2013 Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League Championship Series Amsterdam (31-16, 2-1) Vs. Elmira (21-26, 3-0) Dates: Aug
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2013 Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League Championship Series Amsterdam (31-16, 2-1) vs. Elmira (21-26, 3-0) Dates: Aug. 6 – Aug. 8 Game 1: Shuttleworth Park, Amsterdam, N.Y. (Aug. 6) Game 2: Dunn Field, Elmira, N.Y. (Aug. 7) Game 3: Shuttleworth Park, Amsterdam, N.Y. (Aug. 8, if nec.) CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES SCHEDULE How They Got He re Best-of-three series format Amsterdam finished the regular season on a 25-7 run and claimed Game 1: Elmira at Amsterdam, 7:05 p.m. (Aug. 6) the division championship in the PGCBL East by four games over Game 2: Amsterdam at Elmira, 7:00 p.m. (Aug. 7) second-place Glens Falls. The nationally-ranked Mohawks won at Game 3: Elmira at Amsterdam, 7:05 p.m. (Aug. 8) least 30 games for the third year in a row. Amsterdam outlasted Albany, two games to one, in the divisional finals. The Mohawks The Series: The third annual Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball completed the series with a 9-4 win in Game 3 on Sunday night. League Championship Series pits the nationally-ranked Amsterdam Elmira was the second of six PGCBL postseason teams to claim a Mohawks, representing the East, against the Elmira Pioneers, spot in the playoffs though the Pioneers finished third in the PGCBL representatives of the West. The Mohawks, founded in 1978, are West behind Watertown and Newark. The third-seeded Pioneers making their third-straight appearance in the PGCBLCS and fifth shut out the second-seeded Pilots, 5-0, in the opening round of the finals appearance in a row. The Pioneers, in their fourth trip to the playoffs and then swept Watertown, two games to none, in the postseason in eight years, are looking for their second summer divisional finals. Elmira is unbeaten in three playoff games this year. baseball league championship. This will be the first PGCBL postseason meeting between the two teams and second all-time. Regular Season Amsterdam and Elmira met in the 2010 New York Collegiate Team Leader Amsterdam Elmira Baseball League Championship Series. BA* John Nogowski .365 Chris Kalousdian .376 Hits John Nogowski 54 Chris Kalousdian 64 Season Series: Amsterdam captured the regular season series Home Runs Ed Charlton 6 Chris Knott 4 from Elmira with three wins in four total games. Elmira sprinted out Dylan Smith 6 to a 6-0 lead and held on for a soggy 7-6 victory at rainy Dunn Field Runs Batted In Dylan Smith 34 Chris Kalousdian 32 on June 13. Six days later, the Mohawks marched out to a 9-2 lead Stolen Bases Kyle Barrett 18 Chris Kalousdian 12 at home against the Pioneers and ended up out-lasting Elmira by a Runs Scored Josh Gardiner 40 Chris Kalousdian 38 9-7 score. Rain heavily impacted Elmira’s next trip to the Rug City, a Walks John Nogowski 29 Chris Knott 22 rain-shortened game that went just six innings and saw Amsterdam Wins Rich Vrana 6 Four players with 3 score six times in a rainy bottom of the sixth inning to pull out a ERA** Matt Snyder 1.35 Danny Britt 4.31 comeback win. The last meeting between the two teams came the Strikeouts Trey Wingenter 50 Danny Britt 42 day after the PGCBL All-Star Game. Amsterdam pounded out 13 * - Minimum 3.0 AB per team game hits and scored 10 runs in a 10-1 victory. ** - Minimum 1.0 innings pitched per team game Date (Site) Result June 13 (Elmira) Elmira 7-6 Playoffs June 19 (Amsterdam) Amsterdam 9-7 Team Leader Amsterdam Elmira June 27 (Amsterdam) Amsterdam 9-6 (6) BA Jordan Ebert .455 Andrew Nist .500 July 25 (Elmira) Amsterdam 10-1 Hits Jordan Ebert 5 Chris Kalousdian 6 Home Runs 3 players with1 Parker Curry 1 Head Coaches – Amsterdam: Keith Griffin Runs Batted In Dylan Smith 5 Parker Curry 4 Keith Griffin is in his fifth season as the manager of the Mohawks Stolen bases Jordan Ebert 2 3 players with1 and he is just two wins away from his fourth summer baseball Kyle Barrett 2 championship. His Mohawks have advanced to the league finals in Runs Scored 3 players with3 Chris Knott 4 each year he has been with the team. Griffin has won over 170 Taylor Hillson 4 games as the Amsterdam skipper and that includes more than 153 Walks Josh Gardiner 3 3 players with2 regular season victories in five years. He has a 21-4 mark in the Wins Matt Snyder 1 3 players with1 postseason, 9-4 in the PGCBL playoffs. Griffin is the Mohawks’ Trey Wingenter 1 franchise wins leader. The Amsterdam skipper is the first head ERA* Matt Snyder 0.00 3 players with0.00 coach in team history to spend more than three seasons at the Chris Kalica 0.00 