2011 Northeast College Commitments

I haven't heard much but positive about Coach Gambino.
I can tell you last year while with VT he was recruiting my son and was the complete gentleman and scholar.
I have the highest regards for him.
I expect his players at BC will respond to him very favorably.

Our two BC bound boys Poore and Fernandes both re-committed w/ Gambino. I've exchange a couple emails but haven't met him, seems cool though.

i thought luke was a 2012?

Coach Gambino is a class guy and he'll do a very good job recruiting at BC.

Coach Mason from Northeastern has left for VT and again, Pat was a very good recruiter.

I base my thoughts and feelings about coaches recruiting on who, how and when these coaches contact us summer coaches about our players. I get many emails early in the year asking about my rosters. I will then get a second round mid-summer and anotther as we approach the fall. In return, I constantly update them on players. There are other schools who act as if we're not there and approach our players without ever contacting us. These guys get crossed off my information list.

Here's a couple of the committments from guys that have played with us.

Scott Hagan OF from NY to Binghamton U
Dane McDermott MIF from NJ to High Point U
Fabio Ricci OF from NY to Newberry College
Joey Maher RHP from NH to Northeastern U

BTW, putting together our roster for Jupiter and taking recomendations for players

Scott Heath (LHP - Westbrook H.S., ME) - UMaine
Sam Balzano (OF - Deering H.S., ME) - UMaine
Joe Stanevicz (LHP - Bangor H.S., ME) - UMaine
Luke Morrill (SS - Rockland H.S., ME) - UMaine

We have some stud Mainers, Vermonters, and Mass players added to the program this year. Should open up more opportunities for these guys in remote locations to get noticed.

Shawn
you mention that it will give some players from remote locations the opportunity to get noticed this fall. By whom? You haven't mentioned who is attending any of the games from a recruiting stand point?

Jeff posts about the local committments to Maine and thats great since the thread was about 2011 College Committments.

There are 30 other threads started that deal with the fall showcase league

Coach Merc,

Thanks for the tips on where I should post things and in which threads. I will certainly keep that in mind!

Love Always,

Shawn

Actually, Coach Merc isn't asking anything out of line. He is asking a legit question. You guys seem to have a solid list of coaches who go to these games, it would only help to recruit more fall baseball players to list them for each game...

The Clippers are proud to announce that Jeff Hoffman RHP from Shaker HS in Albany has committed to EAST CAROLINA University.

What a great opportunity to this fine player. He has elevated his game and received many offers these past few weeks.

http://www.phillyburbs.com/new...ents-to-college.html

Jeff Couter LHP ArchBishop Woods Villanova
Dave McInerney C Upper Moreland Cinnantti
Matt Hollenbeck LHP Hatboro-Horsham Georgetown
Kyle McCrossen SS ArchBishop Woods Temple

Sorry, had to edit Jeff above. Things changed at the last minute and he went from Elon to ECU. Here is the article.

Albany Newspaper Article

He had previously committed to Elon University, but that offer fell through.

what does that mean - and how does that happen?

A few more of the boys will be signing tomorrow:

Rob Alonso will sign with Dominican College
Jake Matranga will sign with Concordia College
Cristian Fiorito will sign with Concordia College
Brett Miller will sign with High Point University

That brings our class to 9 for the time being. May have another 1 or 2 over the next few days.

Mathew Kurelja Mifflinburg PA 6'-5" 215lb 1B committed to Youngstown State

A partial list of committed NJ players as provided by PG:

