ECU Well Represented In Summer Collegiate Leagues
June 11, 2010 | Baseball
June 11, 2010
GREENVILLE, N.C. - The East Carolina baseball team will be well represented in collegiate baseball leagues this summer as 17 current Pirates will participate in four leagues up and down the east coast.
A quartet of Pirates will play in the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL) in Massachusetts this summer. Widely regarded as the premier summer collegiate league in the country rising junior Kevin Brandt will once again play in Hyannis. The left-hander posted a 1-2 record in 11 games (six starts) while posting a 3.92 ERA and fanning 32 and walking 21 in 39.0 innings a year ago in the Cape.
Joining Brandt will be 2010 Conference USA All-Freshman Team member John Wooten (Harwich Mariners) as well as rising juniors Mike Wright (Harwich Mariners) and Zach Wright (Falmouth Commodores). A year ago, the Pirates placed seven players in the Cape with Kyle Roller (2009 regular season and postseason MVP) and Seth Maness leading the Bourne Braves to its first every CCBL title.
ECU will have good representation in the Coastal Plains League (CPL) as six Pirates, five pitchers, will play their summer ball in North Carolina. Shawn Armstrong and D.J. Jauss will pitch for the newest member of the CPL, the Morehead City Marlins. Rising sophomores Jake Harris and Joseph Hughes will team up for the Asheboro Copperheads, while Jacob Davis will play for the Wilson Tobs and Philip Clark returns to Outer Banks Daredevils, where he batted .333 (37-for-111) with four doubles, 13 RBI, 18 runs and nine stolen bases.
Five Pirates will be playing in the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL) over the next two months. Senior Mike Anderson will fine tune his skills with the Danbury Westerners, while fellow classmate and current ECU closer Seth Simmons will pitch for the Newport Gulls. A trio of rising sophomores in Bryan Bass, Chris Gosik and Tyler Joyner will suit up for the Laconia Muskrats.
Rising junior Lance Honeycutt and redshirt freshman Tanner Merritt will team up for the Lake Norman Copperheads of the Southern Collegiate Baseball League (SCBL) wood bat league.
Cape Cod League
Kevin Brandt - Hyannis Harbor Hawks
John Wooten - Harwich Mariners
Mike Wright - Harwich Mariners
Zach Wright - Falmouth Commodores
Coastal Plain League
Shawn Armstrong - Morehead City Marlins
Philip Clark - Outer Banks Daredevils
Jacob Davis - Wilson Tobs
Jake Harris - Asheboro Copperheads
Joseph Hughes - Asheboro Cooperheads
D.J. Jauss - Morehead City Marlins
New England Collegiate Baseball League
Mike Anderson - Danbury Westerners
Bryan Bass - Laconia Muskrats
Chris Gosik - Laconia Muskrats
Tyler Joyner - Laconia Muskrats
Seth Simmons - Newport Gulls
Southern Collegiate Baseball League
Lance Honeycutt - Lake Norman Copperheads
Tanner Merritt - Lake Norman Copperheads