helm. Over the last five years, he has collected three league Strikeouts Trey Wingenter 7 Victor Diaz 5 championships, four division titles and five playoff championship *Minimum 1.0 innings pitched per team game round appearances. Outside of the PGCBL, the Alabama native has collegiate head coaching experience from Okaloosa-Walton C.C. and Jefferson Davis C.C. Griffin’s JDCC team won the 1998 NJCAA Division II national title. Head Coaches – Elmira: Matt Burch Elmira’s Path to the Majors: Former Major League players and Matt Burch is in his fourth season overall as the head coach of the coaches that spent time in Elmira during the franchise’s minor Pioneers. Burch guided the Pioneers from 2006 through 2008 and league affiliate days include Earl Weaver, Lou Pinella, Cal Ripken then re-joined the team for his second go-around with the Southern Sr., Jim Palmer, Davey Johnson, Wade Boggs, Curt Schilling, John Tier summer collegiate-side. The Elmira, N.Y., native and former Valentin, Eric Wedge, Ellis Burks, Mike Greenwell and Brady first round draft pick helmed the Pioneers to the playoffs twice in his Anderson. first three years with the team. Burch’s 2007 Elmira squad won the NYCBL championship and went a dazzling 6-0 in the league Players in the Pros: In the 35-year history of the Mohawks playoffs. Heading into the PGCBLCS, Burch boasts a 9-2 franchise, over 130 players have gone on to play professional postseason mark; a Matt Burch-led Elmira team has not lost a baseball. There are currently 31 players active in the Majors, minors playoff game since 2006. Burch was a star pitcher at Thomas A and independent leagues. San Francisco Giants outfielder Hunter Edison High School and Virginia Commonwealth University. He was Pence was a member of the Schenectady Mohawks in 2002. The taken by the Royals in the first round of the 1998 draft. Matt was a Mohawks also boast three current AAA players in Brendan Harris player-coach for the Northeast League’s 2004 Elmira Pioneers. (Schenectady 1997), Cord Phelps (Amsterdam 2006) and Logan Darnell (Amsterdam 2008). The summer collegiate Pioneers have It’s you, again?! Amsterdam and Elmira are meeting in a league sent 22 players on to professional baseball in eight years. Cody championship series for the second time in four years. Prior to the Eppley, a member of the inaugural Elmira NYCBL squad in 2006, formation of the PGCBL in the fall of 2010, both the Mohawks and made his Major League debut with the Texas Rangers two years Pioneers were members of the New York Collegiate Baseball ago. Cody has pitched for both the Rangers and Yankees. He is League. Amsterdam and Elmira played for the NYCBL currently a teammate of former Amsterdam pitcher Logan Darnell championship in 2010. The Mohawks swept the series, 2-0. with the AAA Rochester Red Wings in the Minnesota farm system. Amsterdam:Titletown: Amsterdam is attempting to win its’ seventh Hey, Is He Related To That Guy, Ivy Edition? Short answer, yes, summer collegiate baseball championship. The Mohawks have won for both. Amsterdam’s Kevin Guthrie (Brown) is the son of former summer league crowns in 1988, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010 and 2012. Major League Baseball pitcher Mark Guthrie. The elder Guthrie was Overall, Amsterdam is making its’ 19th trip to the postseason and a seventh-round pick of the Minnesota Twins in 1987. He went on to 12th in the last 13 seasons. The Tribe is 21-4 in the league playoffs a 15-year Major League career that included stops with eight over the last five years under Keith Griffin and that includes a 15- different clubs. Mark was part of Minnesota’s World Series game winning streak that stretched from 2009 through 2011. championship team in 1991 and he pitched for five different playoff Amsterdam’s six summer baseball titles lead all PGCBL teams; no teams. Elmira’s Ryan Plantier (Cornell) is the son of former Major other league team has more than one. Five of the six titles for the League Phil Plantier. The elder Plantier was an 11th-round pick of Mohawks have been won since the team moved to Shuttleworth the Boston Red Sox out of high school in 1987. He went on to an Park in 2003. eight-year Major League career that included stops with five different teams. Guthrie and Plantier faced off twice during the 1992 #Winning: Amsterdam is the winningest team in the three-year season when Guthrie’s Twins hosted Plantier’s Red Sox at the history of the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League. Over the Metrodome. Plantier singled off of Guthrie in the seventh inning on league’s three-year history, Amsterdam has amassed a regular July 16; three days later, Guthrie struck out Plantier in the fifth.