July 27, 2006
Weekly Round-up...
News & Notes: It's Crunch Time! Playoff race heats up...
Cate (Express/Cal Poly) and Britton (Bombers/St. Bonaventure) earn weekly awards
2006 Home Run Derby video highlights are online!
Check out the CRSCBL Base-Blog!
CRSCBL is on DCSportsFan.com!
CRSCBL Photos: On sale now!
League Standings
On tap this week...
News & Notes: It's Crunch Time! Playoff race heats up...
The
Cal Ripken, Sr. Collegiate Baseball League
enters its final week of the 2006 regular season and the race for the top seeds in the League Championship Series (July 31 - August 4) has heated up! The Rockville Express began the week on a six game win streak and has won 11 of its last 13 games to take a one game lead over Youse's Maryland Orioles for the second seed in the LCS. The Bethesda Big Train has won 14 of its last 18 games and holds a one and a half game lead over the Express for first place in the league standings. When the Big Train and Express meet in Rockville on Thursday, one of two things will be decide: if the Big Train wins, they will clinch the regular season championship. If the Express wins, they will clinch a bye in the first round of the CRSCBL Championship Series. For seeding purposees, any ties in the final regular season team records will be broken by a coin-flip. Stay tuned for more e-mail announcements as the playoff picture comes into sharper focus over the next few days!
Of note: Shortstops
Allan Smaltz
(Orioles/Undecided) and
Brian Dozier
(Big Train/Southern Miss) have drawn oohs and aahs from ballpark crowds all summer with their spectacular glovework. On July 23 Dozier completed an acrobatic double-play from second baseman
Cory Lane
(Big Train/UNC Charlotte) after Lane gloved a ball tipped by the Bethesda pitcher. In the same game, Smaltz showed tremendous range into the hole to his right, jumped, and threw out a runner across the diamond in mid-air!
Complete 2006 CRSCBL Statistics
Cate (Express/Cal Poly) and Britton (Bombers/St. Bonaventure) win weekly awards
Catcher
Quentin Cate
(Cal Poly) of the Rockville Express has been named the
Cal Ripken, Sr. Collegiate Baseball League Hitter of the Week
for the week of July 18 to July 23. Cate led the Express to six wins in eight games during the week, hitting .400 (10-for-25). He knocked in a league-high seven runs and scored a league-high six runs. Cate doubled three times and homered once, on July 20 against the Bethesda Big Train. He slugged at a .640 clip and stole a base. Honorable Mentions for Hitter of the Week include: Vincent DiFazio (Orioles/Alabama), Charlie Lenhard (Thunderbolts/Akron), Rob Pietroforte (Redbirds/Johns Hopkins), and Matt Long (Big Trian/Santa Clara).
Righthander
Jim Britton
(St. Bonaventure University) of the College Park Bombers has been named the
Cal Ripken, Sr. Collegiate Baseball League Pitcher of the Week
for the week of July 18 to July 23. Britton tossed a four-hit complete game against the Maryland Redbirds in the first game of a doubleheader on July 23. He allowed just one earned run and no walks en route to the victory. Britton also struck out eight batters in that game, a league-high for the week. Honorable mentions for Pitcher of the Week include: Jason Schnitzer (Express/Cypress). Billy Gross (Express/West Virginia), Justin DeFratus (Express/Ventura), and Matt Wickswat (Big Train/Santa Clara).
2006 Home Run Derby highlights are online!
The 2006 Home Run Derby video highlights are now online at
DCSportsFan.com
! Check out
Chris Nann's
championship run now!
Check out the CRSCBL Base-Blog!
Resident Blog-Man Andy Ireland is following all the Cal Ripken, Sr. Collegiate Baseball League action this season both on and off the field in his Base-Blog. Check out the latest Base-Blog
here
.
Check out DCSportsFan.com for CRSCBL news and talk!
The Cal Ripken, Sr. Collegiate Baseball League is featured on
DCSportsFan.com
! Check out the awesome DC-area sports fan site and keep up to date with the latest CRSCBL news and info, or join a forum to make your voice heard!
CRSCBL Photos: On sale now!
Cal Ripken, Sr. Collegiate Baseball League photographers
Lisa Kammerman
and
Brenda Dunham
have been capturing all the action this season. Browse their collections at
Eye on the Ball Photography
and
Kammerman Photography
and purchase your favorites!
League Standings
Team
W/L
GB
Big Train
25-12
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Express
24-14
1.5
Orioles
22-16
3.5
Bombers
19-19
6.5
Thunderbolts
12-24
12.5
Redbirds
10-27
15
What's on tap for this week...
Complete 2006 CRSCBL Schedule
Thursday, July 27
Big Train at Expres, 5 pm
Friday, July 28
Redbirds at T'Bolts, 6 pm (DH)
Orioles at Big Train, 7:30 pm
Saturday, July 29
Redbirds at Express, 4 pm
Bombers at Orioles, 1 pm
T'Bolts at Big Train, 7:30 pm
Sunday, July 30
T'Bolts at Bombers, 7:30 pm
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Catcher Quentin Cate (Cal Poly) of the Rockville Express has been named the Cal Ripken, Sr. Collegiate Baseball League Hitter of the Week for the week of July 18 to July 23. Cate led the Express to six wins in eight games during the week, hitting .400 (10-for-25). He knocked in a league-high seven runs and scored a league-high six runs. Cate doubled three times and homered once, on July 20 against the Bethesda Big Train. He slugged at a .640 clip and stole a base. Honorable Mentions for Hitter of the Week include: Vincent DiFazio (Orioles/Alabama), Charlie Lenhard (Thunderbolts/Akron), Rob Pietroforte (Redbirds/Johns Hopkins), and Matt Long (Big Trian/Santa Clara).
Righthander Jim Britton (St. Bonaventure University) of the College Park Bombers has been named the Cal Ripken, Sr. Collegiate Baseball League Pitcher of the Week for the week of July 18 to July 23. Britton tossed a four-hit complete game against the Maryland Redbirds in the first game of a doubleheader on July 23. He allowed just one earned run and no walks en route to the victory. Britton also struck out eight batters in that game, a league-high for the week. Honorable mentions for Pitcher of the Week include: Jason Schnitzer (Express/Cypress). Billy Gross (Express/West Virginia), Justin DeFratus (Express/Ventura), and Matt Wickswat (Big Train/Santa Clara). 
