Conestoga Valley Baseball: Bucks in College News

TWO FORMER BUCKSKINS START THEIR SECOND SEASON TODAY IN THE NJCAA REGIONALS. JOSH MILLER THE STARTING SECOND BASEMAN FOR DELAWARE TECH, THE NUMBER ONE SEED IN REGION 19 FINISHED THE REGULAR SEASON WITH A .295 AVERAGE, WITH TWO HOME RUNS, SIX DOUBLES, AND 20 RBI. MARK ROYER AND CECIL WILL PLAY IN THE REGION 20 TOURNAMENT. ON THE YEAR MARK IS 4-1 WITH A 2.65 ERA IN 37 AND 1/3 INNINGS PITCHED. HE HAS 38 STRIKEOUTS AND 23 WALKS.

ADAM RANCK AND JON SHENK WERE NAMED TO THE MAC SECOND TEAM ALL CONFERENCE TEAM. RANCK FINISHED THE YEAR HITTING .344 WITH AN OB% OF .420. SHENK HIT .291 WITH 18 RUNS, SIX DOUBLES AND 20 RBI. ZACH ADAMS HAD A REAL SOLID FRESHMAN YEAR FOR MESSIAH. HE FINISHED WITH A 4.57 ERA IN 15 APPERANCES. HE WON ONE AND LOST ONE WHILE STRIKING OUT 14 AND ONLY WALKING 7 IN 21 AND 2/3 INNINGS.

JOE RUSSO AND FORDHAM ARE STILL IN CONTECTION FOR THE FINAL PLAYOFF SPOT IN THE A-10 TOURNAMENT. WITH A WEEK LEFT AND SIX CONFERENCE GAME REMAINING THE RAMS PLAY AT HOME AGAINST RICHMOND AND TEMPLE. THE RAMS ARE ONE GAME BEHING UMASS AND ONLY THREE BACK OF CHARLOTTE FOR FOURTH.

GREG DISSINGER AND THE YOUNGSTOWN STATE PENGUINS ARE TWO GAMES BACK WITH FOUR CONFERENCE GAMES TO PLAY. THEY PLAY TODAY AGAINST WRIGHT STATE AND TOMORROW AGAINST VALPARAISO THE TEAM THEY TRAIL.

JOE RUSSO GOT TWO STARTS THIS PAST WEEK, ONE AGAINST RUTGERS THE OTHER AGAINST COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. HE TOOK FULL ADVANTAGE OF THOSE OPPORTUNITIES GOING 2-4 IN EACH GAME WITH A RUN SCORED. ON THE YEAR RUSSO IS HITTING .333 IN SEVEN GAMES, FIVE STARTS.

THE TRIO AT MESSIAH IS GETTING READY FOR THE PLAYOFF RUN. THE EAGLES AREN'T WINNING AS MUCH AS THEY WOULD LIKE THIS YEAR BUT STILL HAVE A CHANCE TO MAKE THE CONFERENCE PLAYOFFS. SITTING IN FOURTH THEY ARE ONE GAME UP ON ALBRIGHT FOR THE FINAL SPOT. THEY HAVE FIVE GAMES LEFT INCLUDING THREE CONFERENCE GAMES AGAINST THIRD PLACE WIDNER. A GOOD SHOWING COULD MOVE THEM INTO THIRD PLACE.  ADAM RANCK WENT 6-28  WITH 5 RUNS AND 5 RBI, JON SHENK WENT 9-26 WITH 3 RUNS AND 5 RBI OVER THE PAST TWO WEEKS. ZACH ADAMS ALSO IS BACK TO HIS OLD SELF. HE PITCHED 6 AND 1/3 INNINGS OF RELIEF GIVING UP FOUR HITS AND ONE UNEARNED RUN.

MARK ROYER CONTINUES TO HAVE A STRONG FRESHMAN YEAR FOR CECIL. ON THE SEASON ROYER IS 2-1 WITH 26 STRIKEOUTS IN 24 AND 1/3 INNINGS PITCHED. HE HAS ONLY GIVEN UP SIX EARNED RUNS TO GIVE HIM AN ERA OF 2.21.

JOSH MILLER DIDN'T PLAY A LOT HIS FRESHMAN YEAR AT DELAWARE TECH BUT THIS YEAR IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT STORY. OVER THE PAST WEEK JOSH WENT 5-10, WITH A DOUBLE, HOME RUN, AND THREE RBI. THIS BRINGS HIS OVERALL NUMBERS TO .372 AVERAGE WITH 4 DOUBLES, 12 RBI, AND 2 HOME RUNS. HIS PLAY HAS HELPED DELAWARE TECH TO A 12-9 START.

