Fall Baseball Tryouts August 27-29; 12 Members of 2010 Team Moving On

Herkimer baseball has scheduled an open tryout that will begin August 27, 2010.   In order to participate in fall baseball, interested players must attend this workout.  The workout will be held at the baseball field at 4:00 pm.

Captains Mike Scotellaro and Vinny Gaetano (pictured, batting against SUNY Adirondack in April) will lead a young group of talented recruits into the 2010 fall season.  Herkimer has added four Division I transfers in OF/RHP Willie Gabay (Austin Peay University), OF/RHP Hassan Evans (Binghamton University), C/RHP Matt Gaine (Jacksonville University), and catcher Lewis Sebrell (University of Oregon).  Head Coach Jason Rathbun likes what he has in these four transfer student athletes. “I think Willie, Hassan, and Matt will be able to help us on the mound right away as the reports on them have them sitting at the lower 90’s on the radar gun.  Willie and Hassan will also add a lot of speed to our outfield and will be factors out there for us as well.  Matt will be counted on more behind the plate, than on the mound, but having Lewis join the rotation behind the plate will allow us to use Matt on the mound.” stated Coach Rathbun. 

Other key recruits for the season include Martin County Florida standout 3B/RHP Brandon Overstreet.  Overstreet comes from the same high school as two former All Americans Keith Hendricks (2007) and Brandon Jones (2010). OF Tom Fusco, who has hit in the middle of W.T. Clarke’s state-ranked high school program the past three years, also joins a talented group of high school student athletes that includes catcher Jake LaBarre (Canastota), SS Tyler Hall (Fonda-Fultonville), 2B Tyler Barhydt (Fort Plain), OF Vinny Barbato (Whitesboro), INF Justin Weakly (Poland), OF Dennis Lafontaine (Queensbury), SS Kyle Parmenter (Cambridge),  and catcher Tim Whalen (New Hartford).  Herkimer added some pitching depth in The Observer Dispatch’s Player of the Year Brandon Jones (Westmoreland), LHP Joe Moses (Sherburne), RHP Jeremy Furey (Spa Catholic), RHP Kyle Schwartz (Medford), RHP Tim Smith (Auburn), and RHP Ryan Corey (Toronto).

While new students get ready to attend Herkimer, former players get ready to try on a new uniform for their new teams:

Al Ferenti:  St. Rose, NY – NCAA DII – Scholarship

Lee Foxton:  Slippery Rock University, PA – NCAA DII – Scholarship

Kris Barone:  Mount Olive College, NC – NCAA DII – Scholarship

Amar Lewis:  Lincoln Memorial, TN – NCAA DII – Scholarship

George Hajjar:  Felician College, NJ – NCAA DII – Scholarship

TJ Abounader:  Tusculum College, TN – NCAA DII – Scholarship

Brett Hauber:   Felician College, NJ - NCAA DII – Scholarship

Lane Potter:  Brescia University, KY - NAIA – Scholarship

Brandon Jones:  St. Rose, NY - NCAA DII

Andy Eggleston:  Keystone College, PA – NCAA DIII

Jeff Sergott:  SUNY Brockport, NY - NCAA DIII

Kevin Hedge:  Greensboro College, NC – NCAA DIII