Marshall University Athletics
Herd Baseball Players Set For Summer Ball
6/2/2009 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
June 2, 2009
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Members of the Thundering Herd baseball team will spend the summer all throughout the country playing in some of the most prestigious collegiate baseball leagues the sport has to offer.
Marshall will be represented in 12 states this summer as far northeast as New York and Massachusetts and as far west as California, Hawaii and Alaska.
Shane Farrell and Austin Coan will compete in the Cape Cod Baseball League as members of the Falmouth Commodores and Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox respectively.
Four players, Ryan Kiel, Arik Sikula, Dan Straily and Josh Valle, will participate in the Northwoods League this summer. Kiel will pitch for the Eau Claire Express (Wisconsin) while Sikula and Straily will be situated in Minnesota, playing for the Rochester Honkers and St. Cloud River Bats respectively. Valle will compete with the Battle Creek Bombers in Michigan during the summer months.
The following is the complete list of where members of the Herd will play baseball this summer.
New York Collegiate Baseball League
Alfredo Brito - Mohawk Valley Diamond Dogs
Mike Mason - Mohawk Valley Diamond Dogs
Clark Griffith Baseball League
Kyle Blank - Vienna Senators
The Sierra Baseball League
Joe Church - San Jose Seals
Cape Cod Baseball League
Austin Coan - Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox
Shane Farrell - Falmouth Commodores
Texas Collegiate League
Ben Frith - East Texas Lumberjacks
Great Lakes Collegiate Summer League
Tyler Gatrell - Southern Ohio Copperheads
Ian Kadish - Cincinnati Steam
Alaska Baseball League
Thor Meeks - Anchorage Bucs
Hawaii Collegiate Baseball League
Eric Semeniuk
Kenny Socorro
The Valley League
Rhett Stafford - Waynesboro Generals
Great Lakes Baseball League
Ramone Tate - Old Brooklyn Hurricanes
Northwood's League
Ryan Kiel - Eau Claire Express
Arik Sikula - Rochester Honkers
Dan Straily - St. Cloud River Bats
Josh Valle - Battle Creek Bombers James White - Battle Creek Bombers
