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DiamondDawg Cullen Wacker will start for the East Division at Monday’s Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League All-Star Game and three Mohawk Valley pitchers will travel with him to participate in the game at Elmira’s Dunn Field.
Wacker and pitchers Selby Brummett, Tyler Kane and Willie Gabay were selected Tuesday when rosters for both teams were announced by the league. The game is scheduled for Monday at 7:05 p.m. with stars from the East squaring off against stars from the West following a home run derby which begins at 6 p.m.
A junior-to-be at Auburn University, Wacker has started all 25 games for the DiamondDawgs, mostly in left field, and leads the team with a .326 batting average, 12 runs batted in and 14 runs scored. He has stolen six bases in seven tries and had five doubles among his six extra base hits.
Gabay, who starred as a redshirt freshman at Herkimer County Community College in the spring, is 2-0 with a 4.15 ERA and one of the DiamondDawgs’ three saves. The right-hander from Mahopac has worked mostly out of the bullpen but struck out seven Cooperstown batters over five innings in his only start to help Mohawk Valley end a 10-game losing streak last week. He has been credited with the team’s last two victories.
Brummett is a back in New York after pitching with the Cooperstown Hawkeyes in the New York Collegiate Baseball League last summer. After redshirting because of an injury in 2010, he pitched at Coastal Carolina University last fall and transferred back to Arizona’s Paradise Valley Community College for a third season in the spring after pitching at Coastal Carolina University in the fall. With the DiamondDawgs, Brummett has one win and one loss through five starts and 6.20 ERA with 22 strikeouts in 24 2/3 innings.
Tyler Kane excelled as a freshman in the University of Washington bullpen and has carried that over to the PGCBL. Only one of three runs charged to him has been earned and he owns a 0.69 ERA through eight appearances, including one start. He lost his lone decision but has allowed only nine hits in 13 innings while striking out 13 batters and walking none.
While Wacker will be joined by four Albany Dutchmen in the East lineup, no Amsterdam Mohawk was named as a starter. The Mohawks, the league’s hottest team with wins in 10 of their last 12 games, moved into a first-place tie with Glens Falls by beating the Golden Eagles Monday.
DiamondDawg Cullen Wacker will start for the East Division at Monday’s Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League All-Star Game and three Mohawk Valley pitchers will travel with him to participate in the game at Elmira’s Dunn Field.
Wacker and pitchers Selby Brummett, Tyler Kane and Willie Gabay were selected Tuesday when rosters for both teams were announced by the league. The game is scheduled for Monday at 7:05 p.m. with stars from the East squaring off against stars from the West following a home run derby which begins at 6 p.m.
A junior-to-be at Auburn University, Wacker has started all 25 games for the DiamondDawgs, mostly in left field, and leads the team with a .326 batting average, 12 runs batted in and 14 runs scored. He has stolen six bases in seven tries and had five doubles among his six extra base hits.
Gabay, who starred as a redshirt freshman at Herkimer County Community College in the spring, is 2-0 with a 4.15 ERA and one of the DiamondDawgs’ three saves. The right-hander from Mahopac has worked mostly out of the bullpen but struck out seven Cooperstown batters over five innings in his only start to help Mohawk Valley end a 10-game losing streak last week. He has been credited with the team’s last two victories.
Brummett is a back in New York after pitching with the Cooperstown Hawkeyes in the New York Collegiate Baseball League last summer. After redshirting because of an injury in 2010, he pitched at Coastal Carolina University last fall and transferred back to Arizona’s Paradise Valley Community College for a third season in the spring after pitching at Coastal Carolina University in the fall. With the DiamondDawgs, Brummett has one win and one loss through five starts and 6.20 ERA with 22 strikeouts in 24 2/3 innings.
Tyler Kane excelled as a freshman in the University of Washington bullpen and has carried that over to the PGCBL. Only one of three runs charged to him has been earned and he owns a 0.69 ERA through eight appearances, including one start. He lost his lone decision but has allowed only nine hits in 13 innings while striking out 13 batters and walking none.
While Wacker will be joined by four Albany Dutchmen in the East lineup, no Amsterdam Mohawk was named as a starter. The Mohawks, the league’s hottest team with wins in 10 of their last 12 games, moved into a first-place tie with Glens Falls by beating the Golden Eagles Monday.
The other starters for the East will be Dutchmen Dain McNabb at catcher, Steve Anderson at first base, Brandon Trinkwon at second base and Andrew Deeds in the outfield, and Golden Eagles Anthony Pisani at shortstop, Josh Anderson at third base, Ricky Claudio in the outfield and David Olson at designated hitter. Infielder Zach Shank was the only position players selected from Amsterdam and will be joined on the East bench by Glens Falls catcher Daniel Klein and outfielder Kyle Ruchim and Albany infielder Anthony Turgeon.
The pitching staff for the East includes Nick Gonzalez and Derek Mazzio of Glens Falls, Mark Leiter Jr., Nick Polsinelli and Abram Williams of Amsterdam, and Steven Poche of Albany. Amsterdam’s Derrick Brewer has been selected to replace Albany’s Austin Chase.
The West Division has already replaced four of the players selected for its roster. The revised starting lineup includes Watertown’s Larry Balkwill catching and and Erick Gaylord in the outfield, Newark’s Randy Villa at first base, Kyle Attl at shortstop and Matt Vera at third base, Elmira’s Justin Lamborn at second base, David Bishop in the outfield and Justin Lacy at designated hitter, and Cooperstown’s Coleman Barron in the outfield.
Participants in the home run derby have yet to be announced.
All-stars were selected in voting by the managers of the league’s eight teams.
Compiled From Times Staff Reports
