Date: Monday, August 11, 2008
Contact: Chris Kilcoyne, Sports Information Director
(804) 752-7387, christopherkilcoyne@rmc.edu
Yellow Jackets Baseball Well Represented in Summer Baseball Leagues
ASHLAND, VA – The Randolph-Macon College baseball program was well represented this summer in various wooden bat leagues across the state of Virginia, highlight by a quartet of players taking part in the MLB sanctioned Valley Baseball League.
Rising senior Greg Meleski was joined by rising juniors Mike Wallace, Kurt Brietmeyer and Kyle Hicks on various teams in the VBL that was formed in 1923.
Meleski, who is two-time First-Team All-ODAC selection, started 29 games and made 39 appearances at second base for the Waynesboro Generals. Meleski hit .240, recording 23 hits in 96 at bats. He had 12 RBI and eight extra base hits, while committing just three errors in 100 chances in the field.
A First-Team All-South Region selection for R-MC in 2008, Wallace finished second on the Front Royal Cardinals with a .295 batting average in 38 games this summer. Wallace had 33 hits and knocked in 18 runs to go along with 12 extra-base hits on the season.
Breitmeyer and Hicks were members of the Woodstock River Bandits and the Covington Lumberjacks pitching staffs, respectively. Breitmeyer made 16 appearances out of the bullpen for Woodstock, striking out 19 batters in 22 innings of work. Hicks was signed by Covington on July 15th, appearing in six games down the stretch, logging 8.2 innings pitched, posting a 1-0 record with a 1.04 ERA in helping the Lumberjacks to a spot in the VBL Championship Series.
The VBL is funded in part by a grant from Major League Baseball and is a member of the National Alliance of College Summer Baseball, a national affiliation of summer leagues. The league has produced well over 1,000 professional baseball players, including a record 79 former players drafted in the most recent Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft in June, 2008.
In all, Randolph-Macon had 20+ players on their current roster playing in various forms of summer leagues throughout Virginia. Kevin Davis, Matt Tiller, Kyle Hicks, Daniel Rollins, Bryan Hannum, James Moore and Nick Simons were all members of the Middle Peninsula Mariners of the Virginia Baseball League. The group helped the Mariners to an 18-4 record and the team’s first championship since joining the league in 2006.
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