Monday, June 6, 2011

FOUR MORAVIAN BASEBALL PLAYERS RANKED IN FINAL 2011 NCAA STATISTICS

INDIANAPOLIS, IN --- Four student-athletes from the Moravian College baseball team are ranked in the final NCAA Division III Baseball Statistics Ranking of the 2011 season released this week, and the Greyhounds are ranked in the top 50 in seven team categories.

Junior pitcher Brendan Close (Bethlehem, PA/Freedom HS) is ranked in six categories including being first in the nation in walks allowed per nine innings at 0.56.  Close is tied for ninth in victories with ten, second in earned run average at 1.00, 13th in strikeouts per nine innings at 11.15, ninth in strikeouts with 100 and 14th in hits allowed per nine innings at 5.80.

Junior shortstop Dave Zubia (Bethlehem, PA/Bethlehem Catholic HS) is tied for 51st in hit by pitch per game at 0.35 and tied for 70th after being hit by a pitch 12 times this spring while senior second baseman Jake Schweitzer (Bethlehem, PA/Bethlehem Catholic HS) is tied for 54th in sacrifice flies with five in 2011.

Junior pitcher Kyle Longernecker (Bethlehem, PA/Bethlehem Catholic HS) is tied for 12th with nine saves this spring.

The Greyhounds are 15th in earned run average at 2.97, and Moravian is tied for 38th in stolen bases with 88, 38th in stolen bases per game at 2.20, 12th in walks allowed per nine innings at 2.52, 24h in hits allowed per nine innings at 8.5, 25th in strikeouts per nine innings at 7.8 and tied for 11th in winning percentage at .775.

Moravian completed its 2011 season with a 31-9 overall, and the Greyhounds were 17-1 in Landmark Conference regular season action.