Victoria Eagles grad 3B Kobe Morris (Victoria, BC) is bear hugged by 1B Kyle MacDonald (Mississauga, Ont.). They did the same Morris hit a pair of home runs to help the Crowder Roughriders beat Wallace-Dothan 10-7 at the College World Series in Grand Junction, Col.

Canadians in College baseball report for May 29 - June 4, 2017

By Kevin Wall
Canadian Baseball Network
We track the pitching and hitting statistics of 744 players from the CBN master list that are listed on the rosters of 327 schools affiliated with CCCAA, NAIA, NCAA, NJCAA, NWAC and USCAA.

Last week, Monday through Sunday, 21 schools with 31 Canadians played 57 games (11 games had Canadians on both teams). From the mound, five Canadian pitchers made six appearances, two were starts. As a group, they threw 10 innings, striking out 11, earning one save. At the plate, 14 Canadian batters had 120 at bats with 42 hits and six home runs, producing 20 RBIs.

Recently I sent an email to Prof. Andy Andreas to thank him for his amazing online course, “Sabermetrics 101x” which sparked my interest in baseball stats. I shared with Andy the College Wrap and I was a happy when he replied with, “What a cool idea!” and that he thinks the CBN web site “is a nice thing for Canadian ballplayers, their families, friends, and fans”. For anyone interested in learning more about baseball stats or data science I highly recommend Andy’s “Sabermetrics 101x” which is free.

Notable pitching performances
Matt Krutsch had two appearances.
Christian Young had one save.

Notable batting performances
Tristan Pompey had eight hits.
Kobe Morris had two home runs.
Tristan Pompey, Kole Cottam had four RBIs.
Louis Boyd, Tristan Pompey, Zarley Cina had high batting averages with 10 or more at-bats.

Former Toronto Mets OF Tristann Pompey (Toronto, Ont.)

Pitching stats
Player School App GS IP H BB K ER W SV ERA
Braedon Rybak, Northampton CC 1 0 1.1 4 0 1 4 0 0 27.00
Christian Young, Niagara CCC 1 0 3.0 2 0 5 0 0 1 0.00
Matt Krutsch, Cowley CCC 2 1 2.0 3 2 1 4 0 0 18.00
Matt Lloyd, Indiana 1 0 3.2 5 1 2 0 0 0 0.00
Thomas Espig, Yale 1 1 2.2 5 2 2 1 0 0 3.37

Former Okotoks Dawgs Matt Lloyd (Okotoks, Alta.)

Hitting stats
Player School AB H HR BB K R RBI AVG OPS
Bryce Jorgenson, Century 4 1 0 1 0 1 1 .250 .750
Chandler Robertson, Murray State 5 4 0 1 1 1 0 .800 1.833
Gui Gingras, St Johns 8 0 0 0 1 0 0 .000 .000
Kobe Morris, Crowder 9 5 2 0 1 2 2 .556 1.889
Kole Cottam, Kentucky 9 4 1 1 0 3 4 .444 1.455

Kyle Blackwell, Crowder 8 3 1 1 2 1 2 .375 1.250
Kyle MacDonald, Crowder 8 3 0 2 2 3 2 .375 1.000
Liam Whalen, Murray State 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 2.000
Louis Boyd, Arizona 10 5 1 2 1 2 1 .500 1.483
Matt Lloyd, Indiana 13 1 0 1 6 1 0 .077 .297

Former Ontario Terriers Zarley Cina (Kitchener, Ont.)

Player School AB H HR BB K R RBI AVG OPS
Tanner Rempel, Colorado Mesa 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 .000 .000
Tristan Pompey, Kentucky 18 8 1 3 2 5 4 .444 1.246
Tyler Duncan, Crowder 9 2 0 1 2 3 1 .222 .697
Zarley Cina, Niagara CCC 15 5 0 2 0 2 3 .332 .702

For information on the players and schools covered in this report, please visit the 2017 Canadians in College web page.

For engaging accounts of Canadians in college baseball, please visit Matt Betts’ weekly BMOC -- Big Man On Campus.

Comments regarding this report are welcome, please let us know how we can make this report better. Contact Kevin Wall <kwall@rogers.com>

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