The 2021 season was a special summer in a special place for the Vermont Lake Monsters.
After decades of affiliated ball in Burlington, the ballclub in the Green Mountain State’s largest city made an emphatic statement during its first Futures Collegiate Baseball League (FCBL) season, topping the regular-season standings with a record 42 victories before edging past Pittsfield in a competitive three-game set to capture the championship.
Players from all three NCAA divisions, from all across the country and right down the road, came together in late May to start something new and finished the summer by making their own history at historic Centennial Field, guided by former Georgetown head coach Pete Wilk (Barrington, R.I.).
“We spent so much time together at the field and traveling, so we had no choice to become close as a team,” said Assumption righty Patrick Harrington (Bedford, N.H.), the FCBL’s Pitcher of the Year who went 5-2 with a league-leading 2.32 ERA during the regular season before earning the victory in both playoff series-clinching games.
