HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C. -- Bradley baseball player Mike Tauchman (Palatine, Ill./William Fremd
H.S.) is the most-recent Brave to earn summer all-star status. Tauchman has been selected to represent the
American squad in the 2012 Coastal Plain League All-Star Game, according to an
announcement from the CPL Monday.
The 2012
Coastal Plain League All-Star Game will be played at Historic Fleming Stadium
in Wilson, N.C. Monday night.
One of
three players to represent the Fayetteville SwampDogs in this year's All-Star
Game, Tauchman enters tonight's game against Petersburg as the league's
second-leading hitter with a .381 batting average and boasts a 12-game hitting
streak. The 6-foot-2 outfielder, who
will be a senior for the Braves in 2012, also leads the CPL with 25 stolen
bases, is third in the league with a .452 on-base percentage and is tied for
third in the league with 43 hits.
Keyed
by Tauchman's hot bat, Fayetteville currently leads the CPL East Division with
an 8-2 record to start the second-half of the league season.
Bradley
teammates Max Murphy (Robbinsdale,
Minn./Cooper H.S.) and David Koll
(Lake Elmo, Minn./Stillwater Area H.S.) participated in the Great Leakes
Summer Collegiate League All-Star Game last week. Murphy was 0-for-2 while Koll pitched a
scoreless inning, both for the South team.
In his
last five games, Murphy has gone 9-for-19 (.474) at the plate with two doubles,
two home runs and eight runs batted in. In
his most recent outing, the sophomore Brave went 4-for-4 with a double, a home
run and six RBI. A Freshman All-American
for the Braves in 2012, the 5-foot-11 outfielder has led the Stark County
Terriers to four wins in their last five games and his hot hitting has boosted Murphy's
season batting average to .385, good for sixth in the Great Lakes Summer
Collegiate league.
Among
the other highlights for the Braves on the summer collegiate league circuit:
Bradley
teammates Chris Godinez (Lake Bluff,
Ill./Lake Forest H.S.), Stephen Toma
(Bristol, Ill./Yorkville H.S.) and Graig
Weber (Columbia Heights, Minn./Fridley H.S.) are fighting to stay alive in
the National Baseball Congress 2012 Midwest Regional as the Eldorado Broncos
are currently 1-1 in the double-elimination tournament. Godinez was 1-3 with a walk in the Bronco's
10-2 loss Monday, while Weber pitched in the final inning of the game, allowing
2 unearned runs and striking out one.
El
Dorado is one of three Jayhawk League teams participating in the 12-team
Midwest Regional, a qualifier for the NBC World
Series to be played later this summer at Wichita's Lawrence-Dumont Stadium. After splitting its first two games in the
regional, three consecutive wins would put El Dorado into the championship
game.
Steve Adkins (Elmhurst, Ill./York H.S.) – Adkins earned his fourth victory for the Chillicothe Mudcats
this past week in a 21-3 win against the Nevada Griffins. The junior right-handed pitcher scattered six
hits and three runs over 6.0 innings while striking out three. Adkins has yet to allow more than three earned
runs in any of his seven starts this season.
Isaac Smith (Richmond, Ky./Madison Central
H.S.) – Smith continued his hot hitting for the
Chillicothe Mudcats this past week going 9-for-19 (.474) for the second
consecutive week, while adding three
runs batted in, three stolen bases and nine runs scored.
