SYRACUSE --

The seniors on the Le Moyne Baseball team have been waiting their whole college careers to show how great they can be in the post season, and on Tuesday they departed on a mission to continue living that post season dream, having earned themselves a spot in the NCAA's Division II East Regional Tournament.

Head Coach and former major leager, Scott Cassidy, says his team is more than ready for the double elimination challenge, starting with 5th seeded Wilmington on Thursday.

"The teams that we've played in the past few years were some of the top notch teams in the country," says Cassidy, "we visited Texas A & M and Florida State and Louisville and teams like that, and we've held our own with all of them. I think (the team) knowing that they're never out of any game really helps to feed them throughout the post season"

The Dolphins reached this point by sweeping Franklin Pierce this past weekend to win the Northeast-10 Conference Championship. Junior Paul Speicher tied the first game with a two-run home run in the sixth inning, and hit the go-ahead two-run single in the seventh inning of the second game to help wrap up the championship. It’s the late inning heroics that the Dolphins say give them confidence that they cam pull off just about anything.

"There's no quit policy on our team" says senior pitcher and infielder Matt Mara, "we're gonna go hard for all nine innings, no matter how hard we're down, if we're even up by a ton of runs, there's no quit and we're gonna go after them".

"We've got a great bullpen" says Brett Botsford, "and they always keep us in the game, and we always know that we just have to score a couple runs and our pitching will hold it down for us, and that's all we have to do as hitters."

"We're just going to go in and play our own game," adds Cassidy, "we're not going to change anything to any specific team, we're gonna try to get guys on base, move them over, get them in. We're not a team that's gonna win a slugfest you know, we have to manufacture some runs. We play good baseball, we play old school baseball."

First pitch against Wilmington on Thursday is at 3 PM in Souther New Hampshire.