World Yacht Clippers Baseball: CLIPPER NEWS

On Saturday January 7, Coach Mercurio signed a contract with the Kansas City Royals to scout under Northeast Supervisor Keith Connolly. While Coach Merc attends dozens of High School and College games a year, he'll be reporting back to Mr Connolly with information on players here in the Northeast.

Congratulations and Good Luck Coach !

Congratulation to the following members of the Clippers organization and their families !! 

Brett Gemmell has committed to High Point University

Red Dowdell has committed to VMI

Dan Crowe has committed to Elon University

Vinny DeMaria has committed to Iona College

Connor Kwallwasser has committed to Belmont Abbey

Steve Fondu has committed to Furman University

Kurt Picarelli has committed to Eastern Nazeren

Andrew Crean has committed to Rochester U 

Max Bruckner has committed to Iona College

Vincent Froio has committed to Concordia College

Tim McCarthy has committed to Temple University

Erik Martin has committed to ST Rose

Andrew Pucillo has committed to Iona College

Zach Pruess has committed to S New Hampshire U

Mike Gomez has committed to UMBC

Craig Rothenberg has committed to Brandeis U 

Alex Beckett has committed to Franklin Pierce U

Sam Garito has committed to Eastern CT State U

Lucas Owens has committed to UNC-Asheville

Tyler Choate has committed to Mitchell College, CT

Alec Eisenberg has committed to Towson University

Mike Presley has committed to Ithaca College

Tyler Curtis has committed to Triton College  

THE CLIPPERS WISH TO CONGRATULATE COLIN MORAN AND JOEY PANIK FOR BEING NAMED "PERFECT GAME 2011 1ST TEAM ALL-AMERICAN".

IT'S JUST GREAT TO SEE PLAYERS WHOM WE WATCHED AND COACHED WHEN THEY WERE 9 AND 10 YEARS OLD GROW UP AND BEGIN FULFILLING THEIR DREAMS. 2011 WAS A GREAT SEASON FOR MANY OF OUR FORMER PLAYERS BUT THESE TWO HAD EXCEPTIONAL SEASONS.

YOU CAN CLICK ON THE LINK TO SEE ADDITIONAL PLAYERS

The Clippers family would like to congratulate the following alumni who were selected in the 2011 MLB player draft

Curt Casali - selected in the 10th round to the Tigers  2005 team

Joey Maher - selected in the 38th round to the Yankees 2010 team 

Matt Tomshaw - selected in the 43rd round by the Twins 2005, 2006 team 

This was a great honor for these players and it was an honor to have coached and had them wear the WYC uniform

Also a congratulations as a friend of the program and former SOAC player for Coach Imbriale (hope that makes some folks cheery)

Joe Panik - 1st round SF Giants

The CLIPPERS would like to congratulate COLIN MORAN on being named the ACC Player of the Week, The NCBWA Player of the Week and the NCAA National Player of the Week....

Click on the link to read more about Colin and the fantastic week he had and the great freshman season he's having !

We will never forget our good friend Chris Caiazzo who left us on January 9, 2007..... His Dad Chris reamains a big part of our program.    

C8C