FEATURE: Eagles in the Summer Leagues – Cal Ripken Collegiate League
7/27/2022 2:30:00 PM | Baseball
Seven-part feature catches up with GS baseball players on summer league teams
STATESBORO – 18 Georgia Southern baseball players have kept busy after the conclusion of the baseball season by playing in various summer baseball leagues around the country. Over the course of the coming week, we will be checking in on our players and seeing how they are performing over the summer. For today, we will be looking at outfielder Sam Blancato and infielder Jarrett Jenkins.
The Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League is an amateur summer wooden bat league based in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area. There are seven teams that make up the league that play 36 regular-season games. For the playoffs, the top two seeds earn byes to the semifinals, while the third seed plays the sixth seed and the fourth seed plays the fifth seed. Winners of the first round go on to the semifinals, and the winners of the semifinals play in a three game series.
Both Blancato and Jenkins play for the DC Grays located in Washington DC. The DC Grays finished their season at sixth in the CPCBL with a 15-21 record and lost their first round game against the Gaithersburg Giants.
SAM BLANCATO
Blancato finished the season with a .270 batting average, which included 29 hits, six doubles, a triple, three homers, 28 runs scored and 16 RBI. Blancato also had 26 walks on the season, leading to a .414 on-base percentage and a .422 slugging percentage for 0.836 OPS to finish his season. One of Blancato's top performances with the Grays was during a July 10 6-1 win against the Bethesda Big Train, where he went 2-for-4 with two home runs and three RBI on the night.
JARRETT JENKINS
Jenkins finished the season with a .222 batting average with 16 hits, two doubles, a triple, a home run, 14 runs and nine RBI. Jenkins also had 16 walks on the season to finish with a .371 on-base percentage and a .329 slugging percentage for 0.700 OPS to finish the season. One of his best performances with the Gray was his first game with the team, a 10-5 win over the Olney Cropdusters on June 13. Jenkins went 2-for-5 with a walk, two runs scored, a home run and four RBI.
LINKS
Cal Ripken Collegiate League
DC Grays
Blancato Stats
Jenkins Stats
SCHEDULE
July 21 – Appalachian League – Thomas Ross
July 22 – Cape Cod League – Ben Johnson, Noah Ledford, Jaylen Paden
July 25 – Coastal Plain League – Troy Britts, Jarrett Brown, Blake Evans
July 26 – Perfect Game Collegiate League – J.C. Peacher, JP Tighe, Ga'von Wray
July 27 – Ripken Collegiate League – Sam Blancato, Jarrett Jenkins
July 28 – Sun Belt Collegiate League – Phillip Ard, Preston Gunnell, JD Kaiser, Will Robbins
July 29 – Valley League – Corey Dowdell, Brett Zerbel
The Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League is an amateur summer wooden bat league based in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area. There are seven teams that make up the league that play 36 regular-season games. For the playoffs, the top two seeds earn byes to the semifinals, while the third seed plays the sixth seed and the fourth seed plays the fifth seed. Winners of the first round go on to the semifinals, and the winners of the semifinals play in a three game series.
Both Blancato and Jenkins play for the DC Grays located in Washington DC. The DC Grays finished their season at sixth in the CPCBL with a 15-21 record and lost their first round game against the Gaithersburg Giants.
SAM BLANCATO
Blancato finished the season with a .270 batting average, which included 29 hits, six doubles, a triple, three homers, 28 runs scored and 16 RBI. Blancato also had 26 walks on the season, leading to a .414 on-base percentage and a .422 slugging percentage for 0.836 OPS to finish his season. One of Blancato's top performances with the Grays was during a July 10 6-1 win against the Bethesda Big Train, where he went 2-for-4 with two home runs and three RBI on the night.
JARRETT JENKINS
Jenkins finished the season with a .222 batting average with 16 hits, two doubles, a triple, a home run, 14 runs and nine RBI. Jenkins also had 16 walks on the season to finish with a .371 on-base percentage and a .329 slugging percentage for 0.700 OPS to finish the season. One of his best performances with the Gray was his first game with the team, a 10-5 win over the Olney Cropdusters on June 13. Jenkins went 2-for-5 with a walk, two runs scored, a home run and four RBI.
LINKS
Cal Ripken Collegiate League
DC Grays
Blancato Stats
Jenkins Stats
SCHEDULE
July 21 – Appalachian League – Thomas Ross
July 22 – Cape Cod League – Ben Johnson, Noah Ledford, Jaylen Paden
July 25 – Coastal Plain League – Troy Britts, Jarrett Brown, Blake Evans
July 26 – Perfect Game Collegiate League – J.C. Peacher, JP Tighe, Ga'von Wray
July 27 – Ripken Collegiate League – Sam Blancato, Jarrett Jenkins
July 28 – Sun Belt Collegiate League – Phillip Ard, Preston Gunnell, JD Kaiser, Will Robbins
July 29 – Valley League – Corey Dowdell, Brett Zerbel
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