Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 5:08 p.m.
Junior righthander Eric Cantrell ended his stint in the Cape Cod Summer League with an exclamation point, pitching his Bourne Braves team to a 5-1 victory in the series-winning game of the league’s championship last week.
Cantrell surrendered just one run while striking out six and walking two in 5 and 1/3 innings of work. It was Cantrell’s lone start of the postseason after making eight regular-season appearances, seven of which came as a starter. In the regular season he went 2-2 with a 3.08 ERA, 39 strikeouts and 15 walks in 38 innings for his first-place club.
Those numbers were an improvement from his spring performance with the Colonials, when he went 5-2 with a 4.46 ERA and 60 strikeouts in 72 and 2/3 innings over 10 starts and one relief appearance. He also missed a brief amount of time due to injury.
The Cape Cod Summer League is considered one of the premiere amateur summer leagues in the country, allowing many of the nation’s top collegiate baseball players to showcase their skills for professional scouts. More than 200 of the league’s alumni were on major league rosters last season.
Thursday, June 11, 2009 4:58 p.m.
In the third and final day of Major League Baseball’s draft, GW redshirt rising senior Justin Dignelli was taken in the 34th round by the Los Angeles Dodgers.
A 6-foot-4 right-handed pitcher, Dignelli was injured for much of the spring, starting just three games and making one relief appearance. In 12 and two-thirds innings of work, he struck out seven and walked 11 while surrendering 16 runs. In 2008, when he was used primarily as a reliever, Dignelli gave up 26 earned runs while fanning 23 and walking 26 in 23 and one-third innings.
With Pat Lehman’s selection by the Washington Nationals yesterday, this year marks the first time two GW players were selected in the same draft since 2006.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 2:06 p.m.
GW pitcher Pat Lehman has been drafted by the Washington Nationals in today’s Major League Baseball amateur draft. Lehman was the first pick of the 13th round and 382nd overall.
The 6-foot-3 New Jersey native earned Atlantic 10 Pitcher of the Year honors this season after leading the conference in ERA (2.40), strikeouts (89) and innings pitched (105) while compiling a record of 7-4.
Lehman is not the first Colonial to join the Nationals fold, as former GW pitchers Mike O’Connor (2002) and Dan Pfau (2006) were also members of the D.C.-based organization, though the team was still the Montreal Expos at the time O’Connor was drafted. O’Connor reached the majors in both 2006 and 2008, starting 21 games for the Nationals.
Lehman was also drafted in the 42nd round last year by the Minnesota Twins but opted to return to GW.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 5:13 p.m.
Senior Pat Lehman was named the 2009 Atlantic 10 Pitcher of the Year Tuesday after leading the conference in three major statistical categories this past season and finishing second in two others.
The 6-foot-4 New Jersey native was tops in the A-10 in earned run average (2.40), strikeouts (89) and innings pitched (105) this past season and second in opponents’ batting average (.235) and wins (seven). All five of those marks were Lehman’s best of his GW career.
Lehman was also named to the all-conference first team, where he was joined by redshirt junior second baseman Sean Rockey, who led the Colonials in a multitude of hitting categories including batting average (.420), home runs (10), runs batted in (60), on-base percentage (.504) and slugging percentage (.679). His on-base percentage was best in the conference as well.
