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Thu, 15 May 2008 13:54:00 MST
CHIPOLA TO DEFEND NATIONAL BASEBALL TITLE
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CHIPOLA TO DEFEND NATIONAL BASEBALL TITLE
The Chipola Indians successfully defended their Florida state baseball title with a 6-0 win over Manatee CC in the championship on May 13 in Winter Haven. The Indians now turn their attention to the national tournament which they won in May of 2007.
Chipola (44-12-1) will begin defense of their national title, Saturday, May 24, at 2 p.m. in Grand Junction, Colorado. The Indians will face the winner of the South Central District, which is being played May 17-18 at Connors State (Okla.). Crowder (Mo.) and Delgado (La.) join Connors in that tournament.
The Indians will not face New Mexico JC, their opponent in last year's national championship game. A bench-clearing brawl in their junior college tournament May 13 ended with umpires declaring a double forfeit that ended the season for New Mexico and Weatherford College.
Chipola's back-to-back state championships were the first since Central Florida CC won consecutive titles in 1997 and 1998.
Chipola called on ace Ryan Chaffee who pitched a complete game to earn the 6-0 win over Manatee in the title game. He chalked up 18 strikeouts in nine innings. Chafee was 2-0 in the tournament with 28 strikeouts in 14 innings.
The Indians held a slim 1-0 lead heading into the ninth when Chipola's Carlos Moncrief swatted a three-run homer to put the Indians up 4-0. He had eight RBI's and 11 hits in the tournament. Moises Montero followed with a two-run homer in the same inning to push the Indians to the 6-0 final.
Chipola chalked up six runs on two hits and committed three errors. Manatee had four hits, no runs and no errors.
The Indians won five straight games in the tournament including a 10-2 win over Pensacola in seven innings on May 12. Montero was three for three on the day with a homerun. Edmond Sparks also homered in the game. Jason Townsend pitched all seven innings to earn the win for Chipola. Pensacola won the conference championship this season, but Chipola's win put the Indians up 3-2 in this year's series.
The Indians scored a 13-9 win over Manatee on May 11. Pitcher Matt Jackson earned the win. Einar Atencio and Edmond Sparks both went three for four. Moncrief and Daniel Jones both went three for five.
Chipola scored an 8-7 win over St. Petersburg on May 10. Marc Bourgeoius was three for three. Adam Duvall was two for five. Chaffee was the winning pitcher.
The Indians scored an 11-3 win over Seminole in the first round of the tournament on May 8.
Coach Jeff Johnson had help from assistant coaches Nick Fletcher, Jared Harrell and Brent Shelton.
In 12 seasons at the helm, Coach Johnson's Indians have made it to the state tournament nine times with five appearances in the title game. Chipola won the 2008 state tourney and captured the school's first-ever national tourney last season. The Indians finished second in the state tournament in 2005, 2002 and 2001, third in 1998, and among the top four in 2006.
Chipola team members, are: Daniel Jones of Ormond Beach.; Colton McCutcheon of St. Augustine; Brett Maxwell of Douglasville, Ga.; Adam Duvall of Louisville, Ky.; Marc Bourgeois of Montreal, Canada; Cameron Gray of Toronto, Canada; Kyle Regnault of Johnston, RI; Einar Atencio of Panama; Daniel Renfroe of Macon, Ga.; Jason Bailey of Colquitt, Ga.; Chris Berroa of Pennsauken, N.J.; Jordan Lucas of Venice, Fla.; Drew Parker of Surrey, BC; Matt Jackson of Haughton, La.; Ben Jeffers of Danielsville, Ga.; J.B. Johnson of Marianna; Tyler Bumgarner of Marietta, Ga.; Edmond Sparks of Hampton, Ga.; Ryan Chaffee of Niceville; David Buchanan of Fayetteville, Ga.; Carlos Moncrief of Jackson, Miss.; Moises Montero of the Dominican Republic; David Travis of Bristol; Jason Townsend of Albany, Ga.; Skylar Smith of Bainbridge, Ga.
