Mesa Baseball in the NJCAA Division II World Series Overall Record: 47-12; Conf. 27-11; Home 35-5; Away 12-7 Day Date Opponent Site Time Notes Sat Feb 1 Northern AZ U. Club (DH) Mesa W 10-1, 9-0 Statrting at No. 1: The Mesa baseball 121 stolen bases are No. 11 in the nation and they Sun Feb 2 Southern Idaho Mesa W 7-0 team has been ranked in the top 10 all have been caught just 27 times. Freshman Alex Tue Feb 4 Arizona St. U. Club Mesa W 18-2 year long, but the final poll put the T-Birds Gudac is tied for No. 35 with 23 steals in 27 tries Sat Feb 8 Arizona St. U. Club (DH) Mesa W 8-1 W 14-4 at No. 1. and sophomore Dillon Fahr is tied for 48th with 21 Sun Feb 9 Northwest Colorado Mesa W 6-3 First Time Since 2006 This is Mesa’s steals out of 25 attempts. Mon Feb 10 Northwest Colorado Mesa W 5-0 first apearance in the NJCAA Division II Other National Leaders: Alex Gudac and Tue Feb 11 Okanagan Mesa W 11-1 World Series since 2006. That ended a freshman Jordan Zimmerman are tied for 23rd in Fri Feb 14 at Phoenix* Phoenix, AZ W 6-4 (13) string of three straight years for MCC. the country with five triples each. The team ERA Sat Feb 15 Phoenix* Mesa W 11-8 Worst to First: This year has been a of 2.63 is No. 5. The team fielding percentage Sun Feb 16 Thompson River Mesa W 11-4 remarkable turn-arounf for Mesa baseball. of .964 is No. 4 and the runners cuaght stealing Last season the T-Birds finished 25-31 for percentage of .500 is No. 5. Tue Feb 18 Glendale* Mesa L 0-5 for a .446 winning percentage. That was Mesa has a storied baseball Wed Feb 19 at Glendale* Glendale, AZ L 7-8 Storied History: actually the worst record ever in MCC’s history. As noted above, MCC has suffered only Sat Feb 22 at Pima (DH) Tucson, AZ L 2-3 W 9-3 49-year baseball history. There have only four losing seasons in the 49 years it has been Mon Feb 24 Arizona Christian U. JV Mesa L 5-9 even been four losing seasons Amazingly, playing baseball. The program was started in Tue Feb 25 Yavapai* (DH) Mesa W 7-1, W 8-7 the team’s 47-12 record at the start of the 1966 by legendary college coach Jim Brock. He Fri Feb 28 at GateWay* Phoenix, AZ W 1-0 World Series is a .797 percentage, the eventually became the coach at Arizona State Sat Mar 1 GateWay* Phoenix, AZ L 5-6 best in those 49 years. and was inducted into the College Baseball Hall Tue Mar 4 Chandler-Gilbert* Mesa W 2-0 Tough Conference; Great Results The of Fame in 2007. He led the T-Birds to national Wed Mar 5 at Chandler-Gilbert* Chandler, AZ W 6-2 Arizona Community College Athletic Con- championships in 1970 and 1971. Jim Frey took Fri Mar 7 Paradise Valley* Mesa W 5-1 ference (ACCAC) is annually one of the over in 1972 and won another national title. Sat Mar 8 at Paradise Valley* Paradise Valley, AZ L 1-5 toughest in the nation and is comrise, as MCC and the Major Leagues: A total of 20 Wed Mar 12 Utah St. U. Club (DH) Mesa W 5-0, W 3-2 are many junior college leagues, of both former Mesa players have reached the major Thu Mar 13 Utah St. U. Club (DH) Mesa W 3-2, W 14-4 DI and DII schools. As illustrated below, leagues as outlined elsewhere in these notes. Tue Mar 18 Scottsdale* Mesa W 8-7 Mesa tied for the overall championship Dozens of others have been selected in the major Wed Mar 19 at Scottsdale* Scottsdale, AZ L 1-2 (10) with DI Central Arizona. Cochise and league draft and over 100 are listed as having Thu Mar 20 Arizona Christian U. JV Mesa W 10-1 South Mountain played for the Western played in the minor leagues. Sat Mar 22 at Arizona Western* (DH) Yuma, AZ W 2-0, W 6-5 District championship and DI World Series Tue Mar 25 Central Arizona* Mesa W 3-1, L 1-11 berth. During the regular season the Wed Mar 26 Arizona Christian U. JV Mesa W 11-3 T-Birds played those two teams a total of Sat Mar 29 Cochise* (DH) Mesa W 4-3 (8), W 6-4 four