Westfield State Athletics

Will Garner receives his NCAA Tournament participation medal from
Westfield athletics director Dick Lenfest during a special halftime ceremony
honoring the baseball team at the Owls' football game on Saturday, Sept. 11.
This past May Westfield played in the NCAA baseball national tournament for 
the second time in three years.
Photo By Tom Moriarty - mortssports.smugmug.com

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PITTSFIELD - Originally brought in as a fill-in, Pittsfield native David Glass has made it a Berkshire County trifecta on the Pittsfield American Defenders roster.

Glass, a junior at Westfield State College, came into Wahconah Park to help the Defenders out because they were three pitchers short to start the NECBL season, but has found himself a home in the Defenders bullpen.

"I would say we're beyond just a short look-see and to fill a temporary roster spot," Defenders manager Carroll Land said before Saturday's home opener against New Bedford. "He's got a chance to make this club."

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Westfield State honored the senior members of the 2009 baseball team
at the college's varsity sports spring banquet. From left to right are: head
coach Ray Arra, Cagney Turner, Steve Sullivan, Josh Perches, Adam Franke,
and Brad King.

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Head coach Ray Arra presents baseball team achievement awards to 
Alex Xiarhos (rookie of the year) and Carl Bettinelli (outstanding contributor) 
at the college's varsity sports spring banquet.

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Box Score

MANSFIELD, Conn. – The seventh-seeded Husson College baseball team scored six runs in the seventh inning on three hits and five Westfield State College errors to wipe out a one-run deficit and record a 10-3 victory in an elimination game of the 2009 NCAA Division III New England Tournament Thursday afternoon at the Eastern Connecticut State Baseball Stadium.

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MANSFIELD, Conn. - James Wood (Windham, NH) hit a game-tying three-run home run with two out in the bottom of the fourth inning to spark the third-seeded and defending national champion Trinity College baseball team to a 6-4 win over sixth-seeded Westfield State College Wednesday afternoon on the opening day of the 2009 NCAA Division III New England regional tournament at the Eastern Connecticut State Baseball Stadium.

A winner of eight of its last nine, Trinity (30-5) advances in the winners’ bracket Thursday at 7:45 p.m. while Westfield (23-16) will play an elimination game Thursday at 1:35 p.m. vs. Husson College (31-13) of Bangor, Maine. Husson, the No. 7 seed, lost to Southern Maine, 5-4, in 10 innings on Wednesday night. If you are unable to make the trip to Mansfield, Conn., you can follow all the action live on the Little East Conference Web site. The tournament championship page will provide full coverage of the New England Region with a link for real-time statistics and video broadcast for each of the games.

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NCAA Regional Team Capsules

NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. – The NCAA Division III Selection Committee has selected theEastern Connecticut Baseball Stadium as the site for the 2009 NCAA Division III Baseball New England Regional Tournament, co-hosted by Eastern Connecticut State University and the Little East Conference between May 13 -17. The five-day, double-elimination tournament is just one of the three eight-team sites in the 54-team tournament field. 

If you are unable to make the trip to Mansfield, Conn., you can follow all the action live on the Little East Conference Web site. The tournament championship page will provide full coverage of the New England Region with a link for real-time statistics and video broadcast for each of the games. The Eastern Connecticut sports information staff will be running live in-game statistics, while Bridgewater Television (BTV9) will be producing each broadcast.


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