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Tue, 13 May 2008 12:06:00 MST
SEWARD COUNTY ELIMINATED BY KCK IN REGION VI TOURNAMENT
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WICHITA, Kansas (May 12, 2008) - The Seward County Community College baseball team was eliminated from the Region VI Tournament losing 9-7 to Kansas City Kansas Community College on Monday evening at Lawrence Dumont Stadium in Wichita. The Saints scored six runs in the second inning, but were held to one run the rest of the game as KCK left-handed pitcher Tyler Link pitched the final 7 2/3 innings in relief for the victory. The No. 10 nationally-ranked Saints finish their season with a 42-19 overall record while KCK (34-18) advances to play Cowley College in the loser's bracket final at 4 p.m. on Tuesday. Johnson County Community College will await the winner of the loser's bracket final in the championship game tomorrow evening at 7 p.m.
The Blue Devils jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the second inning as catcher Wade Schwerdtfeger hit a double off the left-field wall, and Jared Herbert and Jarid Renzelman tacked on RBI singles against Seward starting pitcher Tyler Binkley . Two batters later, center fielder Zach Theademan ripped a two RBI double to give KCK the early lead.
Seward County answered immediately in the bottom of the second inning with six runs on six straight base hits. Catcher David Masters started the inning with a double into the right-center gap and scored on a RBI double from freshman Caleb Nine.
Erik Hansen reached base on a single, and freshman Mikel Huston hit a two-RBI single to left field. Freshman second baseman Trent Martinez followed with a single to left field, and freshman Keegan Morrow plated two runs with his sixth triple of the season - hit into the left-center field gap to give the Saints a 6-4 lead.
KCK added an unearned run in the third inning as third baseman Travis Parker led off the inning with a single up the middle and later scored on an error by SCCC second baseman Trent Martinez.
The Saints took a 7-5 lead on Hansen's RBI double to left field, which scored David Cruz who led off the inning with a double down the right-field line.
Seward County, who entered the game with only three extra-base hits in its first three games in Wichita, recorded five extra-base hits in the opening three innings against KCK.
Saints' head coach Galen McSpadden went to the bullpen in the top of the fourth inning after Travis Parker hit a two-run home run off Binkley to tie the score, 7-7. Binkley allowed eight hits, seven runs (six earned) and hit two batters with three strikeouts.
Later in the fourth frame, KCK took the lead, 8-7, on a RBI single from Herbert off Saints' reliever Corey Collins , scoring Schwerdtfeger for the Blue Devils' 10 th base hit of the game. Collins was the losing pitcher allowing seven hits, two runs (one earned) and one walk with three strikeouts.
The Saints attempted to tie the score in the bottom of the fourth inning with two outs when Will Gowdy hit a bloop single to shallow right field, but Austin Roff was thrown out at home plate to end the inning. Masters was also called out at home plate when trying to score in the third inning.
After four innings of action every Saints' player had at least one base hit, with a balanced offensive attack producing 11 base hits in 21 plate appearances. The final five innings the Saints weren't as fortunate collecting five hits with no base advancing to third base.
Link, who entered in the second inning, shutdown the Saints' offense scattering 10 hits and allowing one run with four strikeouts. Blue Devil starting pitcher Luke Perry lasted just 1 1/3 innings after allowing six runs on six base hits while facing only 10 batters.
Freshman outfielder Mikel Huston led the Saints going 3-for-4 with two RBIs. Other Saints with multi-hit games included Cruz (2-for-5), Masters (2-for-5), Hansen (2-for-4) and Martinez (2-for-4).
Herbert led KCK at the plate going 2-for-4 with three RBI. Parker picked up two RBIs going 2-for-4.
TOURNAMENT NOTES:
- It is the third straight appearance for the Saints at the Region VI Tournament in Wichita where they finished in the final four after winning their first game, losing their second game, winning their third game and then losing their fourth game.
- The Saints' 42 victories mark the sixth most wins ever in a single-season at Seward County.
- It is the first time since the Region VI Tournament format changed in 2004 that three schools from the same division (Jayhawk East or West) have made up the final three teams left in tournament competition (Johnson County, Cowley and KCK remain contenders for a tournament title).
