Valley Baseball League Archive

2011 Baseball America Top Prospects for Summer Leagues and Team USA

– September 10, 2011Posted in: 2012 Top Players, Alaskan Summer League, Atlantic Collegiate, Baseball America, Cal Ripken Sr. Collegiate League, California Collegiate, Cape Cod Baseball League, Coastal Plain League, Florida Collegiate League, Futures League, Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League, Hawaii Collegiate League, Jayhawk, MINK League, NECBL, Northwoods League, NYCBL, Prospect League, Team USA, Texas Collegiate League, Valley League, West Coast League

FROM BASEBALL AMERICA PRESS RELEASE
DURHAM, N.C.–The Southeastern Conference, which has produced college baseball’s last three national champions, dominated Baseball America’s top prospects lists for 20 college summer leagues and Team USA, which have been released at BaseballAmerica.com. The SEC leads all conferences with 24 players on the lists, followed by the Pacific-12 (22 players), the Big 12 (18 players) and the Atlantic Coast (17). The ACC leads all conferences with four players ranking as the No. 1 prospects in their respective leagues. Read the rest of this entry »

Top 100 Countdown: 47. Tommy LaStella (Coastal Carolina)

Mark Rafferty

– December 4, 2010Posted in: 2011 CBD Top 100 Players, 2011 Top Players, Big South, Cape Cod Baseball League, Valley League

College Baseball Daily continues our countdown to the start of the 2011 College Baseball season by checking in on the Top 100 Players in the country. We will be providing one player per day until we reach number 1.

We continue the countdown today at number 47 with redshirt junior 2B Tommy La Stella from Coastal Carolina. La Stella is from Closter, N.J. attended St. Joes Montvale High School. He was an All-State selection during his senior season, hitting .525 with 6 homeruns and 38 RBI. He hit .542 with 5 home runs during his junior season. Read the rest of this entry »

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Top 100 Countdown: 77. Daniel Bowman (Coastal Carolina)

Brian Foley

– October 30, 2010Posted in: 2011 CBD Top 100 Players, 2011 Top Players, Big South, Cape Cod Baseball League, Valley League

The CBB continues our countdown to the start of the 2011 College Baseball season by checking in on the Top 100 Players in the country. We will be providing one player per day until we reach number 1.

We continue the countdown today at number 77 with Coastal Carolina’s Daniel Bowman. He is a 6’1 220 pound outfielder from Bridgewater Virginia and attended Turner Ashby High School as he was a four year letterwinner. In his senior campaign, he hit .510 with 11 home runs and 36 RBI as he was named First Team All-State as well as the District, Area and Region Player of the Year. He hit .491 with eight home runs and 35 runs-batted-in his junior season as he helped the Knights to a second-straight state championship in 2007.He also was named to All-State, All-Region and All-District First teams.

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Tags: 2011 Top Players, Big South, Cape Cod Baseball League, CBD 2011 Top 100 Players, Coastal Carolina, Daniel Bowman, Valley Baseball League

Top 100 Countdown: Number 95 Sherman Johnson (Florida State)

Brian Foley

– October 9, 2010Posted in: 2011 CBD Top 100 Players, 2011 Top Players, ACC, Valley League

The CBB continues our countdown to the start of the 2011 College Baseball season by checking in on the Top 100 Players in the country. We will be providing one player per day until we reach number 1.

We continue the countdown today at number 95 with Florida State junior infielder Sherman Johnson. He is from Alonso High School and from Tampa Florida. He had an outstanding career in high school which saw him play all four years including being named All-County as a junior and senior.

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Tags: 2011 Top Players, ACC, CBD 2011 Top 100 Players, Florida State, Sherman Johnson, Valley Baseball League

2010 Baseball America Top Prospects for Summer Leagues and Team USA

Brian Foley

– September 15, 2010Posted in: 2011 Top Players, Alaskan Summer League, Atlantic Collegiate, Baseball America, Cal Ripken Sr. Collegiate League, California Collegiate, Cape Cod Baseball League, Coastal Plain League, Florida Collegiate League, Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League, Hawaii Collegiate League, Jayhawk, MINK League, NECBL, Northwoods League, NYCBL, Prospect League, Team USA, Texas Collegiate League, Valley League, West Coast League

FROM BASEBALL AMERICA RELEASE

DURHAM, N.C.–The Pacific-10 Conference dominated Baseball America’s top prospects lists for 18 summer college leagues and Team USA, which have been posted at BaseballAmerica.com. The Pac-10 leads all conferences with 30 players on the lists and six players ranking as the No. 1 prospects in their respective leagues.

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CBB Top 100 Countdown: Number 81 Ali Simpson (Bethune-Cookman)

Brian Foley

– October 30, 2009Posted in: 2010 Top Players, CBD Column, MEAC, Valley League

The CBB continues our countdown for the 2010 College Baseball season by checking in on the Top 100 Players in the country. We will be providing one player per day until we reach number 1.

