About ASA BaseballAfter a respectable 17-13 season finish in its first season of existence as a program in 2009, the ASA baseball team came back with a bang in 2010. The team finished with a 31-12 overall record including a number of team highlights for the season. The Avengers ended the regular season with a 27-10 win-loss record, with key wins against Region XV powers, Nassau (Division III) and Monroe College (Division I). Between March 13, 2010 and May 2, 2010, the Avengers were only defeated six times in thirty-one tries. That strong effort during the regular carried over into the post-season where the team would go head-to-head against conference rival, Monroe College in a three-game Region XV Division I championship series. Despite dropping the final two meetings with Monroe towards the end of the regular season, the Avenger bats would come alive in Game 1 of the series, winning in dramatic fashion by the score of 13-12. Game 2 proved that ASA had the right to move on to the Region XX championships in Hagerstown, MD, as freshman lefty pitcher, Michael Avila (Glendale, NY/Aviation H.S.), tossed eight solid innings to get the 12-4 win and series sweep. The title would allow the Avengers to move on to the Region XX tournament, with the winner advancing to the Eastern District Championships against the winner of the North Carolina and South Carolina conference winners. ASA would make a strong push to the championship round of the tournament, winning two games against Chesapeake and #1 seeded host, Hagerstown, before falling to Potomac State in heartbreaking fashion 12-11 in the finals of the tournament. |