 ADAM RANCK MADE HIS TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO THE FIELD LAST WEEKEND AGAINST LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE. IN HIS FIRST GAME BACK RANCK WENT 3-5 WITH A RUN SCORED. ON THE WEEK HE WENT 7-18 WITH 3 RUNS SCORED AND 2 RBI. JOHN SHENK WENT 2-3 IN THE FINAL GAME OF THE LVC SERIES WITH AN RBI. MESSIAH HAS A TOUGH WEEK GETTING SWEPT BY LVC, BUT GOT A BIG WIN AGAINST THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY TUESDAY 5-4.

 GREG DISSINGER WENT 3-4 WITH AN RBI IN YOUNGSTOWN STATE'S 6-1 WIN OVER BUTLER. ERIC HOLLINGER WENT 2-5 WITH 2 RUNS SCORED IN LBC'S SPLIT WITH VALLEY FORGE. AND FINALLY MARK ROYER PICKED UP ANOTHER WIN ON THE SEASON GOING SEVEN STRONG INNINGS STRIKING OUT 12 IN CECIL'S WIN OVER PRINCE GEORGE'S COMMUNITY COLLEGE.

ERIC HOLLINGER'S RETURN TO COLLEGE BALL HAS BEEN A SUCCESS. SO FAR THIS YEAR HE IS HITTING .300 WITH 3 DOUBLES AND FOUR RUNS SCORED. IN A RECENT GAME AGAINST PHILADELPHIA BIBLICAL HE WAS 2-2 WITH TWO DOUBLES AND THREE RUNS SCORED HELPING LBC TO A 10-0 WIN.

JON SHENK WENT 7-25 WITH 5 RUNS AND 4 RBI ON MESSIAH'S FLORIDA TRIP THAT SAW THEM GO 2-4-1. MESSIAH ALSO SPLIT A PAIR IN THE CONFERENCE OPENER AGAINST E'TOWN COLLEGE OVER THE WEEKEND.

JOSH MILLER IS ALSO A BIG HELP FOR DELAWARE TECH THIS SPRING. JOSH HAS HELPED DEL TECH OFF TO AN 8-6 START. HE IS HITTING .355 GOING 11-33 WITH THREE DOUBLES, NINE RBIS AND A HOME RUN.

MARK ROYER IMPROVED TO 2-0 ON THE YEAR GOING 5 AND A THIRD INNINGS VS FREDERICK. THIS LOWERED HIS ERA ON THE SEASON TO 0.58.

ON A SOMBER NOTE, STAR THIRD BASEMAN AND LEADING HITTER FOR MESSIAH ADAM RANCK WAS HIT IN THE FACE WITH A PITCH IN THE TEAM'S SECOND GAME OF THEIR FLORIDA TRIP. HE SUFFERED A CONCUSSION BUT THANKFULLY PARAMEDICS WERE ON THE SITE TO ATTEND TO ADAM. HE RETURNED TO THE TEAM LATER THAT DAY BUT HAS NOT PLAYED SINCE. WE ALL WISH ADAM OUR BEST AND GOOD LUCK IN A SPEEDY RECOVERY.

ADAM RANCK WENT 3 FOR 5 WITH TWO RUNS SCORED AND JON SHENK WENT 2 FOR 6 WITH AN RBI TO HELP MESSIAH TO A DOUBLE HEADER SWEEP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY. ZACH ADAMS PITCHED TWO INNING OF RELIEF IN THE FIRST GAME HAVING HIS ROUGHEST OUTING TO DATE ALLOWING FIVE HITS AND TWO RUNS.

MARK ROYER PICKED UP HIS FIRST COLLEGE WIN AS CECIL COLLEGE DEFEATED SUSSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE 10-0. ROYER STRUCKOUT FIVE AND ALLOWED ZERO EARNED RUNS OVER THREE INNING. ON THE YEAR MARK 13 STRIKEOUTS IN EIGHT INNINGS INCLUDING STRIKING OUT THE SIDE EARNING HIS FIRST COLLEGE SAVE AGAINST MERCER COUNTY COLLEGE.

ERIC HOLLINGER HELPED LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE TO A 7-7 TIE DUE TO DARKNESS MONDAY AFTERNOON. HOLLINGER WAS 1-4 WITH A DOUBLE AND PITCHED THREE INNING OF RELIEF.

