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Blue Devils Prepare For Summer Baseball
5/27/2009 9:15:00 AM | Baseball
DURHAM, N.C. ? The Duke baseball team will send 18 players to play in various summer leagues around the country, including six who will compete in the nationally-renowned Cape Cod Baseball League.
After sending five players to the Cape in 2008, Duke will take six players to the wooden-bat league, which is annually hailed as the top summer collegiate baseball league in the country. Juniors Alex Hassan (Orleans Firebirds) and Christopher Manno (Harwich Mariners) and sophomore Jake Lemmerman (Wareham Gatemen) return to the Cape Cod League for the second straight year, while juniors Jeremy Gould (Orleans Firebirds) and Michael Ness (Orleans Firebirds) and freshman Eric Pfisterer (Wareham Gatemen) will join CCBL rosters for the first time in their careers.
Duke also has three representatives in the Midwest-based Northwoods League, including junior Ryan McCurdy (Duluth Huskies), sophomore Dennis O'Grady (Brainerd Lunkers) and freshman Will Piwnica-Worms (Brainerd Lunkers).
The New England-based Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League will have three Blue Devils in sophomore Tom Luciano (Peekskill Robins) and freshmen Joe Pedevillano (Peekskill Robins) and David Putman (Quakertown Blazers).
In the Carolina-based Southern Collegiate Baseball League, senior Marcus Jones (Asheville Redbirds) and freshman Brian Litwin (Lake Norman Copperheads) will represent Duke.
Finally, Duke will have representation in four other leagues, including the California Collegiate League (Trevor Cesar, Santa Maria Packers), the Carolina-Virginia Summer College League (Cameron Schulz, Fuquay-Varina Twins), the Texas Collegiate League (Ben Grisz, Coppell Copperheads) and the Valley League (Ryan Knott, Waynesboro Generals).
Those Blue Devils are coming off one of the most successful seasons in recent Duke history, completing the 2009 campaign with a 35-24 overall record and a 15-15 mark in the ACC. Duke came within one game of reaching the ACC Championship, but lost to ACC Champion Virginia in a game that sent the winner to the conference final.
2009 Duke Baseball Summer League Assignments
Player Year League Team
Trevor Cesar Fr. California Collegiate League Santa Maria Packers
Jeremy Gould Jr. Cape Cod Orleans Cardinals
Ben Grisz Fr. Texas Collegiate League Coppell Copperheads
Alex Hassan Jr. Cape Cod Orleans Cardinals
Marcus Jones Sr. Southern Collegiate League Asheville Redbirds
Ryan Knott So. Valley League Waynesboro Generals
Jake Lemmerman So. Cape Cod Wareham Gatemen
Brian Litwin Fr. Southern Collegiate League Lake Norman Copperheads
Tom Luciano So. Atlantic Collegiate League Peekskill Robins
Christopher Manno Jr. Cape Cod Harwich Mariners
Ryan McCurdy Jr. Northwoods League Duluth Huskies
Michael Ness Jr. Cape Cod Orleans Cardinals
Dennis O'Grady So. Northwoods League Brainerd Lunkers
Joe Pedevillano Fr. Atlantic Collegiate League Peekskill Robins
Eric Pfisterer Fr. Cape Cod Wareham Gatemen
Will Piwnica-Worms Fr. Northwoods League Brainerd Lunkers
David Putman Fr. Atlantic Collegiate League Quakertown Blazers
Cameron Schulz So. Carolina-Virginia Summer League Fuquay-Varina Twins
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