times and won all of them. Overall, Tue April 1 at Eastern Arizona* (DH) Thatcher, AZ W 5-2, L 3-8 MCC had a 14-3 record in games against Wed April 2 Arizona St. U. Club Mesa canc. DI schools. Fri April 4 at GateWay* Phoenix, AZ W 2-1 2014 Honors: Five MCC players received Sat April 5 GateWay* Mesa W 5-3 post-season honors. Freshman pitcher Tue April 8 at Chandler-Gilbert* Chandler, AZ W 11-6 Joseph Carvalho, freshman catcher Zack Soria and freshman third baseman Jordan Wed April 9 Chandler-Gilbert* Mesa W 7-4 Zimmerman all were named first team Fri April 11 at Paradise Valley* Paradise Valley, AZ L 2-3 ACCAC Standings all-ACCAC. Sophomore pitcher John Sat April 12 Paradise Valley* Mesa W 13-10 Havird and sophomore outfielder Cole Team Conf All Tue April 15 at Scottsdale* Scottsdale, AZ L 2-4 Loncar were chose to the second team. All *Mesa 27-11 47-12 Wed April 16 Scottsdale* Mesa W 11-1 (8) five were named all-Region I. Central Arizona 27-11 42-16 Fri April 18 South Mountain* Mesa W 8-2 Dynamic Pitching Duo: Joseph Carvalho *GateWay 24-14 36-23 Sat April 19 at South Mountain* Phoenix, AZ W 3-2 (12) and John Havird have given Mesa one South Mountain 23-15 38-25 Tue April 22 Phoenix* Mesa W 5-4 of the best 1-2 pitching combinations in *Scottsdale 22-16 34-23-1 Wed April 23 at Phoenix* Phoenix, AZ W 4-1 school history. Carvalho, a freshman, has Pima 22-16 34-25 Fri April 25 at Glendale* Glendale, AZ W 6-3 gone 11-1 with a 1.38 ERA and Havird Cochise 19-19 37-27 Sat April 26 Glendale* Mesa L 5-6 10-1 and a 1.31 ERA. Havird’s ERA is *Glendale 18-20 28-24 Thu May 1 Region I vs. East. Utah Mesa W 11-1 (5) tenth best in the country and Carvalho *Paradise Valley 17-21 30-25 Fri May 2 Region I vs. East. Utah Mesa W 8-2 (7) ranks No. 14. Arizona Western 16-22 31-24 Thu May 8 Region I vs. Scottsdale Mesa W 8-2 Behind the Plate: Freshman catcher Zack Yavapai 15-21 26-25 Fri May 9 Region I vs. Scottsdale Mesa W 4-3 Soria gives Mesa potent weapon behind the *Chandler-Gilbert 15-23 31-25 Home games bold plate. He has nailed 18 of 27 would-be base *Phoenix 12-26 25-30 *ACCAC game stealers. Eastern Arizona 7-29 15-37 Running Game: The T-Birds love to run. Their *Division II schools Find Mesa athletics on Facebook Mesa Community College Athletics at Mesa Community College is on Twitter at Mesa CC Athletics. Athletics. Mesa Community College Baseball Roster 2014 R/W Name Class Pos. B-T Ht. Wt. Hometown High School 1 Drew Lacomb So. IF S-R 5-10 180 Las Vegas, Nev. Spring Valley 2 Jordan Rose Fr. C R-R 5-10 190 Tremonton, Utah Bear River 3 Dillon Fahr So. OF R-R 5-8 150 Las Vegas, Nev. Coronado 4 Joshua Murtha Fr. P R-R 6-0 190 Las Vegas, Nev. Faith Lutheran 6 Wes Byers So. OF R-R 5-9 155 Prescott Valley, AZ Bradshaw Mountain 7 Zack Soria Fr. C R-R 5-10 190 Chicago, Ill. St. Rita 8 Levi Larmour So. IF/OF R-R 6-1 180 Oakville, Ontario Stephen Lewis Secondary 9 Daniel Lutz Fr. P/IF S-R 5-10 155 Phoenix, AZ Shadown Mountain 10 Casey Congleton So. P R-R 6-3 190 Las Vegas, Nev. Centennial 11 Joseph Carvalho Fr. P R-R 5-11 165 Palmdale, Calif. Paraclete 15 James Anderson Fr. OF R-R 5-10 180 Henderson, Nev. Coronado 16 Ryan Reinhart Fr. P R-R 5-9 170 Albuquerque, NM Sandia 17 Marios Mylonas So. C/1B R-R 5-11 180 Scottsdale, AZ Desert Mountain 18 Cole Loncar So. OF R-R 6-0 205 Olympia, Wash. Olympia 19 Chad Leonard So. IF R-R 6-4 235 Mesa, AZ Queen Creek 20 Jordan Zimmerman Fr. IF R-R 6-0 200 Mesa, AZ Red Mountain 23 Casey Moses Fr. IF R-R 6-0 195 Las Vegas, Nev. Centennial 24 John Havird So. P L-L 6-2 170 Mesa, AZ Red Mountain 25 Danny Garlid Fr. IF R-R 6-3 165 Tempe, AZ Seton Catholic 26 Sean McGuire Fr. P R-R 5-11 160 Phoenix, AZ Desert Vista 27 Nick Schuman So. P R-L 6-5 220 Mesa, AZ Westwood 29/11 Alex Gudac Fr. IF R-R 5-10 165 West Jordan, Utah Juan Diego Catholic 30 Nick Williams So.