Former Assistant Suffolk Baseball Coach Josh Powell Passes Away

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Courtesy of Suffolk Athletics Communications

BOSTON – Josh Powell, a former assistant coach for the Suffolk University baseball program passed away on Saturday, January 30, 2016. 

Powell served as an assistant to the baseball program at Suffolk during the 1995 through 2006 seasons. He was inducted into the Suffolk University Athletics Hall of Fame on May 4, 2013 alongside the 2000 Baseball team. Powell was a part of three of Suffolk's five NCAA Tournament teams and was a member of three Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) championships. 

During the 2000 season, Powell oversaw a pitching staff that finished first nationally among NCAA Division III programs in earned run average with a 2.69 ERA. The team that season set a school record for wins with 38, while Powell's staff combined to strikeout 401 hitters in 351 innings. 

While at Suffolk, he helped baseball rise to being one of the top programs in the New England region. Three players during his tenure were named All-American by the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA); Darwin Hernandez (1995), Max Nunez (2000) and Mike Maguire (2003). He also helped produce four players who would go onto sign professional baseball contracts, including Nunez, who signed with the Boston Red Sox following the 2000 season. 

Powell is well-known throughout the baseball circles in Greater Boston and beyond. He was the longtime director of the All-Dorchester Sports League (ADSL), an organization which serves the youth in the city of Boston through baseball and other sports. With ADSL, Powell's teams would go on to win multiple championships in the Boston Park League, which is America's oldest amateur baseball league. In 2003, he was inducted into the Park League's Hall of Fame. 

Funeral Services will be Friday, Feb. 5 at 11 a.m. at the 12th Baptist Church located at 150 Warren Street Roxbury, Mass., 02119.