For more information on Saints Baseball check out their official website @ http://athletics.sccc.edu/bbnews.html
NJCAA Region VI Tournament Bracket: http://www.kjccc.org/baseball/08/08Region_VI_Baseball_Bracket.html
REGION VI TOURNAMENT RESULTS & MATCH-UPS:
Saturday, May 10:
Johnson County defeated Barton County, 7-4
No. 10 Seward County defeated Kansas City, 10-3
Hutchinson defeated Fort Scott, 9-5
Cowley defeated Allen County, 16-6 (6)
Sunday, May 11:
Kansas City defeated Barton County, 8-4
Fort Scott defeated Allen County, 6-5
Johnson County defeated No. 10 Seward County, 6-3
Cowley vs. Hutchinson @ 7 p.m. (winner's bracket)
Monday, May 12:
No. 10 Seward County defeated Fort Scott, 4-3
Kansas City defeated Hutchinson, 7-6
Johnson County defeated Cowley, 7-6
Kansas City defeated No. 10 Seward County, 9-7
Tuesday, May 13:
Kansas City vs. Cowley @ 4 p.m. (loser's bracket final)
Johnson County vs. KCK/Cowley winner @ 7 p.m. (Championship Game)
Wednesday, May 14:
"If Necessary Game" @ 7 p.m. (Championship)
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Fri, 09 May 2008 09:32:00 MST
Former MCC pitcher shuts down Yankees
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Former Meridian Community College pitcher, Cliff Lee of the Cleveland Indians, threw seven sharp innings to beat the New York Yankees and their pitcher, Chien-Ming Wang, in a matchup of unbeaten starters. Lee became the first Indians pitcher to win his first six starts since Greg Swindell in 1988 and lowered his MLB-best ERA to 0.81.
Lee, who played for MCC in 1998-99, threw seven innings giving up just five hits, with seven strikeouts, and no earned runs in Yankees Stadium.
Lee is now unbeaten on the season with a 6-0 record in six starts. With now over 40 innings pitched, Lee has walked only two batters all season.
After his career was over with at MCC, Lee played SEC baseball for the Arkansas Razorbacks.
Lee was inducted into the MACJC Sports Hall of Fame, along with fellow MCC-ers Lou Hart and Ronald Murray last year.
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Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:51:00 MST
Arizona Western 2nd baseman earns spot on both All-Region I and All-ACCAC teams
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Yuma, Arizona - April 28, 2008 -- Arizona Western College is proud to announce that AWC baseball player Giovanni Garcia has been named to both postseason squads-receiving 1 st Team All-ACCAC and 2nd Team All-Region I honors. The announcement was made following the postseason coaches' meetings in Mesa this weekend.
For Garcia, it is the completion of a happy homecoming. Garcia was born and raised in the Desert Southwest, but after enjoying a storied high school career at Kofa High School in Yuma , Giovanni chose to head to the Phoenix area to play for South Mountain Community College for the 2006 season. Garcia realized after one season that he missed Yuma , and came home. After sitting out a year, Garcia returned to the college ranks, and wasted no time in showing how big his comfort zone was wearing the cardinal and gold of the Matador Baseball team. Garcia was the team's leading hitter from start to finish this past season, ending with a .369 batting average. Garcia led the Matadors in most offensive categories, including hits (65), runs scored (41), doubles (16), triples (3) slugging percentage (.494), on-base percentage (.451) and stolen bases (18). `Gio' saved one of his best performances of the season for his final doubleheader as a Matador, scoring the Matadors' lone run in their 1-0 win Saturday in Game 1 against Eastern Arizona, and then going 4-for-5 with a double in Game 2, scoring 3 times, stealing his final base of the season, and knocking in 4 RBI in the Mats' 17-4 thrashing of the Gila Monsters.
Garcia is still weighing offers from four-year universities to determine the next step in his college career. "Gio's accolades were well-deserved," remarked AWC Head Baseball Coach John Stratton. "The conference coaches were very impressed with Gio all year. What makes it more impressive is that he came here after being inactive for an entire season, finished his community college career and didn't miss a beat from the first time he stepped on our field this year."
