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Monmouth Baseball Coach Dean Ehehalt Joins 300-Win Club
4/15/2005
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West Long Branch, NJ -- Dean Ehehalt, who is in his 12th season at the helm of the Hawks’ baseball program and 14th overall, earned his 300th career victory on Wednesday as the Hawks defeated Wagner in a Northeast Conference doubleheader.
Ehehalt, the school’s all-time leader in wins (301), has guided the Hawks to eight NEC tournament appearances, including a league-record seven straight. He also led Monmouth to five NEC Championship games from 1998 to 2003, and NEC titles and NCAA Regional appearances in 1998 and 1999.
Last season, the Blue and White made its sixth straight postseason appearance and finished the campaign with a 22-29-1 record, its ninth 20-win season in nine years. The Middletown, N.J., native has also posted two 30-win seasons in West Long Branch. The Hawks also added pitcher Chris Della Rocco to the list of Major League Draft selections in the last two seasons, joining Mike St. Martine and Lance Koenig.
Ehehalt has compiled a 301-329-1 record in his 14+ years as a head coach, including a 280-291-1 mark over the past 12 seasons, making him the all-time winningest coach in Monmouth Division I history. The skipper has posted nine 20-plus win seasons in West Long Branch and has led Monmouth to at least a share of five NEC regular season titles (1996, ’98, ’99, ’01 & ’02).
Under Ehehalt’s direction 32 Monmouth players have earned All-NEC recognition, while Hawks have earned Player of the Year honors twice, Pitcher of the Year accolades twice and Rookie of the Year honors on four occasions. He has also mentored three NEC Scholar-Athletes of the Year, while watching Jay Law earn first-team All-American (Collegiate Baseball/Louisville Slugger & ABCA/Rawlings) in 2001. Second baseman Joe McCullough earned second-team All-America (ABCA/Rawlings) in 1998, while Brian Gismonde (ABCA/Rawlings) earned third-team All-America in 1999. Also during Ehehalt’s tenure, outfielder Greg Landis, who was an NEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year on two occasions, earned GTE/Verizon Academic All-American Second-Team in 2001.
In 1996, he was named NEC and New Jersey Coach of the Year. He again was named New Jersey Coach of the Year in 1999, while being honored as both NEC and New Jersey Coach of the Year in 2002.
Ehehalt arrived at Monmouth after spending the 1992 and 1993 seasons at Upsala College where he implemented the resurgence of the Division III program. After finishing 5-22 in his first season, the energetic Ehehalt guided a predominantly freshmen squad to a 16-16 mark in his second campaign.
As a senior at East Carolina, Ehehalt was named to the 1987 CAA Scholar-Athlete team. The same year, he helped lead the Pirates to a league tournament championship.
Prior to his arrival at East Carolina, Ehehalt played two years at Brookdale Community College, where he was named first team Junior College All-Region XIX in 1984.
Ehehalt, who is on the NCAA Regional Baseball Advisory Committee and is the East Regional Chair of the ABCA All-America Committee, resides in Bricktown, with his wife, Lee Ann and their daughter, Kelsi Mae.
EHEHALT WORKSHEET (1994-2004)
Year Overall Pct. NEC Pct. Finish
1994 13-23 .361 7-13 .350 6th
1995 19-33 .365 8-13 .381 8th
1996 25-22 .532 15-6 .714 t-1st
1997 23-25 .479 11-10 .524 5th
1998 30-21 .588 10-5 .667 t-1st
1999 26-24 .520 12-7 .632 1st - S
2000 25-27 .481 15-7 .682 2nd - S
2001 29-24 .547 17-5 .773 1st - S
2002 30-21 .588 23-4 .852 1st
2003 24-27 .471 15-11 .577 3rd
2004 22-29-1 .433 13-10 .565 3rd
TOTALS 266-276-1 .491 146-91 .616 -
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