Josh Ake SS 5-11 175 R-R Hunterdon Central Regional Flemington NJ North Carolina

John Brucker SS 6-0 175 L-R Sparta Sparta NJ Maryland

Andrew Calabrese OF 6-2 200 L-R Bridgewater-Raritan Bridgewater NJ Hartford

Clayton Cerrato RHP 6-4 180 R-R Parsippany Parsippany NJ Rhode Island

Ed Charlton OF 6-1 195 R-R St. Augustine Prep Egg Harbor Township NJ NJIT

Kevin Comer RHP 6-4 210 R-R Seneca Shamong NJ Vanderbilt

Mike Cranston RHP 6-0 165 R-R Governor Livingston Berkeley Heights NJ Adelphi

Alex DeBellis C 5-11 200 R-R Pope John XXlll Kinnelon NJ UCONN

Scott DeJong 1B 6-4 215 R-R Eastern Christian North Haledon NJ UCONN

Myles Diggins 3B 6-1 195 R-R Rutgers Prepratory School Far Hills NJ Rhode Island

Scott Donaghue 3B 5-11 170 R-R Marlboro Morganville NJ Quinnipiac

Brandon Downes OF 6-3 170 R-R South Plainfield South Plainfield NJ Virginia

Andrew Dundon SS 5-10 170 R-R Boonton Lincoln Park NJ Marshall

Patrick Egan LHP 6-4 187 L-L Christian Brothers Aberdeen NJ Southern Connecticut State

John Elson SS 6-1 175 R-R Delbarton Basking Ridge NJ Lehigh

Greg Fazio SS 5-10 165 R-R Ridge HS Ridge NJ Rider

Robert Fonseca 1B 6-2 203 R-R Seton Hall Prep Madison NJ Northeastern

John Gandolfo OF 6-0 160 R-R Ramapo Franklin Lakes NJ Marshall

Kevin Gilbert OF 5-10 160 R-R Hunterdon Central Regional Whitehouse Station NJ Temple

Ian Glassman MIF 5-10 168 L-R Rutgers Prep Basking Ridge NJ UMBC

Jordan Gross LHP 6-2 193 L-L Don Bosco Prep Franklin Lakes NJ Tulane

Stephan Halibej C 6-1 195 R-R Seton Hall Prep Whippany NJ NJIT

Tyler Hinchliffe LHP 5-10 180 L-L Highland Erial NJ Boston College

Connor Kaden RHP 6-3 180 R-R Toms River South Ocean NJ Wake Forest

Ryan Karl OF 6-3 195 L-R Montville Towaco NJ Louisville

Brian Keane SS 6-0 175 R-R Montville Montville NJ NJIT

Sean Keselica 1B 6-2 205 L-L Voorhees Glen Gardner NJ Virginia Tech

Jeffrey "JB" Kole RHP 6-2 170 R-R Ridge Basking Ridge NJ Villanova

Michael Liegel RHP 5-10 160 R-R Pope John XXIII Oak Ridge NJ NJIT

Matthew Lorenzetti RHP 6-0 175 R-R Marlboro Marlboro NJ Quinnipiac

Matthew Margaritonda RHP 5-11 155 R-R St John Vianney Freehold NJ Marshall

Mike Mastroberti 2B 5-10 160 R-R Saint Joseph's Regional Ramsey NJ Lenoir-Rhyne

Brendan Mayers RHP 6-2 190 R-R Pope John Lodi NJ Rutgers

Dane McDermott MIF 5-11 170 L-R St Joe's Park Ridge NJ High Point

Andrew Murray C 6-2 215 R-R Westfield Westfield NJ Georgia Tech

Chris Napolitano RHP 6-0 180 R-R St. Rose Wall Township NJ Marist

John Norwood OF 6-1 180 R-R Seton Hall Prep Peapack-Gladstone NJ Vanderbilt

David Palladino RHP 6-9 240 R-R Emerson Emerson NJ South Carolina-Upstate

Eric Peterson 1B 6-4 190 R-R Blair Hackettstown NJ St. John's

Matthew Rakus RHP 6-4 200 R-R St Augustine Prep Sewell NJ NJIT

Mike Rampone SS 5-10 170 R-R Randolph Mendham NJ NJIT

Kyle Rubbinaccio RHP 6-3 190 R-R Manalapan Manalapan NJ Notre Dame

Chris Suseck MIF 5-11 190 R-R Hunterdon Central Regional Flemington NJ Coastal Carolina

Carl Thomore OF 6-1 195 R-R East Brunswick East Brunswick NJ Rutgers

Vincent Tranchina C 6-2 190 R-R Red Bank Catholic Manasquan NJ St. John's

Bill Van Meerbeke RHP 5-11 165 L-R Monmouth Regional Eatontown NJ NJIT

Michael White OF 6-2 190 Salisbury East Orange NJ Louisville

Jake Winston LHP 6-2 185 R-L Manalapan High School Clarksburg NJ Elon

Jon Young RHP 6-3 170 R-R Old Bridge Old Bridge NJ Rutgers

Vinny Zarrillo OF 5-10 175 L-L Lacy Forked River NJ Rutgers

On a related note, Ryan Fuller from Lyme Old Lyme HS in Ct moved up from UConn Avery Point to UConn (Storrs).

