Baseball
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Laker
Baseball Player Awarded the 2007 Rawlings/NJCAA Baseball
Big Stick Award.
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Results
of the D1 Region XX Tournament
Congratulations to Garrett's John Howard and
Kris Torrance for being named to the All-Tournament Team. |
Congratulations to Laker players Mike
Dobre and Mike Deleeuw named to the First Team All
region XX and to Joe Wilt, Sherman Reed and Greg Beachy
named to the second team.
Congratulations to Laker players Mike Dobre
(first team) and Mike Deleeuw (second team), named
to the 2007 All-Maryland
JUCO Conference Baseball Teams. |
Baseball
News & Updates
2007 Garrett Baseball Season Preview
McHenry, MD – The Laker baseball team will open up its 2007 campaign
with a three-day six-game tournament starting on Feb 23 in Richmond, VA. This
year marks the 30th anniversary of Garrett College Baseball and also marks
for the first time in his three-year tenure, back-to-back recruiting classes
for Head Coach Eric Hallenbeck. The Lakers will try to finish a season over
.500 for the first time since 2000 when they finished 25-18 and runner up in
the region. With eleven returners from a year ago, eight transfers and a solid
freshman class, the 2007 season should be an exciting one for the boys in blue. “We
finally have some experience this year. In two years we have had a total of
12 sophomores. This year alone we have 16 with 13 of them getting a lot of
playing time a year ago,” said Coach Hallenbeck. “The time is now
for us to get this program turned around. We have received a strong and much
appreciated commitment from the college by helping us fund a new indoor baseball
facility, clubhouse, JV program and additions to the coaching staff. With the
recent additions and this being my third season at the helm, we need to start
winning more games. I think the players that are in the program now are very
capable of doing just that.”
The ’07 Lakers will only go as far
as their pitching will take them. Garrett has just two starters
from a year ago, but has five newcomers looking to crack
the starting rotation. “Pitching will be a question
mark due to the lack of experience we have, however, I think
we are talented. All of them at times threw the ball well
in the fall, so I think once they get some real innings under
their belt we will be fine.”
The Lakers will continue to play their aggressive
style of baseball, but GC needs the pitching staff to keep
games close to allow for that aggressive style. “Overall
team speed is the best it’s been during my tenure.
I believe we will hit and defensively we are solid. Add to
the above great team chemistry and a couple of breaks here
and there, we will be in the “thick of things.”
About
the Program
One of the best continues to get better. Garrett College
and its baseball program offer the following:
- A Division I program in the NJCAA
- The seventh smallest school in the nation to compete
in NJCAA Division I.
- Forty players to sign professional contracts in thirty
years.
- Eight NJCAA All Americans.
- New indoor practice facility and professional-style lockerrooms
- One of the top amateur fields in Maryland
- Only the second team in the Maryland JUCO conference
and NJCAA Region XX to have lights.
- Continual contact with four year schools and professional
scouts.
- Despite a very demanding schedule, the team has averaged
over twenty wins a year for the past nine years.
- A choice of 2
co-ed residence halls or off campus housing.
- Each season the maximum number of games allowed is scheduled.
Garrett College has a four-day class schedule (1½-hr
classes two times per week). This allows our players to miss
no academic time in the fall, and most games are scheduled
Friday, Staurday or Sunday in the spring to allow more class
time than most other educational institutions
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Garrett is the second junior college in Maryland equipped
with lights. During the summer of 1998 a new impressive
10' x 36' electronic scoreboard was also installed. |
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2007-2008 Baseball Team
