Jones�??
offensive tear leads him to GLSCL Player of the Week honors
Courtesy:
GreatLakesLeague.org Release: 07/28/2009
LaCorte and Karow pitch their way to Pitcher
of the Week accolades
DELAWARE,
Ohio ~ As
Lima continues its race toward the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League
single-season wins record, it has received a number of tremendous individual
performances over the course of the last few weeks. The most recent Loco to
record a superb performance was Dan Jones (Marietta), who earned GLSCL Player of
the Week honors after hitting .636 this past week.
Xenia�??s
John LaCorte (Otterbein) and
Licking County�??s Nick Karow (Furman) also earned Co-Pitcher of the Week accolades for their
efforts.
Jones
led all GLSCL hitters with his .636 batting clip and drove in four runs. In 20
games this season, he has posted a .373 batting average that ranks sixth in the
league. He has also driven in 14 runs and scored nine more.
LaCorte,
meanwhile, turned in one of the leagues most dominating performances in the
Scouts 3-2 win over the Settlers on July 21. In the win, LaCorte tossed a
complete game in which he surrendered just one run on six hits through nine
innings. In eight appearances this summer, he is 4-2 with a 3.72 ERA.
Karow
has solidified himself as one of the leagues top relievers after going 1-0 this
past week with a pair of saves and five strikeouts. In 12 relief appearances,
he is 1-0 with a 0.63 ERA and possesses a league-best eight saves.
The GLSCL is a charter member of the National Alliance
of Summer Collegiate Baseball (www.nacsb.org), which is recognized as the
premier organization in summer collegiate wood bat baseball. The GLSCL is
funded in part by Major League Baseball and is only one of eight summer collegiate
leagues in the country so designated.
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