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Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:25:00 MST
NJCAA Hall of Fame Coach Galen McSpadden Gets 900th Win
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SAINTS SWEEP DODGE CITY
DODGE CITY, Kansas (April 6, 2008) - Galen McSpadden won his 900th career game, and Seward County Community College swept a Jayhawk West Conference series on the road against Dodge City Community College this past weekend at Cavalier Field in Dodge City. The Saints have now won 15 straight games, following four wins against Dodge City (7-5, 16-2, 5-4, 2-0). McSpadden, the 27-year veteran coach of the Saints, won his 900th career victory at SCCC in game two on Sunday, and has now led Seward County to a 26-12 overall record this season. The Saints currently lead the Jayhawk Western Division with a 17-3 overall mark. Dodge City falls to 15-25 overall and to 6-14 in the Jayhawk West.
After sweeping their third straight conference series, the Saints now lead Hutchinson Community College (22-10, 15-5) by two games for the lead in the Jayhawk West Conference. Hutchinson was idle this past weekend and will play on the road at Pratt Community College this weekend.
In game one, the Saints used seven extra-base hits, including two home runs that help sophomore pitcher Tomas Cruz earn his seventh victory of the season. Sophomore catcher David Masters hit a two-run homer in the fifth inning, and sophomore Will Gowdy scored the final run for the Saints with a solo home run in the seventh inning.
Cruz struck out 10 batters, giving the Amarillo, Texas native 32 strikeouts in his last four outings. He is now 7-2 on the season with a 2.15 earned run average with a team-high 50.1 innings pitched.
Seward County completed the doubleheader sweep on Saturday with four big offensive innings in game two. The Saints scored two runs in the third, three in the fourth, five in the fifth and six runs in the seventh inning. Gowdy (2-for-5) led the team with four RBI while sophomore Michael Drzazga hit the games only home run with a three-run blast in the Saints' five-run fifth inning.
Sophomore left-handed pitcher Christian Kowalchuk picked up his fifth win of the season throwing six innings, scattering five hits, two runs and four walks with five strikeouts. The Saints also welcomed back center fielder Keegan Morrow to the starting line-up. Morrow has missed the previous eight games with an injury before going 2-for-4 with a triple, three runs scored and a RBI in game two.
Seward County won game three with a double to right field by freshman Caleb Nine in the top of the seventh inning, scoring sophomore Erik Hansen who reached base on a walk. Masters was the only Seward County player with multi-hits going 2-for-3 with a RBI. Masters also improved his hitting streak to 13 games with his two singles in game three of the series. Masters' hitting streak ended in game four of the series.
Sophomore Tyler Binkley started game three on the mound for the Saints where he pitched 5.1 innings, allowed five hits, four runs (three earned), two walks and posted four strikeouts. Sophomore reliever Jordan McClintick was the winning pitcher for the Saints pitching 1.2 innings. McClintick improves to 7-1 this season with a 2.08 ERA in 26 innings pitched.
Freshman left-hander Austin Terhune pitched his first collegiate complete-game shutout in game four. Terhune allowed three hits and three walks with six strikeouts in his second victory this season. The Perryton, Texas native finished the game recording all three outs in the seventh via strikeout.
Freshman outfielder Mikel Huston remained clutch for Seward County at the plate going 2-for-3 and recording the only two RBI of the game. Huston singled home Gowdy in the fourth inning to give the Saints a 1-0 lead, and he followed with another RBI single to center field in the sixth inning to score Nine for the final run of the game.
The game-four victory marked career victory No. 900 for Saints' head coach Galen McSpadden. During the last 15 seasons, McSpadden has
led the Saints to 10 Jayhawk West titles and to four conference runner-up finishes. McSpadden becomes the 25th head coach all-time in NJCAA history to win 900 games, and he is the 11th active head coach to reach the historic milestone.
Seward County will play its first mid-week doubleheader in three weeks on Wednesday, April 9, hosting Luna Community College (12-23) for a 12:30 p.m. non-conference doubleheader at Brent Gould Field in Liberal. This upcoming weekend the Saints will be back in Jayhawk West action hosting sixth-place Garden City Community College (16-18, 9-11) for a pair of doubleheaders on April 12-13.
