ANNVILLE, Pa. – The Lebanon Valley College baseball team held a reunion this weekend for the 2002 team that won the program's first conference championship and set numerous records. The team was honored with a short ceremony in between games on Saturday.
 
The 2002 team, led by Jim Hoar, had the most successful season in program history winning a program record 26 games while qualifying for the NCAA Tournament for the first and only time in program history by defeating Messiah College in the Commonwealth Conference Championship game. The Dutchmen defeated Methodist 11-3 in their first game of the NCAA Tournament before falling to Salisbury and York to finish with a 26-19 record.
 
Tim Rink was named the Commonwealth Conference Most Valuable Player while Jim Hoar was selected as the Coach of the Year. The Dutchmen had six All-Conference selections in Rink, Joe Zelke, Brian Zellers, Chris Hotchkiss, Steve Anspach, and Dallas Noll. The team held seven team single season hitting records heading into this season. In a program record 45 games the Dutchmen had a .506 slugging percentage, 1,459 at-bats, had 459 hits including 89 doubles, 26 triples, and 46 home runs. Zielke set the program record for at-bats with 176 and hits with 63. Rink hit a program record 16 doubles while Anspach holds the record for triples with seven. Anspach also holds a couple of pitching records with 100.2 innings pitched. Noll threw a program record three shutouts and pitched a program record 9.2 innings at Messiah.
 
Rink is second in program history with a .395 career average and first in slugging at .676. Scott Montgomery is third all-time in runs scored at 105. Anspach is the all-time pitching wins leader with 20 while current assistant coach Robert Nordall is third with 13. Anspach threw 18 complete games and was the career strikeout leader with 178 until Kyle Kingsbury broke that record earlier this season.

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