George Washington University Athletics
GW Baseball Players Set for Summer League Play
6/23/2015 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
WASHINGTON â€" Ten members of the George Washington baseball team will enjoy the national pastime on diamonds around the country this summer, competing in a number of summer collegiate leagues.
Rising junior Joey Bartosic represents the most prestigious summer placement among his Colonial teammates, as he is playing for the Danbury Westerners of the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL).
The NECBL is a 12-team collegiate summer league in New England that plays an eight-week, 44-game schedule. It is considered one of the top collegiate leagues in the country.
Bartosic is currently batting .273 with six runs and six stolen bases across 11 games.
Rising senior Luke Olson will also compete in the NECBL when he joins the Plymouth Pilgrims later this month.
The 2015 NCAA saves leader and an American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) All-East Region selection, Eddie Muhl traveled the furthest for his summer league placement. The rising junior is competing for the Anchorage Glacier Pilots in the Alaska Baseball League. As of June 23, he has appeared in two games, pitching 1.1 scoreless innings without allowing an earned run.
Rising senior Randy Dalrymple will stay local as a member of the Vienna River Dogs in the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League starting in July.
Rising junior Andrew Selby has joined the Woodstock River Bandits in the Valley League and ranks third on his squad with a .313 batting average in addition to two doubles, one triple, six RBIs and seven walks.
Selby will go head-to-head with GW director of baseball operations Jim McKew, who is serving as associate head coach and assistant general manager of the Valley League's expansion Charlottesville Tom Sox.
Rising sophomores Chance Malek and Mark Osis are also playing this summer. Malek is a member of the South Jersey Giants of the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League while Osis plays for the Westhampton Aviators in the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League.
Osis is batting .306 with six doubles and nine RBIs across 16 games.
Elsewhere, rising junior Colin Gibbons-Fly is playing for the Concord Weavers of the Southern Collegiate Baseball League. He is batting .280 with four RBIs, two doubles and 11 runs through 16 games.
Rounding out GW's summer league participants are rising senior Matthieu Robert (New Orleans Boosters, All-American Amateur Baseball Association) and rising junior Gabe Scott (Queen City Legends, Ohio Valley Summer Collegiate Baseball League).