McSPADDEN'S MILESTONE VICTORIES:
Career Win #100: March 20, 1986 (vs. Pratt C.C. - 21-5)
Career Win #200: April 12, 1990 (vs. Colby C.C. - 10-6)
Career Win #300: April 11, 1993 (vs. Butler County C.C. - 4-2)
Career Win #400: April 8, 1996 (vs. Frank Phillips College - 5-4)
Career Win #500: May 2, 1998 (vs. Cloud County C.C. - 10-5)
Career Win #600: March 23, 2001 (vs. College of Southern Nevada - 5-2)
Career Win #700: March 30, 2003 (vs. Lamar C.C. - 6-5)
Career Win #800: April 27, 2005 (vs. Garden City - 4-3)
Career Win #900: April 6, 2008 (vs. Dodge City - 2-0)
For more information on Saints Baseball check out their official website @ http://athletics.sccc.edu/bbnews.html
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Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:39:00 MST
NJCAA Baseball All-Star Team to Face Taiwan National Team in June
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 31, 2008) - The NJCAA and its Baseball Coaches Association are proud to announce that a 2008 NJCAA Baseball All-Star Team will play for national pride this summer, representing the United States in a three-game series versus Taiwan. The international sporting event will take place June 20-22, 2008, at USA Stadium in Millington, Tenn.
%20for%20web.jpg) The NJCAA All-Stars will be led by Seward County Community College (Kan.) head coach, and 2008 NJCAA Baseball Hall of Fame Inductee, Galen McSpadden (left). He will be assisted by Jeff Willis, head coach at Louisiana State University - Eunice, and Marc Rardin, head coach at Iowa Western Community College.
"This is an opportunity to be involved in baseball at a level that I have never been involved," explained McSpadden on taking the job, "to play against a national team that is going to represent Taiwan in the Olympics is exciting. It is going to be a lot of fun to work with a couple of very good coaches and players from the NJCAA."
Last year, McSpadden along with and Glendale Community College (Ariz.) head coach Dave Grant (NJCAA Baseball Coaches Association President) and others helped organize and coach the NJCAA Freshman All-Star Series. The event, which was also held at USA Stadium, featured two talented rosters full of NJCAA freshman competing over three days in front of many professional and four-year college scouts.
"Having had the experience last summer being an assistant in Millington (NJCAA Freshman All-Star Series) will help with this event," McSpadden said.
"The way that this will be administered by Dave Grant, Harry Tholen (NJCAA Baseball Coaches Association), Richard Hitt (South Florida Community College head coach) and those at USA Stadium will be first-class, and a lot of fun."
The yet to be determined roster for the NJCAA All-Star team will consist of freshman and sophomores currently playing on NJCAA baseball teams for the 2008 season. Players will be nominated by their (NJCAA) head coach, with all nominations and roster positions to be analyzed and selected by Coach McSpadden and his staff.
Compiling a final roster will be a challenge as many NJCAA baseball players are expected to be selected in this year's Major League Baseball Amateur Draft (June 5-6), thus making their participation in the series doubtful. However, McSpadden and his staff are confident that they can put together a very competitive roster.
"Having already talked with Jeff (Willis), Marc (Rardin) and Dave Grant, we are going to have some challenges in the selection process. We have to have the best talent that we can select. Fortunately, we are going to be able to take freshmen and sophomores, but I explained to them we will need a pre-(MLB) draft roster and a post-(MLB) draft roster. We will do our best to put together the top players that will best represent the NJCAA."
Those players selected for the NJCAA All-Star team will go up against some of the best players from the Far East. The roster for the Taiwan National Team, also known as Chinese Taipei, will feature many of the players that will be making up their roster for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
Taiwan's visit to the United States will also include a series versus the USA National Team, which will take place the week following their series with the NJCAA All-Stars.
NJCAA Baseball All-Star teams have historically faired very well against international competition, especially at USA Stadium. The last time an NJCAA squad faced an opponent from a foreign country was in 2002 when they won three out of five in a series against the Chinese National Team.
In the summer of 1999, an NJCAA All-Star Team triumphed over Canada's National Team, winning four of the five scheduled games. Both events took place at USA Stadium in Millington.
Links: USA Stadium; Millington, Tenn.
To reach Coach McSpadden for comment please contact:
SCOTT LACEFIELD
Sports Information Director, Seward County Community College
scott.lacefield@sccc.edu
Office: (620) 417-1553
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