MESSIAH LOST A PAIR OF GAMES TO BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE SATURDAY BOTH BY THE SAME SCORE OF 8-9. THIS DROPS THEIR OVERALL RECORD TO 2-4 ON THE YOUNG SEASON.  DESPITE THE LOSES ALL THE FORMER BUCKS WERE BIG CONTRIBUTORS IN THE GAMES. IN GAME ONE ADAM RANCK WENT 4 FOR 5 WITH 3 RUNS AND AND RBI. JON SHENK  WAS 2 FOR 4 WITH A RUN, RBI, AND A DOUBLE. ZACH ADAMS CAME ON IN RELIEF IN THE FIFTH INNING MESSIAH TRAILING 8-6. ADAMS PITCHED THREE SHUTOUT INNINGS ALLOWING MESSIAH TO TIE THE GAME AT 8,  BUT IN THE BOTTOM OF THE EIGHTH HE GAVE UP A LEADOFF DOUBLE THEN STRUCK THE NEXT BATTER OUT. UNFORTUNATELY THE NEXT BATTER SINGLED TO BRING IN THE WINNING RUN. ITS ADAMS FIRST LOSS OF THE YEAR. SO FAR HE HAS PITCHED SIX INNINGS ALL IN RELIEVE AND GIVEN UP ONLY ONE EARNED RUN.

IN GAME TWO RANCK WAS 1 FOR 4 WITH TWO RUNS SCORED AND SHENK WAS 1 FOR 5. SO FAR THIS SEASON THEY ARE THE TOP TWO HITTERS ON THE TEAM SHENK LEADING THE TEAM WITH A .450 AVG AND RANCK WITH A .412 AVG.

JOE RUSSO WAS 1 FOR 4 FORDAMS 6-2 LOSS TO VIRGINIA FRIDAY. ON THE WEEKEND FORHAM LOST ALL FOUR GAMES AT VIRGINIA, TWO TO THE CAVALIERS AND TWO MORE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE.

AS BRIEF AS THE COLLEGE SEASON HAS BEEN SO FAR, THERE ARE MANY FORMER BUCKSKINS ALLREADY MAKING THEIR MARK. AT MESSIAH COLLEGE, WHICH HOSTS THREE FORMER CV PLAYERS, JON SHENK, ADAM RANCK, AND ZACH ADAMS, THEY ARE NOW 2-2 AFTER SWEEPING RANDOLPH MACON SATURDAY. IN GAME ONE, SHENK WAS 2 FOR 3 WITH AN RBI AND A RUN SCORED. SO FAR THIS SEASON SHENK IS LEADING THE TEAM IN HITTING AT A .545 CLIP. HE ALSO LEADS IN RUNS SCORED WITH 4 AND OB% OF 615. ALSO IN GAME ONE FRESHMAN ZACH ADAMS PICKED UP HIS FIRST CAREER COLLEGE WIN. ADAMS ENTERED THE GAME IN THE SEVENTH WITH ONE OUT AND A RUNNER ON FIRST,  AND THE SCORE TIED AT 3. HE GOT THE NEXT TWO BATTERS TO GROUND OUT AND FLY OUT GIVING MESSIAH A CHANCE TO WIN IN EXTRA INNINGS.  IN THE TOP OF THE EIGHTH THEY GOT THE GO AHEAD RUN AND ADAMS HAD A 1-2-3 INNING IN THE BOTTOM HALF TO GET THE WIN. ON THE YEAR ADAMS HAS PITCHED TWO AND TWO THIRDS INNINGS GIVING UP ZERO EARNED RUNS AND STRIKING OUT TWO.

GREG DISSINGER HAS MADE A SMOOTH TRANSITION TO THE DIVISION 1 LEVEL AT YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY. GREG IS HITTING CLEANUP FOR THE PENGUINS AND HAS STARTED BOTH OF THEIR GAMES SO FAR THIS SEASON. IN THOSE GAMES GREG WENT A COMBINED 1-8 WITH AN RBI AGAINST THE 14TH RANKED GEORGIA BULLDOGS. DISSINGER AND THE PENGUINS WILL FINISH UP THEIR WEEKEND SERIES AGAINST THE BULLDOGS TODAY AT 2.

JOE RUSSO WENT 2-6 WITH 3 RBI AND A RUN SCORED IN FORDHAM'S WILD 18-16 WIN SUNDAY AT FLORIDA ATLANTIC. ON THE YEAR RUSSO IS 2-7 AND FORDHAM IS 1 AND 2.YOU CAN FOLLOW THAT GAME AND ALL THE FORMER BUCKS BY GOING TO THE ALUMNI SECTION OF OUR WEBSITE AND CLICKING ON THE LINK TO THEIR SCHOOL.

WE WISH ALL THE FORMER BUCKS WHO ARE PLAYING COLLEGE BALL THE BEST OF LUCK THIS YEAR.