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BASEBALL

THE PROGRAM
Baseball begins its 39th season on the Northampton campus steeped in tradition, thanks to two baseball icons.  Longtime athletic director Bill Bearse guided the Spartans from 1973-80, compiling a 118-52 record winning the EPCC Tournament title in 1979.  John Sweeney took in his place in the NCC dugout in 1995 and compiled a staggering 454 wins by the time he retired in 2007.  The program has won 21 Eastern Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference (EPCC) championships and five (5) Pennsylvania Collegiate Athletic Association (PCAA) titles.  Baseball enters a new era in 2008-09, as begins its inaugural season of competition in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) and Region XIX.

EPCC Titles: 1979, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 (Spring), 2002 (Spring), 2003 (Spring), 2003 (Fall), 2004 (Spring), 2004 (Fall), 2006 (Spring), 2006 (Fall), 2007 (Spring), 2007 (Fall).

PCAA Championships: 1990, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2003,


COACHING STAFF
Head Coach:  Adrian Yaguez
Phone:  610-332-6559
Email:  ayaguez@northampton.edu

Assistant Coach: Mike Pacchioli


          Coach Yaguez

COACHES BIO:
A name familiar to baseball fans in the Lehigh Valley, Adrian Yaguez begins his first full season as the skipper of the NCC Spartans.  Yaguez, who also serves as the Assistant Director of Athletics, inherits the task of leading the baseball program into their inaugural season of play in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA).  A perennial powerhouse in the Eastern Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference (EPCC), the baseball team will make the transition this year into Region XIX of the NJCAA, with the opportunity to compete for Regional and National Championships.  Yaguez, the Head Coach of the Lehigh Valley Catz of the ACBL for the last 6 years, brings a wealth of baseball knowledge and experience to the dugout at Northampton.  Yaguez has served as an Assistant Coach at NCC, Phillipsburg High School and NCAA Division I Lafayette College.  Success has followed Yaguez, an ACBL Championship in 2003, EPCC Championships during his tenure at NCC and a trip to the NCAA College World Series Regionals while a member of the staff at Lafayette in 2007.

An active member of various youth organizations and a featured speaker at numerous coaching clinics, Yaguez has had over 40 players sign professional contracts, including a 4th round pick by the St. Louis Cardinals in 2004.  Yaguez received his bachelors degree from DeSales University and his masters degree from East Stroudsburg University.  A native of New Jersey, Coach Yaguez resides in Easton with his wife Erika.


2008-09 SEASON

Fall 2008 Baseball Roster

Click on the link below to access the Spartans Fall 2008 Schedule:
2008 Fall Baseball Schedule

Date                       Oppoenent                           Scores                                   Record    
September 10       CC of Philadelphia                18-0                                 1-0
September 13       Lehigh-Carbon CC                11-4                                 2-0  
September 20       Luzerne CCC                        4-10                                2-1
September 25       Lehigh-Carbon CC                 5-2                                  3-1
October 1            Luzerne CCC                        4-7                                  3-2
October 5            Lehigh-Carbon (EPCC Tourn)   8-13                                3-3