Photo by Jenabeth Ferguson, courtesy of the Bourne Braves

Pierre LePage ‘07 recently completed a two-month stay on Cape Cod playing baseball for the Bourne Braves of the Cape Cod Baseball League, earning awards for sportsmanship and leadership. The Cape League is widely considered to be the best among the "wooden bat" summer leagues sponsored by the NCAA and Major League Baseball. Each of its ten teams is stocked with the finest college players from across the United States.

As has so often been the case in LePage's baseball career, he made the most of the opportunity to showcase his skills.  Starting every game of the season at second base, he batted .308, the sixth highest average in a league in which few hitters climb above the .300 mark.  He was third in the league in hits (49), fourth in runs scored (26) and tied for sixth in stolen bases (17).  Not coincidentally, his Bourne team finished in first place in its division during the regular season and went on to win the playoff for the league championship, the first in the team's history.  LePage's two-run single in the third inning of the final playoff game was one of the deciding blows in Bourne's 5-1 victory.

Pierre was named the winner of two of the league's most significant awards— the Sportsmanship Award as voted by the league umpires and the Manny Robello 10th Player Award, given to the player whose hustle and leadership have most benefitted his team.  No wonder Pierre recently referred to these past few months as "the best summer of my life."

Pierre, a two-time baseball captain and three-year starter at Loomis Chaffee, will be a junior at the University of Connecticut this fall where he has been a Dean's List student in business each of the last two years, as well as the starting second baseman for the Huskies baseball team.