New for the 2011-2012 seasons, the America East Daily Word, a collaboration between AmericaEast.com and AExtra, will recap the previous day's games and on goings on our nine campuses and provide links to previews, recaps, features and exclusive coverage.
Playing
against the some of the best competition in the nation is nothing new for the
Stony Brook baseball team. Just ask the six Seawolves who suited up for Cape
Cod League teams last summer. So when the Miami Hurricanes sit in the opposing
dugout on Friday down in South Beach, you can bet intimidation will be no
issue.
That,
according to a piece
in Newsday today, is one reason to not count Stony Brook out despite
playing as the No. 4 seed in the Coral Gables regional matched up against a
program that has made 40 straight NCAA Tournament appearances.
“We
were facing the best players in the nation day in and day out,” Travis
Jankowski told Newsday about his time on the Cape. “When we go to a regional
and we're playing the best 64 teams in college baseball, we kind of know we can
compete with these guys at a high level.”
In
fact, Jeremy
Mills of ESPN considers the Seawolves to be the toughest No. 4 seed and
Miami has one of the most difficult roads to a Super Regional.
Ranked
in the top-10 nationally in three statistical categories as a team, including
second in team batting average, Stony Brook leads the country in winning
percentage and boasts an explosive lineup. Willie Carmona is one of multiple
Stony Brook bats that can erupt at any given moment. Newsday has more
on Carmona.
You
can read more on Stony Brook’s regional appearance, here.
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