UCLA Baseball Sends 19 Players to Summer Leagues
June 14, 2011
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LOS ANGELES - The UCLA baseball program has sent 19 players around the nation to play in the most competitive summer leagues. Five Bruins will compete this summer in Massachusetts in the Cape Cod League, regarded as the nation's premier collegiate summer baseball league.
UCLA will send seven players to the West Coast Collegiate League, four to the Northwoods League, two to the California Collegiate League and one to the Far West League.
In the Cape Cod League, Beau Amaral and Eric Jaffe will play for the Chatham Anglers. Cody Keefer and Zack Weiss will compete for the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox, and Scott Griggs will pitch for the Brewster Whitecaps.
Seven Bruins will compete for three teams in the West Coast Collegiate League. Ryan Deeter, Pat Gallagher and Jeff Gelalich will represent UCLA on the Bellingham Bells. Brenton Allen and Kevin Williams will play for the Walla Walla Sweets, while Pat Valaika and incoming freshman Eric Filia-Snyder will be teammates on the Wenatchee Apple Sox.
Amaral (Chatham) and Williams (Walla Walla) return to their respective teams for the second consecutive summer.
Richard Brehaut and incoming junior college transfer Michael Kerman (from Long Beach City College) will play for the Academy Barons of the California Collegiate League. The Academy Barons play at the Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academy in Compton, Calif., in a summer league that extends from San Luis Obispo, Calif., to as far south as Orange County (Orange, Calif.).
Matt Giovinazzo will play for the Neptune Beach Pearl (Alameda, Calif.,) in the Far West League.
UCLA in 2011 Summer Baseball Leagues