Baseball Earns NEC Spring Team Sportsmanship Award
The Central Connecticut baseball team was announced as a recipient of one of the Spring Team Sportsmanship Awards by the Northeast Conference on Tuesday.
The Central Connecticut baseball team was announced as a recipient of one of the Spring Team Sportsmanship Awards by the Northeast Conference on Tuesday.
The awards were instituted by league Presidents in 2008 and are designed to acknowledge the team in each conference sport that, in the opinion of its peers, most closely demonstrates good sportsmanship based on the NEC Principles of Sportsmanship and Standards of Conduct. Voting is conducted at the conclusion of each season by each team and head coach, who rank teams within the conference based on a set of criteria.
Baseball was recognized with the league's Sportsmanship Award for the fourth time (2012, 2014, 2017, 2023). CCSU also won the the conference's regular season crown and then went on to claim the league's tournament title for the eighth time. The Blue Devils played at the NCAA Tournament Columbia Regional.
"It is with tremendous pride that we recognize those teams that prioritize fair play and value winning with integrity at the highest level," said NEC Commissioner Noreen Morris. "It takes everyone from our student-athletes to coaches to administrators to Presidents to create an environment of respect and support during NEC athletic competitions, to be recognized by your peers for upholding these standards is the ultimate honor."
Since the NEC Team Sportsmanship program was instituted in 2008-09, Saint Francis U has won a conference-best 41 awards, followed by Sacred Heart (35), Wagner (33), CCSU (29) and LIU (26) to round out the top-five.
