June 22, 2004
Baltimore, MD -
Johns Hopkins senior righthander Jeremy Brown (Baltimore, MD/McDonogh) was named ECAC Division III South Pitcher of the Year, and Tim Casale (West Hempstead, NY/Chaminade) was named Player of the Year, the conference announced on Tuesday.
Brown, who this year was named the Centennial Pitcher of the Year for the second straight season and also earned ABCA All-Mid-Atlantic Region First Team honors and was a Third Team all American, led Hopkins with nine wins, a 1.55 earned run average, 81.1 innings pitched, 93 strikeouts and a 1.72 opponents' batting average. He allowed one earned run in seven-inning complete game wins over Ursinus on March 27 and Franklin & Marshall on April 10, and gave up one earned run in consecutive nine-inning complete game victories over McDaniel on April 15 and Catholic on April 21. In the NCAA Regional Brown threw a complete game shutout against Juniata, just the second shutout by Hopkins in NCAA history, and was named to the all-regional team. He finished his career second at Hopkins with 247 strikeouts and tied for seventh with 24 career wins, while his .828 career winning percentage is the sixth highest in JHU history.
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Casale, the Centennial Conference Player of the Year and a Mid-Atlantic All Region Baseball First Team selection, batted .405 with team-highs of 44 runs scored and five triples, while ranking second in hits, 60, stolen bases, 27, and doubles 12. Casale posted 10 multiple-hit games this season, including a 6-for-12 weekend against Franklin & Marshall in the Centennial Conference Tournament. Casale batted leadoff for the Blue Jays this season and hit safely in 34 of the 40 games in which he got an at bat.
Paul Winterling (Glenelg, MD/McDonough), a First Team All-Centennial Conference selection, joined Casale and Brown on the First Team. Winterling led the Blue Jays with ten home runs, 50 runs batted in and 31 stolen bases. Additionally, he ranked third on the team with 39 runs scored, added 42 hits and 12 doubles. Winterling compiled two three-hit games and seven two-hit games in 2004. Winterling currenlty is third with 23 career home runs at Hopkins, and eleventh with 108 runs batted in.
Matt Righter (Clarion, PA/Lawrenceville), was Hopkins' only member of the Second Team. Righter, like Winterling, Brown and Casale, was a Centennial Conference First Team selection. Righter posted a 7-1 record, with a 2.44 earned run average and 56 strikeouts, while holding the opposition to a .211 batting average. Righter's career winning percentage of .833 places his fifth all time on the Hopkins list. Righter was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 21st round of Major League Baseball's First Year Player Draft and is currently playing for their Gulf Coast League team in Lakeland, Fl.
2004 ECAC Division III Souther Baseball All-Stars
Player of the Year - Tim Casale, Johns Hopkins
Pitcher of the Year - Jeremy Brown, Johns Hopkins
First Team
P - Jeremy Brown, Johns Hopkins
P - Sam Mann, Washington & Jefferson
C - Anthony Recker, Alvernia
1B - Mark Roth, Delaware Valley
2B - Tim Casale, Johns Hopkins
3B - Gary Kruger, Franklin & Marshall
SS - Tyler Trutt, Wilkes
OF - Paul Winterling, Johns Hopkins
OF - Mike Coahn, DeSales
OF - Brandon McCabe, Delaware Valley
DH - Jason Alcott, Alvernia
UT - Mike Spotts, Wilkes
Second Team
P - Matt Righter, Johns Hopkins
P - Matt Reppert - DeSales
C - Nolan Nieman - DeSales
1B - Geoff Neese - Dickinson
2B - John Drozdowski - Gwynedd-Mercy
3B - Craig Jenkins - King's
SS - Harold Knebel - King's
OF - Eri Pettit - Alvernia
OF - Matt Raiti - Bethany
OF - Mike Urbanovich - Scranton
DH - Scott Haft - Franklin & Marshall
UT - George LoPresto - Misericordia
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