Almost 20 Terps are spread up the East Coast playing in various summer ball leagues. Below we’ll give a brief overview of where members of the Maryland baseball are playing this summer and how they’re doing after the first few weeks of the summer ball season.
CAPE COD BASEBALL LEAGUE
Starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, three Terps are on the Brewster Whitecaps of the CCBL: Sean Fisher, Justin Vought and Zach Thompson. After a pedestrian sophomore campaign, Fisher has put up dominant numbers in his three relief appearances so far while throwing a 1.68 ERA in 5.1 innings, including two strikeouts.
Vought, the Terps’ most consistent catcher, put up a solo home run in his fourth game this summer, and though the junior is hitting .222 in his nine at-bats his potential is evident. After a season as Maryland’s Saturday starter, Thompson hasn’t started a game yet for Brewster, but it’s only the second week of the CCBL season.
NEW ENGLAND COLLEGIATE BASEBALL LEAGUE
Five Terps, including three Maryland pitchers, are taking New England by storm, in a sense.
On the Keene Swamp Bats, Randy Bednar and Sean Heine have put up stellar numbers in the first few weeks of the season. Bednar is batting .360 with nine hits and four stolen bases, while Heine is throwing a 3.60 ERA in 5.0 innings, including seven strikeouts.
After his first season at Maryland, Sunday starter Trevor LaBonte is the only Terp on the Stanford Mainers. His success toward the end of his freshman season carried into the summer, with the righty throwing 3.00 in two starts, amounting to 9.0 innings pitched. In those nine innings, LaBonte struck out nine batters.
Josh Maguire and Billy Phillips are both playing for the Mystic Schooners. While neither has put up amazing numbers so far this season, Maguire has three RBIs and one double in 20 at-bats, while Phillips has put up six strikeouts in 5.0 innings pitched.
PERFECT GAME COLLEGIATE LEAGUE
The Terps have three representatives in the PGCBL, spread over two teams.
On the Adirondack Trail Blazers, catcher Zach Doss has one hit but has walked four times and worked three hit-by-pitches. After an appearance in the middle of Maryland’s season, Doss struggled toward the end of the year but has the potential to bounce back with the Trail Blazers this summer.
RHP Drew Wilden and phenom Maxwell Costes are both dominating with the Amsterdam Mohawks. Wilden has made two relief appearances, holding the opposition scoreless in his 4.0 innings of work, including four strikeouts. Costes continued his freshman success, batting .448 in 29 at-bats, including a team-high three home runs.
FUTURES COLLEGIATE BASEBALL LEAGUE
For the Nashua Silver Knights, Ben Irvine, Benjamin Cowles and Daniel O’Connor are each working out some of their struggles left from the Terps’ 2019 seasons. Cowles has four doubles in seven hits, after 15 games, while O’Connor has struck out 14 in his three starts, amounting to 11.1 innings pitched. Irvine seems to be starting to find his groove, batting .240 with 11 hits in 40 at-bats, plus 11 walks, while batting leadoff and providing coverage in centerfield.
PROSPECT COLLEGIATE BASEBALL LEAGUE
Outfielders Michael Pineiro and Caleb Walls and reliever Nick Turnbull are spending the summer with the West Virginia Miners. Both Pineiro and Walls are batting over .370, while Turnbull is still working out of his late-season funk, though the reliever has six strikeouts in his 6.0 innings of relief.
CAL RIPKEN COLLEGIATE BASEBALL LEAGUE
Andrew Vail joins Elliot Zoellner as the latter returns the the Bethesda Big Train for his second season. The pair of Terps are amongst a number of Big Train pitchers with 0.00 ERAs. In his first relief appearance of the season, Zoellner threw one inning and struck out two to contribute in the Big Train’s no-hitter.
Vail got his first start of the summer on Sunday, when he threw 3.0 scoreless innings and struck out five.
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