Monroeville’s CCAC Boyce baseball team started the 2024 season 3-11. Austin Long, who returned to the program last fall after having previously coached Boyce in 2018 and 2018, said he saw the team come together more in the second half of the schedule, and they went 9-10 over their final 19 games. “It definitely wasn’t the way we wanted it to be starting out, but with me getting back here in August, I didn’t have a lot of time to recruit,” Long said.
“We had 17 guys and six arms. Of those six guys, they did really well. With six games in a week and just the six arms, it was kind of difficult to try and string some wins together.
“With our lack of depth pitching and position-wise, I give the guys a lot of credit for sticking with it. We picked up some nice wins that showed that the guys were getting better and playing as a team. They could’ve rolled over and died, but they stuck together, figured some things out and played some good baseball in the second half.
” CCAC, with local and regional products in sophomores Justin Brannagan (Deer Lakes), Logan Mazur (Serra Catholic), Jordan Sullivan (Penn Hills) and Luis Marquez (Allderdice), finished 12-21 and ended its season with a pair of losses (8-2 and 2-0) against Camp Community College in a district championship tournament series May 13 at Boyce. “We gave Camp all they could handle,” Long said. A week before, CCAC faced Prince George’s Community College in a regional series with a trip to districts on the .