Just getting started on this website. Noticed Birdman14 posted on December 15th 2010 the 2011 players who signed a NLI in NJ. Division III and recruited walkons don't sign NLI's. You have both on this list.

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Originally posted by bluestreak:
Just getting started on this website. Noticed Birdman14 posted on December 15th 2010 the 2011 players who signed a NLI in NJ. Division III and recruited walkons don't sign NLI's. You have both on this list.

List is off the PG site. I removed the one d3 player from the list and changed the wording to read "a partial list of committed players as reported by PG" to reflect what and where the list came from.

Thanks for pointing this out.

A text from Mike Campo reminded me that I neglected to note my son's commitment (Christian Ferlan, Bishop Guertin, Nashua, NH). Christian will be playing baseball for Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA for the next 4 years. They are a DIII school in the Centennial Conference (Johns Hopkins is probably the most nationally recognized school in the conference). It was a very "interesting" process. He had a few other schools interested, but chose somewhere he felt was "far enough" away from home, academically challenging, and where he could make an impact sooner.

Its a great school, he'll have a wonderful college experience! Nice campus, great faculty, good choice!

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Originally posted by JohnF:
A text from Mike Campo reminded me that I neglected to note my son's commitment (Christian Ferlan, Bishop Guertin, Nashua, NH). Christian will be playing baseball for Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA for the next 4 years. They are a DIII school in the Centennial Conference (Johns Hopkins is probably the most nationally recognized school in the conference). It was a very "interesting" process. He had a few other schools interested, but chose somewhere he felt was "far enough" away from home, academically challenging, and where he could make an impact sooner.

M'berg grad here, congratulations!

John,

Congrats!!! That is excellent. hope he enjoys his season under Painter this year at BG. He is a good man and good coach.

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Originally posted by JohnF:
Christian will be playing baseball for Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA

The Mules!!

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Originally posted by AntzDad:

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Originally posted by JohnF:
Christian will be playing baseball for Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA

The Mules!!

Even the girls teams are called the Lady Mules. Talk about an oxymoron!

Wow! I forget sometimes this is a *northeast* and not just NH board (even though sometimes it feels like more NH/NY are posting). People ask "how" we found Muhlenberg and why not something closer to home. First you have to realize you're not being recruited or it's not in the cards to play D1 baseball (be realistic, if you're a junior now and you haven't been contacted, guess what). We started by looking at college websites and eventually ended up at http://www.d3baseball.com/. From there it was a process of finding areas you'd like to play in and/or schools that fit your academic dreams/needs. After that it's up to you to contact those schools, send video, visit, and once you find a few that match - attend their camp or find out which ones they're attending. Consider what the larger camps are - meat markets where D2/D3 coaches go to watch specific players on their radar. How do you think a player got on their radar? Yes, you can "get discovered" at one of those events, but you have to stand out. Christian did get interest from St. Michael's in VT based on a Top96 event, but it wasn't a "we really want you" type interest - it was "it would be nice to have you". He went to a Muhlenberg "camp" the same weekend the Showcase League was at URI and after playing HS Football on Sat. night. After that camp, the coach asked him to come back for a visit and the rest is history. We used the opportunity to also visit Dickinson, but in the end Coach Goff put on the we really want you full court press. Christian also garnered interest from a number of the D3 schools that attend NH Showcase Events; however, those that called didn't interest him. He knew he wouldn't be recruited by URI nor did FPU, SNHU, or UML show any interest. Fortunately for him, even though he was effective in the Showcase League - he learned pretty quick where he'd fit in based and focused his attention at that level. At the very least, his Showcase League experience proved to him that he could compete with "that level" of player even though he didn't throw in the high 80's/low 90's. Sometimes it's a matter of being a pitcher, throwing strikes, changing speeds, picking your spots, and keeping your defense on their toes. A low ERA and WHIP were things he's more proud of than number of strikeouts.

