Brewster, Mass. – Keystone College baseball coaches Jamie Shevchik, Ryan Smyth, and Austin Straub capped off an outstanding summer by leading the Brewster Whitecaps to championship in the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League.  The Whitecaps defeated the Bourne Braves 2-0 in a decisive game three on Sunday afternoon to give Brewster its first league title since 2000.
 
Shevchik, who completed his 16^th season as Keystone's head coach this past spring, is in his third year as head coach of the Whitecaps while Smyth and Straub are both in their second seasons in Brewster. 
 
The Whitecaps were presented with the Arnold Mycock Championship Trophy for the first time in 17 years at their home, Stony Brook Field, after winning the series 2 games to 1. Marty Costes' sacrifice fly in the third plated the only run Brewster would require thanks to a lights out performance from starter Will Tribucher (6.2 innings, 5 hits, no runs, 5 strikeouts).

Whitecaps players, coaches, and fans stormed the field after pitcher Troy Miller induced a game-ending groundout to short. This is the Whitecaps' first time winning the championship series since 2000. 
 
Arnold Mycock was a long-time CCBL volunteer who dedicated himself to the CCBL for 67 years. The Massachusetts resident, or "Mr. Cotuit Kettleer" as he was often called, began volunteering for the Kettleers when he moved to Cotuit in 1950. He wore many hats within the organization and quickly became General Manager later that year. He remained general manager for 44 years, racking up 770 wins and 12 Championship titles.

After stepping down as GM, Mycock also served in numerous roles within the Cape League, such as Vice President and Treasurer, and is credited with helping modernize the league into what it is today. The league Championship trophy was named after Mycock in 2000, which is the same year he was added as an inaugural member of the CCBL Hall of Fame. Mycock passed away in 2016 at the age of 92, but his legacy is still alive through the standards he set as a Cape League volunteer and the impact he made.

Whitecaps second baseman Nick Dunn and center fielder Hunter Bishop were named co-MVPs of the series. Bishop had a home run in the sixth inning (his third of the playoffs) on Sunday to give Brewster a 2-0 lead. Dunn went 3-for-3 in Game 2 at Bourne with 3 RBIs and a run scored, and finished the championship series with an even .500 batting average after an eighth inning single on Sunday.

Shevchik said his players showed a lot of fight en route to the championship win.

"These guys just didn't quit," Shevchik said. "When it's all said and done, when you get into the playoff run, it's about how many guys you have on your team that really want to win. I think they're over trying to showcase themselves in front of scouts at that point. You're left with a handful of guys that really want to win a championship, so if they take anything out of this summer and they take it back to school, hopefully we taught them how to win a little bit."
 
Shevchik has guided the Keystone to 13 straight overall conference titles including nine consecutive Colonial States Athletic Conference championships, and advanced to the NCAA Division III Regional Tournament in each of the past 10 springs while making two appearances in the NCAA Division III Collegiate World Series highlighted by a national runner-up finish in 2016.
 
Keystone has posted a 540-174 overall record in Shevchik's 16 seasons at the helm for an outstanding, .756 winning percentage.  Additionally, seven Giants have been selected in the MLB Draft since 2010.   
 
About the Cape Cod Baseball League
 
The premier amateur baseball league in the nation since 1885, the Cape League features a 44-game regular-season schedule and an action-packed postseason made up of best-of-three quarterfinal, semifinal and championship series.

The Cape Cod Baseball League celebrates its 132nd season in 2017 and continues to provide fans with competitive baseball entertainment in which the country's top college players display multidimensional skills in their purest form.

With more than 1,100 all-time alumni performing at all levels of professional baseball, in 2016 a record total 297 former Cape Leaguers populate major league rosters, including New York Yankees center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury (Falmouth 2004), former Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum (Harwich '05), slugging first baseman Mark Texeira (Orleans '99), AL Manager of the Year Eric Wedge (Yarmouth-Dennis '88), AL Comeback Player of the Year Carlos Pena (Harwich '96 / Wareham '97) former Cy Young Award winner Barry Zito (Wareham '97 & '98),  former AL batting champion Nomar Garciaparra (Orleans '93), former NL Fireman of the Year Billy Wagner (Brewster '92) and New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi (Cotuit '84).

The list of Cape League all time alumni in MLB totals more than 1100 names, including those of Baseball Hall of Famer Harold "Pie" Traynor (Falmouth '19), former New York Yankee greats Red Rolfe (Orleans '30) and Thurman Munson (Chatham '67) and former AL MVP Frank Thomas (Orleans '88), major league managers Bobby Valentine (Yarmouth '67) and Buck Showalter (Hyannis '76), Cy Young Award winners Steve Stone (Chatham '68) and Mike Flanagan (Falmouth '72), Firemen of the Year Wayne Granger (Sagamore '62) and Jeff Reardon (Cotuit '74-76), major league scout Lennie Merullo (Barnstable '35), slugging first baseman Jeff Bagwell (Chatham '87-'88) and Craig Biggio (Y-D '86), the only former Cape Leaguer to amass more than 3,000 hits in the major leagues.

The Cape League is recognized as the best amateur summer leagues in the country by college coaches and professional baseball scouts. Players from across the USA and representing all college divisions are recruited to play in the 10-team loop.  One in seven MLB players played in the Cape League.
 
For more information about the Cape Cod Baseball League, visit http://www.capecodbaseball.org/