Spring Break
ECU baseball players take to the Cape
Addison Harvey
Issue date: 6/24/09 Section: Sports
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From the Coastal Plain League, Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League or the historic Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL), players get selected to teams and leagues and spend their summers playing baseball.
The CCBL is the most prestigious of the summer wood bat leagues.
The League recently began its 125th season. It also plays host to the best college baseball players in America every year on its 10 different teams.
Centered in the state of Massachusetts, the league has teams in the cities of Bourne, Brewster, Chatham, Cotuit, Falmouth, Harwich, Hyannis, Orleans, Wareham and South Yarmouth.
After one of the best seasons in ECU baseball history, which saw the Diamond Bucs post a record of 46-20 and advance to the Super Regionals, there is a record number of Pirates taking part in the prestigious CCBL this summer.
Trent Whitehead, Seth Maness, Dustin Harrington, Kevin Brandt, Kyle Roller and Devin Harris have all been selected to join teams in the Cape Cod.
Being selected to the CCBL is no small task.
Cape Cod general managers, scouts and coaches only select the top players from universities coast to coast to join the league.
Only three Pirates (Trent Ashcraft, Stephen Batts and Kyle Roller) were selected to participate in the Cape Cod last summer.
"This is a once in a lifetime opportunity," said Brandt. "Not just everyone gets to go up and play in the Cape, so when I was told that I was invited up there I jumped on the opportunity."
Brandt had a stellar freshman season for the Pirates posting a 9-2 record and earning two freshman All-American honors.
Whitehead and Harrington joined Brandt this summer on the Hyannis Mets roster. This trio of Pirates is venturing into the Cape for the first time and it is a unique experience to be on the same team as one of your collegiate teammates.
"It is going to be fun," Brandt said. "Players like Trent and Dustin are fun guys to play with. We all had a great time this year in school ball and I'm looking forward to carrying this fun up to the cape with these guys."
Conference USA first team All Conference selections Seth Maness and Kyle Roller joined the Bourne Braves.
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