Finals are over. We're outta here!

Matt Bowman -- Stepping up in the Department

I would like to take this opportunity to recognize Matt Bowman. He was hired this fall by our athletic department to assist with Game Management and Sports Information, putting him on campus full time. In addition, he will be serving as our pitching coach for the second year. Last year, he was on a volunteer basis for baseball, and an intern for the department. As an undergrad, he interned for our department and did such a great job, a position was created for him.

Coach Bowman as a Blue Devil, circa 2009.

Matt played for us back in '09 after two seasons at Corning Community College. With Huggy (Zack Hugg) in the office as our intern this year, the two often chat about the '607' and Corning C.C.

Matt serves as Koz's (the equipment manager) right hand man, taking over for 'Ace' Everett who retired. Matt is responsible for setting up and tearing down for our home events, as well as supervising workers.

He also assists Jerry Reilly in the Sports Information Office. There, Matt does a little of everything from Live Stats, to writing stories and updating the website to compiling career stats.

Matt has a great foundation of fitness knowledge. He has done a great job with the conditioning aspect of our pitchers. He revamped our Pitcher's Handbook and linked up a bunch of solid workout videos on our website. In addition, he initiated our Academic Review Cards to better communicate with professors and has gotten out team involved with Habitat for Humanity.

Community Service of 1

Bobby Frantz stopped by the office during the snow storm. With nothing better to do on a Friday night, Bobby grabbed a shovel and began helping some people he hasn't met, yet.

We got hammered with nearly two feet of snow and had to cancel our Kid's Night Out for the evening.

'Tis the Season

This past week, roughly 20 baseball players took their turns volunteering their time with the Salvation Army to ring bells in front of the local Wal Mart. Coach Greco worked out some times for the players, and they were able to collect money for the Army.




Tyler Shaw does his best to get a shot if himself, Brian
Castonguay and Mike Prentice as they represent the
team for the Salvation Army during their shift on Dec. 5th.

A contingent of players also made it back out to Silver Creek to continue to work on the Habitat for Humanity house on Saturday. The roof has been put on the house, so the team is able to work inside when necessary. Coach Greco also drove the van out to Silver Creek.

A bit of baseball history. The house of former World Series hero, Howard Ehmnke, is on the route to Silver Creek. Ehmke was the surprise starter for Connie Mack's A's in the 1929 World Series, earning the first of his two wins. He would go on to invent the "Tarp", which by SUNYAC rule, is required at all conference fields to this very day.

Questions with Quinn: Trotting with Liam Kelly

Trot Kelly stopped by for a quick interview with Quinn Danahy. Both Trot and Quinn attended Bishop Timon High School together. They were teammates in the rink and on the diamond during their high school athletic careers.

 

Trot also played with fellow freshman Mike Prentice on that American Legion State Championship team.

Trot explains how he got his nickname which is after former big league outfielder Trot Nixon. Nixon would play with the Red Sox from 1996 to 2006. He was a part of the 2004 Red Sox team that brought Boston their first World Series Title since 1918. Nixon would conclude his career with brief stints with the Cleveland Indians in 2007 and the New York Mets in 2008.

 

 

For the famous "Island" question that we ask in every player interview Trot chose his interviewer (Quinn). Timon guys always stick together.

 

The duo wanted to give a shout out to Andy Dlugosz, Matt Sullivan and Tommy Dee.