Baseball | 11/4/2020 9:52:00 AM
ROCHESTER, NY – RIT baseball and head coach Rob Grow are happy to announce RIT Baseball All-Decade Team for the 2010's. In that time the Tigers amassed a 199-194 (50.6 percent) record, including a program-record 33 wins in 2017.
The Tigers competed in the Liberty League Tournament four times, including three straight from 2017-2019, winning its first conference championship in 2017. RIT also competed in the NCAA Div. III Baseball Championship in 2017.
RIT has featured 61 All-Conference selections, including two conference players of the year (Geoff Dornes, Will Gorman) and two conference pitchers of the year (Brian Reed (Rochester, NY/Penfield), Stevie Branche (New Paltz, NY/New Paltz))
In 2017, RIT set single-season program records for most wins (33), highest winning percentage (.785), highest fielding percentage (.973), runs scored (317), hits (432), doubles (105), home runs (23), runs batted in (287), total bases (642), slugging percentage (.452), and walks (191) during the 2017 season. The pitching staff re-wrote the school record book that year with the most strikeouts (319), shutouts (4), strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.22), and lowest WHIP (1.19) in program history.
In recent seasons, Grow has coached several players who have smashed countless single-season and career-records, including two-time CoSIDA/Capital One Academic All-America selection Justin Smith, who is RIT's all-time leader in stolen bases.
Grow recruited and coached Geoff Dornes (2007-10), who was named the Empire 8 Player of the Year three times in four seasons and was a 2017 inductee into the RIT Sports Hall of Fame. Walt Roman, a 2014 graduate, was hit by pitch a school-record 68 times, sixth most in Division III history. Skip Flanagan, a 2015 graduate, signed a professional contract with the Old Orchard Beach Surge for their inaugural season in the North Country Baseball League (NCBL).
RIT Baseball All-Decade Team (2010-20):
1st team:
SP Stevie Branche (New Paltz, NY/New Paltz) ('20)
SP Brian Reed (Rochester, NY/Penfield) ('18)
SP Brandon Cohall ('16)
SP Dan Zeglen ('19)
RP Brett Bouchard (Fairport, NY/Fairport) ('18)
RP Tyler Leichtenberger ('14)
C Mike Myers ('17)
1B Skip Flanagan ('15)
2B Zach Zabel ('16)
3B Walt Roman ('14)
SS Dan Capra ('21)
OF Will Gorman ('17)
OF Justin Smith ('10)
OF Patrick Mylott (Aurora, OH/Western Reserve Academy) ('19)
UTL Dan Zeglen ('19)
DH Brett Kajganich ('17)
2nd Team:
SP Rory Little ('16)
SP Jameson Moran (Geneseo, NY/Geneseo) ('20)
SP Mike Marsillo ('10)
SP Ethan Humbert ('15)
RP Nick Claver (Liverpool, NY/Liverpool) ('18)
RP Kyle Povlock (Fairport, NY/Fairport) ('18)
C Dave Kernan ('11)
1B Phil Sammon ('17)
2B Navada Waterman (Coudersport, PA/Coudersport) ('21)
3B Jason Schulz (Liverpool, NY/Liverpool) ('19)
SS Ed Hughes ('10)
OF Chris Barr ('15)
OF CJ Bolorin ('15)
OF Kreag Bradley ('12)
UTL Ron Canestro ('14)
DH Brian Brazee ('13)
