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Haniger Named WCCBL Player of the Week

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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Cal Poly sophomore-to-be outfielder Mitch Haniger was named West Coast Collegiate Baseball League Player of the Week on Monday after leading the Corvallis Knights to a perfect 6-0 week and into a tie for first place with Bend. Haniger hit .368 (7-for-19) with two home runs and five RBI last week, including a game-tying home run in the bottom of the ninth inning Saturday to force the Knights' contest with Moses ...

Published Jul 28th, by Eric Burdick

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Cal Poly sophomore-to-be outfielder Mitch Haniger was named West Coast Collegiate Baseball League Player of the Week on Monday after leading the Corvallis Knights to a perfect 6-0 week and into a tie for first place with Bend.

Haniger hit .368 (7-for-19) with two home runs and five RBI last week, including a game-tying home run in the bottom of the ninth inning Saturday to force the Knights' contest with Moses Lake into extra innings.

Haniger, the 2010 Big West Conference Freshman Player of the Year, is hitting .301 for the Knights this season with three doubles, three triples, three home runs, 10 stolen bases and 15 RBI.

Haniger hit .326 in his freshman season at Cal Poly with 15 doubles, seven home runs and 46 RBI.

Several other Mustangs are playing in the West Coast Collegiate Baseball League.

Catcher Elliot Stewart, who will be a junior in 2011, is hitting .361 for Walla Walla with seven doubles, a triple, a pair of home runs and 15 RBI.

Also playing for Walla Walla are infielder Denver Chavez (.239, one double, seven RBI, three stolen bases) and pitcher Joey Wagman (pictured above) (2-0, 0.44 ERA, seven walks and 12 strikeouts over 20 2/3 innings).

Meanwhile, infielder Michael Hoo is playing for Cowlitz in the West Coast Baseball League and sports a .229 average with one double, a home run, seven RBI and seven stolen bases. Redshirt Matt Russell is hitting .145 with a double and four RBI.

At Bend, infielder Evan Busby is hitting .200 (14-for-70) with a pair of triples, one home run, seven RBI and four stolen bases.

Infielder Mike Miller is playing for the Peninsula Oilers in the Alaskan Baseball League and is hitting .259 (15-for-58) with a pair of doubles and six RBI with three stolen bases.

Two Mustangs are playing in the Cape Cod League, one of the more prestigious wood bat summer leagues in the country.

Second baseman Matt Jensen and outfielder Bobby Crocker both are on the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox roster.

Jensen, who traveled to Cary, N.C., for the College National Team Trials earlier this month, is hitting .206 (20-for-97) with three doubles and 13 RBI.

Crocker sports a .239 average with three doubles, five RBI and a trio of stolen bases.

Southpaw Kyle Anderson is pitching for the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters in the Northwoods League and sports a 1-2 record and 3.67 ERA, allowing 10 walks and striking out 22 batters in 27 innings so far. He has started five games.

Catcher Jordan Hadlock sports a .261 average for the Nevada Bighorns with two doubles, a pair of home runs and three RBI.

Jeff Johnson and Mason Radeke have pitched for the San Luis Obispo Rattlers this summer.

In 8 2/3 innings, Johnson has alowed nine hits and three runs with no walks and 15 strikeouts. He sports a 1-1 record with one save and a 3.12 ERA.

Radeke, who missed the final 11 weeks of the 2010 season at Cal Poly with an arm injury, has pitched six innings in five games over the past three weeks and did not allow a run.

He earned the win with two innings of work July 24 against the Santa Maria Valley Packers, allowing one hit and striking out three. For the season, Radeke allowed two hits and one walk with eight strikeouts.

Incoming freshman Jimmy Allen is hitting .275 for the Rattlers with two doubles, a triple, six RBI and four stolen bases while catcher Chris Hoo, another incoming freshman, has nine hits in 49 at-bats with three doubles and six RBI.

Shortstop J.J. Thompson is playing for the Seattle Studs this summer while infielder Kyle Wong and outfielder Jono Grayson are playing for the San Diego Mavericks.

Seattle won the Kamloops International Baseball Tournament earlier this month and sports a 36-4 record for first place in the Don McCullough Division of the Horizon Air Summer Series. The Studs have qualified for the NBC Semi-Pro World Series, slated for July 31-Aug. 13 in Wichita, Kansas.

Thompson is hitting .375 (15-for-40) with six doubles, a pair of home runs and 12 RBI through July 22.

Pitcher Nathan Gonzalez, who is coming to Cal Poly by way of Merced College in the fall, has compiled a 5-3 record and 1.67 ERA with the Medicine Hat Mavericks of the Western Major Baseball League in Canada.

Gonzalez has started 10 games with four complete games, including a 4-0 shutout over Edmonton on June 26 in which he allowed three hits and two walks with eight strikeouts. Gonzalez, who pitched at Saint Mary's as a freshmani in 2009, has struck out 70 batters in 70 innings.

Infielder Kevin Corey, a redshirt at Cal Poly last season, is 10-for-66 (.152) at Rockville in the Cal Ripken Senior League with one double, one RBI and one stolen base.

Mustangs not playing baseball this summer include pitchers James Lagorio, Andrew Bruder, Eugene Wright, Frankie Reed, Tommy Erlin, Buster Mueller, Steven Fischback and Mark Laugenour along with position players Corey Dotzler and D.J. Gentile.