Year End Awards and Senior Updates

AWARDS:
Trey Cheek Memorial Scholorship- Jacob Kriegsman

 

BLAYNE BROWN AWARD:  ELECTED BY THE SQUAD AS BEING THE BEST TEAMMATE…CHRIS SCHRUM

 

MVP: JOE BIALKOWSKI  (4 YEAR STARTER, 100 HITS IN CAREER, LED TEAM WITH 27 HITS & .391 AVERAGE.  5-2, 2.55 ERA)

 

COACHES AWARD:  MACLIN BATCHELOR (HIT .388, LED TEAM IN RBI’S, TEAM CAPTAIN) 

 

GPA AWARD:  MACLIN BATCHELOR (ALSO WON THIS AWARD IN 2012)

 

BUST YOUR BACKSIDE AWARD:  JACOB KRIEGSMAN (LED TEAM IN OFF SEASON WORKOUT POINTS, 1.88 ERA, 16 INNING SCORELESS STREAK)

 

GOLDEN SPIKES AWARD:  ROB CASE (HIT .311 PLAYING SOLID DEFENSE IN MULTIPLE POSITIONS–ALSO WON THIS AWARD IN 2012)

 

HONORABLE MENTION ALL CONFERENCE:  AUSTIN WALKER, JACOB KRIEGSMAN

 

ALL CAP-8:  JOE BIALKOWSKI, WILSON WHITE, ROB CASE, MACLIN BATCHELOR,  STEVEN THORNHILL

 

SEASON NOTES FROM COACH JONES

 

WE INCREASED RUNS SCORED BY 43%, HITS BY 30%, EXTRA BASE HITS BY 40 %.  WE DECREASED OUR ERRORS BY 44% AND CUT OUR ERA FROM 4.2 TO 2.58.  WE WENT INTO THE LAST PLAYING DATE WITH A CHANCE TO SHARE THE LEAGUE TITLE.  THAT SURPASSED MOST OF THE GOALS WE SET AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR.  WE NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PERFORM WITH CONSISTENCY, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE COMPETITION IS TOUGH.  WE FELL SHORT ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS WHERE A LITTLE BETTER EXECUTION COULD HAVE MADE A BIG DIFFERENCE.  BUT IT WAS A GREAT GROUP OF YOUNG MEN AND A BIG TURN-AROUND FOR THE PROGRAM.

 

SUMMER:

 

WE WILL FIELD 2 TEAMS IN CCSSL (THE HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER LEAGUE), PLAYING 3 GAMES A WEEK UNTIL LATE JULY.  THE OLDER SQUAD WILL INCLUDE VARSITY CANDIDATES FOR 2014; THE YOUNGER SQUAD WILL BE COMPOSED OF INCOMING 9TH GRADERS AND RETURNING JV PLAYERS.

Jahvae Giddens – University of Alabama

Wilson White – Hampden Sydney – continuing baseball career

Joe Bialkowski – Georgetown – continuing baseball career

Steven Thornhill – Louisburg

Jacob Kriegsman – UNC Wilmington

Austin Walker – NC State

Chris Schrum – UNC Chapel Hill

Maclin Batchelor – UNC Chapel Hill (Considering continuing career at Dartmouth)