Harwich Mariners
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The Harwich Mariners are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Harwich, MA. The team is a member of the Cape Cod Baseball League
and plays in the league's Eastern Division. Harwich currently plays its home games at Whitehouse Field in the historic village of Harwich Center. Like other Cape League teams, the Mariners are funded through merchandise and concession sales, donations, and other fundraising efforts at games such as fifty-fifty raffles.
Harwich has only reached the championship series on four occasions in the past 27 years, but has won the title three of those times. In 2008, the Mariners made only their eleventh playoff appearance, just the second since their 1987 title. They won five of six to close the regular season with a record of 24-20, good for second in the Eastern Division. The Mariners swept through the postseason defeating East Champion Orleans 4-3 and 1-0 (18 inn.) and West Champion Cotuit 11-2 and 2-1.
in what would become the first of Falmouth's four consecutive titles between 1968 and 1971.
Harwich would make the playoffs three times in the 1970s, reaching the championship series in 1978 and 1979, losing both times in four games to the Hyannis Mets
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Finally, in 1983, Harwich broke through, winning their first Cape League championship in the Modern Era. The Mariners finished the regular season with only the third best record in the league, but eliminated the Hyannis Mets two games to one to earn a berth in the championship series. Harwich prevailed over the top-seeded Cotuit Kettleers
in five games, taking the series three games to two to win the crown.
Harwich wore the League crown again in 1987 after finishing the regular season with the best record in the league. The Mariners defeated the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox
two games to one to win their second league title in five years. Y-D would respond two years later, winning the first of back-to-back CCBL titles in 1989. 1987, the year of Harwich's third championship, was also the last season that the League was not broken up into divisions.
In 2008, the Mariners finished the regular season second in the Eastern Division, but swept the first-seeded Orleans Cardinals (now Orleans Firebirds) in the Eastern Division Finals. In a rematch of the 1983 League Championship Series, the Mariners escaped with a two game sweep of the Cotuit Kettleers, capped by a Mark Fleury walk-off single in game two which, in effect, ended the Mariners' 21-year title drought Harwich wore the League crown again in 2011, sweeping the Western Division's fourth-seeded Falmouth Commodores
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Cape Cod Baseball League
The Cape Cod Baseball League is a collegiate summer baseball league located on Cape Cod in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, in which many college baseball stars play during the summer. Many future Major League Baseball players have started there during their college years; MLB has provided...
and plays in the league's Eastern Division. Harwich currently plays its home games at Whitehouse Field in the historic village of Harwich Center. Like other Cape League teams, the Mariners are funded through merchandise and concession sales, donations, and other fundraising efforts at games such as fifty-fifty raffles.
Harwich has only reached the championship series on four occasions in the past 27 years, but has won the title three of those times. In 2008, the Mariners made only their eleventh playoff appearance, just the second since their 1987 title. They won five of six to close the regular season with a record of 24-20, good for second in the Eastern Division. The Mariners swept through the postseason defeating East Champion Orleans 4-3 and 1-0 (18 inn.) and West Champion Cotuit 11-2 and 2-1.
History
The Mariners have been a member of the Cape League since 1930, when the team first began play in Harwich. In the league's Modern Era, the team has qualified for the playoffs on ten different occasions. Their first appearance came in 1968, when Harwich dropped the championship series three games to one to the Falmouth CommodoresFalmouth Commodores
The Falmouth Commodores are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The team is a member of the Cape Cod Baseball League and plays in the league's Western Division. Falmouth currently plays its home games at Arnie Allen Diamond at Guv Fuller Field, one of 6 ballparks in...
in what would become the first of Falmouth's four consecutive titles between 1968 and 1971.
Harwich would make the playoffs three times in the 1970s, reaching the championship series in 1978 and 1979, losing both times in four games to the Hyannis Mets
Hyannis Mets
The Hyannis Harbor Hawks, formerly the Hyannis Mets, are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Hyannis, MA. The team is a member of the Cape Cod Baseball League and plays in the league's Western Division. Hyannis currently plays its home games at McKeon Park, which opened for play in 1979...
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Finally, in 1983, Harwich broke through, winning their first Cape League championship in the Modern Era. The Mariners finished the regular season with only the third best record in the league, but eliminated the Hyannis Mets two games to one to earn a berth in the championship series. Harwich prevailed over the top-seeded Cotuit Kettleers
Cotuit Kettleers
The Cotuit Kettleers are a collegiate summer baseball team based in the village of Cotuit, which is in the southwest corner of the town of Barnstable. The team is a member of the Cape Cod Baseball League and plays in the league's Western Division. Cotuit currently plays its home games at Lowell Park...
in five games, taking the series three games to two to win the crown.
Harwich wore the League crown again in 1987 after finishing the regular season with the best record in the league. The Mariners defeated the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox
Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox
The Yarmouth–Dennis Red Sox, or Y-D Red Sox, is a collegiate summer baseball team based in South Yarmouth, MA. The team is a member of the Cape Cod Baseball League and plays in the league's Eastern Division...
two games to one to win their second league title in five years. Y-D would respond two years later, winning the first of back-to-back CCBL titles in 1989. 1987, the year of Harwich's third championship, was also the last season that the League was not broken up into divisions.
In 2008, the Mariners finished the regular season second in the Eastern Division, but swept the first-seeded Orleans Cardinals (now Orleans Firebirds) in the Eastern Division Finals. In a rematch of the 1983 League Championship Series, the Mariners escaped with a two game sweep of the Cotuit Kettleers, capped by a Mark Fleury walk-off single in game two which, in effect, ended the Mariners' 21-year title drought Harwich wore the League crown again in 2011, sweeping the Western Division's fourth-seeded Falmouth Commodores
Falmouth Commodores
The Falmouth Commodores are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The team is a member of the Cape Cod Baseball League and plays in the league's Western Division. Falmouth currently plays its home games at Arnie Allen Diamond at Guv Fuller Field, one of 6 ballparks in...
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