Signature Win: One might have to consider 14 wins in this category for the 2013 Fords who opened the season with a team record-setting 14-game win streak. Heading into the season the best start to a season was a 10-0 mark by the 2011 squad but this spring's start smashed that record. The record-setting victory was a 3-0 win over visiting St. John Fisher College in the opener of a Saturday double-header. That twinbill's nightcap was one of the most exciting in the win streak. Trailing Fisher 9-4 entering the bottom of the seventh inning Haverford pushed one run across then added another in the eighth to draw within three. Luke Frankiw's one-out single to left field plated Nick Ott and Alex Hudak to cap off a three-run bottom of the ninth for a come-from-behind win that kept the streak alive at 12 consecutive victories. Later in the season All-American Tommy Bergjans took center stage in another noteworthy victory on April 20 against visiting Washington College in the opener of a Centennial Conference double-header. Bergjans registered a complete-game victory, 4-2, for the Fords surrendering one earned and one unearned run off six Shoremen hits and a pair of walks while fanning 18 to set a single-game program record (breaking the old mark of 15 he'd set in 2012 during his freshman season) for strikeouts.

Notes: Tommy Bergjans was named the Centennial's pitcher of the year, a first for a Haverford hurler. He was also one of only two unanimous first-team all-conference selections … Casey Fox and Bergjans were the only underclassmen players voted first-team all-league players … The team's 27 wins equaled the second-most in a season, surpassed only by the 32 from the 2011 squad … The Fords, with 146 steals, led the league in stolen bases for the fifth time in the past six seasons … Haverford's defense was solid, committing only 60 errors, fewest in the league, in nearly 1,500 chances … The pitching staff gave up the fewest hits, 322, in the Centennial … Bergjans set a program record for strikeouts in a single season with 89. His average of 12.39 strikeouts per nine-inning games is also a new program record … Kevin Goff set a program record for saves in a season with seven … Nick Miranda set a program record for runs scored with 50 … Freshman catcher Nick Ott handled 165 chances behind the plate without comitting an error for a perfect fielding percentage ... The Fords were nationally ranked for most of the year (as high as #13) ... Haverford made its 8th Centennial playoff appearance in the last 9 years ... The 2013 campaign saw the Fords go 8-0 vs. 2012 NCAA Tournament teams and 5-3 vs. 2013 NCAA Tournament teams.

Postseason Awards:

• All-American: D3baseball.com – Tommy Bergjans (second team, pitcher)
• All-Mid-Atlantic Region: D3baseball.com – Bergjans (first team, pitcher), Alex Hudak (designated hitter, second team), Casey Fox (third team, third base); ABCA – Fox (first team, utility), Bergjans (second team, pitcher)
• Centennial Conference, Pitcher of Year: Bergjans
• All-Centennial Conference: First team – Bergjans (pitcher), Fox (third base), Hudak (DH); Honorable mention – William Bannard (shortstop), Nick Miranda (center field)
• Fulbright Scholarship: Kevin Goff
• Philadelphia Inquirer/Philly-SIDA Academic All-Area Team: Bergjans, Fox, Goff
• All-Centennial academic honor roll: Jonny Black, Justin Coulter, Fox, Luke Frankiw, Goff, Matt Liscovitz, Miranda, Marley Randazzo, Mike Tentilucci

Looking Ahead: The program has achieved a level at which it replaces rather than retools for departed talent, so the loss of a pair of bats in the starting lineup along with a pair of arms on the mound should only be a matter of how Coach Beccaria manages the roster to maintain its elite level of production.

Tommy Bergjans, entering his junior year, will lead the starting rotation and should chase down the career strikeout record for the program (210, Chaon Garland 1988-90) after finishing up his first two seasons with a total of 167. And Kyle Waney '14 will likely get the starting nod often during his senior campaign. Patrick Falkoff (2-2, 27.1 IP) is a strong candidate to take the ball in the late innings of his senior season, but juniors-to-be Clay Bloszies (1.26 ERA, 3-1, 28.2 IP) and Max Gerard (3.28 ERA, 4-135.2 IP) could move into that role allowing Falkoff to join in the starting rotation.

At the plate, recent graduate Alex Hudak's production from the DH spot will have to be accounted for but Beccaria will still have Casey Fox threatening opposing pitchers while seniors William Bannard and Nick Miranda set the table from the top of the order. Sophomore-to-be Nick Ott handled most of the catching duties during his first season with the program and added a solid bat to the attack as did first basemen Justin Coulter who returns for his final season. The offense generates lots of runs via havoc on the base paths and should do so again with Miranda, Fox, Bannard, Mike Tentilucci and Zach Taylor returning to help the Fords try to repeat as the leader in stolen bases within the Centennial.