BNN Report
News from the CBO, Minors, CCBL, and CYL
by Nat Wright-Kawolski
17 May 2313
CCBL Regular Season Ends
Another Commonwealth Collegiate Baseball League season has come to a close. The clubs that made the playoffs will be doing battle in a few days, while the also-rans will go home with their heads hung low, thinking of what might have been. The playoffs will culminate with the two best teams going head-to-head for the league's title in the College Series. To win it, you need talent, skill and a little luck.
The Commonwealth Collegiate Baseball League playoffs begin today with the Sweet Sixteen. For one lucky team, destiny is not far away. Soon one of the playoff teams will win the College Series and be honored as the best of the best. In due time, they can have their parade, hoist up that championship banner, and celebrate. It will be the crowning glory of the 2313 season. Here are the clubs that will be in action today:
#16 CIT Engineers vs #1Northeastern Huskies, #9 Harvard Crimson vs #8 Mass Atlantic Suns, #12 Tufts University Jumbos vs #5 Revere College Riders, #13 Boston College Eagles vs #4 Winthrop College Guardians, #14 Holy Cross Crusaders vs #3 ECSU Warriors, #11 Glowing Sea College Glowing Ones vs #6 Nuka University Mixologists, #10 Commonwealth University Terriers vs #7 Assumption Greyhounds and #15 Mass Bay University Beacons vs #2 WNEU Statesmen.
CCBL Stats Leaders
AVG - .449 - 1B Bingy Xiu, Rhode Island
HR - 28 - 2B Allen Strickland, Tufts
RBI - 68 - RF Yo Gert Kupp, Northeastern
WAR - 4.9 - 2B Stud Colgan, Assumption
R - 71 - 2B Stud Colgan, Assumption
SB - 39 - 2B Buns Palmer, Mass Bay
ERA - 1.86 - SP Rodney Jamieson, Winchester
W - 12 - SP Bullet Barnes, Northeastern
SV - 20 - CL Nelson Simmons, Mass Atlantic
WAR - 4.6 - SP Bullet Barnes, Northeastern
CG - 5 - SP Larry Gomez, Northeastern
K - 105 - SP Edgar Drezek, Nuka U
CCBL Records
SLG - .855 - 2B Stud Colgan, Assumption - former record: Sheedy Smith, Plymouth, .814, 2311
OPS - 1.410 - 2B Stud Colgan, Assumption - former record: Sheedy Smith, Plymouth, 1.316, 2311
Walks - 57 - 2B Stud Colgan, Assumption - former record: Woody Ano, Bunker Hill, 54, 2310
(Tied) Win % - 100% - SP Gomer Brown, WNEU, 9-0 and SP Gregory King, WNEU, 10-0 - former record: James Cully, Holy Cross, 1.000, 7-0, 2311