June 10, 2004
FAIRFIELD, Conn. - Four Fairfield University baseball players will spend the summer playing in several NCAA and Major League Baseball sanctioned wood bat leagues. Junior-to-be Doug Anderson (Randolph, N.J./Delbarton), rising junior Tom Arpino (Brooklyn, N.Y./Xaverian), rising senior Tim Dugan (Cedar Grove, N.J./Seton Hall Prep), and rising sophomore Ed Kamintzky (Astoria, N.Y./Regis) will represent Fairfield this summer in two different leagues.
Anderson, Arpino, and Kamintzky will play in the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League (ACBL), which has teams in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Arpino will be playing in his second season with the Metro New York Cadets. He will be joined this season by Kamintzky, who will make his summer collegiate baseball debut.
Anderson is also playing his second season of summer baseball, this year for the Jersey Pilots of the ACBL. Last season, Anderson played for the Monmouth Monarchs of the Atlantic Baseball Confederation Collegiate League (ABCCL), and also was a temporary player in the famed Cape Cod League.
Dugan will spend his summer, playing for the Berkshire Dukes of the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL). The Dukes are playing their inaugural season in the NECBL, and the team president is former Boston Red Sox GM, Dan Duquette.
Anderson finished the 2004 season for Fairfield leading the team in walks (21), on base percentage (.381), and hit by pitches (5). He hit .279 with four homeruns and 29 runs batted in. He played consistently all season, especially in the early portion where he went 3-for-4 with two homeruns and six runs batted in against Miami (Ohio). In the Stags next outing, he smacked a two-run homerun in the bottom of the sixth inning to help Fairfield to a 4-3 win over Columbia.
Arpino split time behind the plate as catcher for the Stags, and batted .267 with seven runs batted in, and seven doubles in 86 at-bats. In the 11-inning thriller against Rider he came off the bench to go 3-for-3 with a run scored and a run batted in. In the 11th, he ripped a two-out single, and after a double, by Jim Girolamo (Wayland, Mass./Wayland), score the winning run off a single from Nick Hudyma (New Britain, Conn./New Britain).
Dugan, proved to make a case for the number-one starter position for next season, after leading the team in strikeouts as a junior with 61. Despite a 3-8 record, the New Jersey native pitched effectively during the course of the season. Against Marist on March 27, he struck out a season and career-high 11 hitters in a hard luck, 1-0 loss in extra innings. Against Niagara on April 24 he pitched a complete-game, allowing only two runs, and striking out six, for the win.
Kamintzky had a solid rookie season for the Stags, finishing with a 4-1 record, and a 2.73 ERA. He earned his first collegiate victory, with a five-inning relief stint at Central Connecticut State, giving up no runs on three hits, and recording four strikeouts. Against Hartford, he pitched three and a third innings, scattering three runs (one earned), on three hits, and three walks. Against Connecticut, he no-hit the Huskies for four innings in a 4-3 win, on April 20. He tied a career-high for strikeouts with four against UConn. hitters, and allowed only one walk on the afternoon.
These wood bat leagues are sanctioned by the NCAA and MLB, after features some of the top players from schools from all across the country.
For more information on the leagues the four Fairfield baseball players are playing in, by checking out the league's websites.
League Websites: ACBL-Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League (http://www.acbl-online.com) NECBL-New England Collegiate Baseball League (http://www.necbl.com)Doug Anderson, Jersey Pilots (ACBL) Tom Arpino, Metro NY Cadets (ACBL) Tim Dugan, Berkshire Dukes (NECBL) Ed Kamintzky, Metro NY Cadets (ACBL)
