6th Annual Fall Minuteman Baseball Clinic at UMASS

10/16/10

The UMass coaching staff would like to invite you of our 5th Annual Fall Minuteman Baseball Clinic. The Clinic will be held on Sunday, October 16, 2010 @ 11:00 a.m. The UMass coaching staff will be directing and evaluating the Clinic. This will be a great opportunity for you pick up some valuable pointers and to show off your baseball skills.

We will have a maximum of two 18 player teams. Each team will consist of 11 position players and 7 pitchers. The Clinic will give position players an opportunity to run, take infield, and batting practice as well as play a 7 inning ball game. Pitchers will pitch in the bullpen, have their pitches clocked, and pitch 1 inning in the ballgame- facing 5 hitters.

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Camp Cost: $125.00

Bryan Garrity Throws First Pitch At Fenway Park

The UMass baseball team and head coach Mike Stone were honored by the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday for winning the 2008 Beanpot Championship by throwing out the first pitch of the Red Sox' game vs. the Baltimore Orioles at Fenway Park. Senior catcher and team captain Bryan Garrity was given the honor of throwing the first pitch while his teammates looked on from behind the mound. The Minutemen defeated Boston College, 4-3, on April 15 at Fenway to claim their first Beanpot title since 2000. A week earlier, UMass beat Harvard, 3-0, in the semifinal game in Lynn, Mass. to earn its trip to the finals. The Minutemen have won four Beanpots since they started playing in the tournament in 1996.

The Minutemen defeated the Eagles behind a fantastic pitching performance from Mike Dicato. The junior righty took a no-hitter into the ninth inning before allowing a bloop single with no outs. The Eagles looked to make a comeback in the bottom of the ninth, but Mitchell Eilenberg shut down the Eagle's offense by retiring the final two batters of the game to record the save. Brian Baudinet and Jim Macdonald each finished with two hits for UMass.

DiCato's performance stirred up memories of the last UMass no-hitter, the third in the program's history, thrown by Scott Barnsby at Fenway Park in the 1997 Beanpot vs. Northeastern, 1-0. After starting the game by retiring the first seven batters of the game before allowing a walk, DiCato went on to get out 15 of the next 16 batters.