Galloway, NJ – Richard Stockton College has hired Scott
Baker as its new baseball coach. Baker, a native of nearby Linwood,
New Jersey returns to the Garden State after a lengthy career at
two schools in the South. He spent the last 14 seasons as the head
coach at Sewanee: The University of the South in Tennessee. Prior
to his arrival at Sewanee, Baker served on the coaching staff at
Georgia Southern University for 15 years.
Baker holds the school record for victories at Sewanee with 166
in his 14-year tenure. He became the winningest coach in school
history with a 16-4 triumph over Hamilton College on March 20, 2009
and continued adding to his total for the last five-plus years.
Baker's players at Sewanee earned 36 all-conference honors and five
all-region selections.
Before assuming the head role at Sewanee, Baker was an assistant
coach at Georgia Southern for 10 years (1984-94) and associate head
coach for five years (1994-99). During that 15-year span, he helped
the Eagles to 521 wins, seven conference championships and one
appearance in the College World Series. Baker's background also
includes one season as an assistant at Salisbury University and two
years as head freshman and varsity assistant coach at his alma
mater, Mainland Regional High School.
Baker replaces Marty Kavanagh, who retired after winning 220 games
in 12 years on the Stockton bench. Kavanagh inherited a program
that had just one winning season in its first nine years and led
the Ospreys to seven 20-win seasons including a school-record 23
victories apiece in 2008 and 2013. Under Kavanagh's direction,
Stockton won three ECAC Metro championships (2007, 2010, 2011) and
earned the program's only four NJAC playoff berths in school
history.