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June 19, 2007 Weekly Round-up...
News & Notes: Orioles off to a hot start
Youse's Maryland Orioles have been the fastest out of the gate in the Cal Ripken, Sr. Collegiate Baseball League thus far in 2007. Winners of eight of their first nine games, including the past six in a row, the Orioles have relied on a near-dominant pitching staff to take a 2.5 game lead over the second-place Rockville Express. The Orioles pitching staff has allowed just 1.23 runs per nine innings (through Sunday's games). Orioles pitchers have tossed three shutouts and struck out a combined 61 batters in 65.2 innings-pitched. Opponents are hitting just .157 off of them.
 Meet the 2007 CRSCBL Official Photographers!
2007 All-Star Game tickets are FREE and available online!
The 2007 Ripken, Sr. League All-Star Game promises to be the best in our three-year history! You've seen the promos on Nationals and Orioles telecasts... MASN will be televising all the action LIVE from Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen on Monday, July 23. The second annual Home Run Derby will begin at 5 pm, and the first pitch of the All-Star Game is set for 7:05 pm. Click for your FREE printable tickets. Print as many as you like (we recommend printing in black and white). For large group tickets (still FREE!), contact Alex at 410/588-9900. We will mail you as many tickets as you'd like.
Brett Cecil (SS-T Thunderbolts 2005/Maryland) and Neil Ramirez (Youse's Orioles 2006) were both selected in the first compensation round of the 2007 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. Fourteen other past and current Ripken, Sr. League players were selected in the 2007 Draft. Click here for the complete list of drafted players.
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 Zach Umberger (Towson) and the O's are off to a hot start in 2007. Photo by Jeff Lautenberger. Copyright 2007. |
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Outfielder Andrew Foster (Bowling Green State University) of the Bethesda Big Train has been named the Cal Ripken, Sr. Collegiate Baseball League Hitter of the Week for the week of June 8 to June 17. Foster led the Big Train with 11 hits in 28 at-bats (.393), including two doubles, a home run, and nine RBI. Foster scored six runs, collected 16 total bases (most in the league), and slugged at a .571 clip. He posted an on-base percentage of .424. Foster hit in seven of eight games, including the last five in a row. In a comeback win against the Herndon Braves on Saturday, Foster hit a three-run home run and knocked in four of the six Big Train runs.
Swinson allowed just two hits in seven innings to pick up a win against the Bethesda Big Train on June 11. Four errors behind him led to a pair of unearned runs, but Swinson stayed focused, striking out seven batters and walking none. Swinson's outing was the longest by an Orioles starter during a week in which Orioles pitchers allowed just nine earned runs as a staff.
If Swinson was the leader of the Orioles' starting rotation during the first week, Hamilton was his counterpart for the bullpen. Hamilton made two appearances in long relief for the Orioles. Against the Herndon Braves on June 9, Hamilton allowed no runs on three hits and no walks over the final four innings of the game to pick up the save. In his next appearance, on Saturday against the Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts, Hamilton allowed no runs on just one hit and two walks over 4.1 innings to pick up the win in relief. Hamilton struck out 13 batters in two appearances; four against the Braves and nine against the T'Bolts. |
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