We continue the list today with number 81 in our countdown with sophomore LHP Ali Simpson. He is a 6-3 lefty out of Campbell River, British Columbia and attended Carihi Secondary High School. He had a solid high school career as he had 1.21 ERA in 79 innings pitched.

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Tags: 2010 Top Players, Bethune Cookman, CBB 2010 Top 100 Players, CBD Column, MEAC, Valley Baseball League

CBB Top 100 Countdown: Number 84 Mickey Wiswall (Boston College)

Brian Foley

– October 27, 2009Posted in: 2010 Top Players, ACC, Cape Cod Baseball League, CBD Column, Valley League

The CBB continues our countdown for the 2010 College Baseball season by checking in on the Top 100 Players in the country. We will be providing one player per day until we reach number 1.

We continue the list today with number 84 in our countdown with junior 1B/3B Mickey Wiswall of Boston College. He is a 6’0 207 pound left handed hitting third baseman who comes from Stoneham, MA and Belmont Hill where he played high school baseball. He played for three seasons at Belmont Hill under Edward Gallagher where Mickey hit over .450 in each of his seasons while totaling 11 homers and 64 RBI in his career. He was named to the Inner City League All-Star Game and was an AAU All-American.

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Tags: 2010 Top Players, ACC, Boston College, Cape Cod Baseball League, CBB 2010 Top 100 Players, CBD Column, Valley Baseball League

Q and A with FSU’s Sherman Johnson

Brian Foley

– September 30, 2009Posted in: ACC, Interviews with Players, Valley League

Florida State Sports Information Student Assistant Jon Lowell recently sat down with sophomore infielder Sherman Johnson. He discusses his summer experience in the Valley League where he played for the Covington Lumberjacks.

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Tags: ACC, Florida State, Interviews with Players, Valley Baseball League

Baseball America releases Top Prospects Lists for Summer Leagues and Team USA

Brian Foley

– September 2, 2009Posted in: 2010 Top Players, 2011 Top Players, Alaskan Summer League, Atlantic Collegiate, Baseball America, Cal Ripken Sr. Collegiate League, Cape Cod Baseball League, Clark Griffith League, Coastal Plain League, Florida Collegiate League, Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League, Jayhawk, MINK League, NECBL, Northwoods League, NYCBL, Prospect League, Team USA, Texas Collegiate League, Valley League, West Coast League

FROM BASEBALL AMERICA PRESS RELEASE

DURHAM, N.C.–Mississippi and Washington State lead all schools by placing five players apiece on Baseball America’s top prospects lists for 18 different summer college leagues and Team USA. Last summer, Louisiana State and Texas each led the nation with five players apiece on BA’s summer league lists, and those two teams wound up facing off for the national championship at the College World Series.

BA ranked the top 30 prospects for the talent-rich Cape Cod League, and the top 10 prospects in 17 other summer college leagues. In addition, the top 20 Team USA prospects were ranked.

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Q and A for Jan. 6th

Brian Foley

– January 6, 2009Posted in: Alaskan Summer League, California Collegiate, MAAC, Southern Conference, Texas Collegiate League, Valley League

Since we are awaiting the start of the 2009 College Baseball season, I thought I would start a weekly segment with users sending us questions about interesting topics. I will select about five questions every week to be posted with answers on Tuesday morning. You can send us your questions for next week by clicking here. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Alaskan Summer League, California Collegiate league, Canisius, Cape Cod Baseball League, MAAC, Manhattan, NECBL, Rider, Southern Conference, Texas Collegiate League, Transfers, Valley Baseball League, Western Carolina

Top 15 Valley League Hitters

Brian Foley

– January 5, 2009Posted in: ACC, Atlantic Sun, Big East, Big South, CAA, MAAC, SEC, Southern Conference, Sun Belt, Valley League, West Coast Conference

All Things Valley League has put together a Top 15 of the best hitters in the league during the 2008 season. The list is led by Florida International’s Tyler Townsend who had an outstanding summer with Winchester. He finished the season with a .387 average with 12 homers and 36 RBI in only 42 games. He also stole 14 bases in 17 attempts. Brandon Sizemore of College of Charleston comes in the runners up spot. He had a .377 average with 10 homers and 34 RBI. The rest of the top 5 is filled out by Marcus Nidfiffer (Kentucky), Drew Johnson (San Francisco), and Mickey Wiswall (Boston College). You can see a breakdown of each player by Read the rest of this entry »

LURAY CAPTURES 2008 JIM LINEWEAVER CUP AS VBL CHAMPIONS

Donald J. Boyles

– August 6, 2008Posted in: Valley League

Photograph courtesy Haymarket Joe Photography.

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

Luray, the #2 seed, completed a three games to none sweep of #6 Covington with a 4-0 victory on Tuesday night at Bulldog Field in Luray, Va. to capture the 2008 Valley Baseball League Jim Lineweaver Cup as league champions.

Luray (37-15) dropped its first game in the playoffs against Harrisonburg before reeling off seven consecutive victories to capture its second championship. The Wranglers, who joined the league in 2001 along with Covington, were also crowned champs in 2006 and were making their third consecutive appearance in the championship series.

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