June 25, 2008
Alaska Baseball League
Ryan Jenkins dropped his average to .267 during the week but his Bucs team is currently 10-3 overall and 5-1 in league games, holding the top spot in the league by 1.5 games.
Cape Cod League
Joseph Sanders raised his batting average over 100 points in the last week and currently resides at .367 after seven games for the Harwich Mariners, leading the team in runs scored (six), hits (11) doubles (four) and slugging percentage (.600) ... Mike Bianucci checks in with a .304 batting average and a league-best .739 slugging percentage, mashing three of the Cotuit Kettleers' five homers on the season (which ties him for the league lead) and driving in a league-high 12 runs while also scoring a league-best 12 times ... Bianucci's CCL teammate Kevin Patterson is hitting a robust .407 (fourth-highest in the summer league) with a double, a triple and 10 RBI ... Bianucci's and Patterson's 22 combined RBI are the most by a pair of Cape Cod League teammates ... Cotuit is 5-2 and second in the Western Division while Harwich leads the Eastern Division with a 4-3 mark ... Brian Fletcher is set to join the Falmouth Commodores in the coming days after his run with in the USA Baseball National Team Trials ended on Tuesday.
Cal Ripken, Sr. Collegiate Baseball League
Ben Jones and the Bethesda Big Train picked up three wins over the last week and are now 10-3 on the year, a half-game out of first place in the league ... League stats are only updated through June 20, but as of that date, Jones was hitting .211 in 19 at bats, driving in a run.
Coastal Plain League
Chezz McCann is on a seven-game hitting streak after collecting a hit in all five games he played in over the last week to raise his batting average to .325, third-best for the Peninsula Pilots ... Last week he was a combined 8-for-19 (.421), scoring a run in all five games and driving in a total of four RBI ... His 16 runs scored currently pace Pilots ... Peninsula went 6-1 over the last week and has evened its record at 12-12, third in the North Division.
Florida Collegiate League
A Tuesday email from the FCSL alerted us to the fact that Tony Caldwell was named the Winter Park Diamond Dawgs Player of the Week ... Caldwell is hitting .278 in 36 at bats, driving in a team-best 10 RBI ... Since last week's update, Caldwell went 7-for- 15 (.467), scoring three runs and driving in seven, collecting two doubles and a triple along the way ... Caldwell has caught four games, started in right once and been the DH six times, hitting cleanup seven times this year so far ... Winter Park is 7-6 and in third place in the league.
Clark Griffin League
After some bad weather caused havoc on the CGL, we are happy to report that stats are up and available on the league website (though a little behind) and a quick looks shows us that Chris O'Neil has put together a 4.50 ERA in 6.0 innings while Rus Harper has is 0-1 in two starts, both playing for the Fairfax Nationals ... However, Harper had a fine outing in the first game of a double-header on Monday which is not included in the stats, picking up a win ... Fairfax is 9-5, second in the league.
New England Collegiate League
The word out of Roswell, Ga., is that David Cunningham will join the Newport Gulls of the New England Collegiate League over the next week ... Newport is leading the Southern Division at 6-4.
Valley League
Jon Luke Jacobs continue to sizzle for the Fauquier Gators, lowering his ERA by almost a half-run to an astounding 1.29 with a 2-1 record in seven relief outings ... Jacobs picked up the win in last Friday's 5-2 victory over Waynesboro, throwing three shutout innings and fanning seven ... He followed that up by ringing up the only two hitters he faced in Sunday's game to bring his strikeout total to a whopping 23 on the year, the most on the Fauquier staff, while issuing just four base on balls ... Bradley Ray and the Front Royal Cardinals are on a five-game losing streak but Ray was able to raise his batting average ever so slightly to .262 with a 4-for-13 (.307) week, belting his first home run of the summer in a 5-3 loss on Saturday ... Fauquier is 10-6 and second in the North Division ... Front Royal is 8-12, fourth in the North.
Sunbelt League
Thanks to some assistance, we learned that Ty Kelley threw twice over the weekend for Norcross, earning a save on Friday by registering the final out after entering with the tying run on first ... He then started the second game on a doubleheader on Saturday, throwing four innings and striking out six without issuing a walk or an earned run.
USA Baseball
As reported on Tuesday, Hunter Morris was named to the 22-man USA Baseball National Team roster. The National Team will play its series against Chinese Taipei beginning tonight and will play games in Greenville, S.C., Kannapolis, N.C., Durham, N.C. and Cary, N.C., over the next week.
A Check On A Former Tiger...
Justin Christian, who lettered at Auburn in 2001, made his Major League Debut for the New York Yankees last night in Pittsburgh, getting the start in left field and batting eighth in the order ... Christian singled to left in his second at-bat for his first big league hit and finished the night 2-for-4 with 2 RBIs ... For the story by MLB.com on Christian getting the call, click here.