Anyway, Christian is very excited with his choice - his personality should fit it well with the mascot too! As parents we're excited that we now have an excuse for the next 4 years to head to FL for a week. I'll also finally get to see the other Holman Stadium in Vero Beach. Could be tough to see him play during the season, but we'll sure try. It's only a short 6-7 hour car ride.

Brent Edmunds from Winnacunnet was recruited by and will be attending Brandeis University.

congratulations john f. playing in college is great stuff, no matter where.

litchfield, huh...........what ever happened to Billy Ninteau, good baseball player, better hockey player. great kid and family.

Agree totally about Billy, great family too. His Dad, Dave, coached all my boys in LL/CR as well as my oldest son's travel baseball team. Billy ended up playing hockey in college at Stonehill. Right now I think he's working at Fidelity in Merrimack - I haven't talked with Dave for a bit since his youngest and my oldest are now off at college.

my oldest played travel ball with Billy. had a blast traveling around that summer. Dave was a riot.

hard to believe the little one is in college. wow.

Anyone know how John Hennessey is doing at BC??

Just looked it up....he hasn't seen any playing time as of yet according to the Eagles stats.

Hopefully he sees some time. We always liked watching him play in hs!

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Originally posted by JohnF:
Wow! I forget sometimes this is a *northeast* and not just NH board (even though sometimes it feels like more NH/NY are posting). People ask "how" we found Muhlenberg and why not something closer to home. First you have to realize you're not being recruited or it's not in the cards to play D1 baseball (be realistic, if you're a junior now and you haven't been contacted, guess what). We started by looking at college websites and eventually ended up at http://www.d3baseball.com/. From there it was a process of finding areas you'd like to play in and/or schools that fit your academic dreams/needs. After that it's up to you to contact those schools, send video, visit, and once you find a few that match - attend their camp or find out which ones they're attending. Consider what the larger camps are - meat markets where D2/D3 coaches go to watch specific players on their radar. How do you think a player got on their radar? Yes, you can "get discovered" at one of those events, but you have to stand out. Christian did get interest from St. Michael's in VT based on a Top96 event, but it wasn't a "we really want you" type interest - it was "it would be nice to have you". He went to a Muhlenberg "camp" the same weekend the Showcase League was at URI and after playing HS Football on Sat. night. After that camp, the coach asked him to come back for a visit and the rest is history. We used the opportunity to also visit Dickinson, but in the end Coach Goff put on the we really want you full court press. Christian also garnered interest from a number of the D3 schools that attend NH Showcase Events; however, those that called didn't interest him. He knew he wouldn't be recruited by URI nor did FPU, SNHU, or UML show any interest. Fortunately for him, even though he was effective in the Showcase League - he learned pretty quick where he'd fit in based and focused his attention at that level. At the very least, his Showcase League experience proved to him that he could compete with "that level" of player even though he didn't throw in the high 80's/low 90's. Sometimes it's a matter of being a pitcher, throwing strikes, changing speeds, picking your spots, and keeping your defense on their toes. A low ERA and WHIP were things he's more proud of than number of strikeouts.

Anyway, Christian is very excited with his choice - his personality should fit it well with the mascot too! As parents we're excited that we now have an excuse for the next 4 years to head to FL for a week. I'll also finally get to see the other Holman Stadium in Vero Beach. Could be tough to see him play during the season, but we'll sure try. It's only a short 6-7 hour car ride.

Great strategy. I did exactly the same thing with my older son who ended up at Kenyon College several years ago. The video was key as was the fact that he had attended one PG showcase and the coach was able to call PG up and see what they thought of him.

Any Bostonians know how Nelphi Zapata is doing? Last I heard the Mets drafted him. He could sure swing it!!