off the inning before Babson starter Jon Igoe hit Brian Yurovich and Bret Nichols to force in a run. Igoe however managed to get out of the bases loaded no out jam without further damage.

Will Becker was spectacular as he pitched a complete game in leading the Bears past WPI.

WORCESTER, MASS.--(4/26/07)--Junior Will Becker tossed a five-hit complete game to help seventh-seeded Coast Guard, which had lost five straight, upset second-seeded host WPI 3-1 in a NEWMAC Tournament first round contest.

Coast Guard now advances to this weekend’s double elimination portion of the tournament while WPI is eliminated. The Bears have advanced to the NEWMAC tournament semifinals in seven of the last eight seasons.

Becker dodged trouble in the first when WPI loaded the bases with nobody out. He got out of trouble when third baseman Bret Nichols turned a line drive into a double play and catcher Kevin Keefe threw out a would-be base stealer to end the threat.

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