Minuteman Holiday Baseball Clinic

12/28/09 - 12/29/09

The UMass coaching staff would like to invite you of our Minuteman Holiday General Skills Baseball Clinic. The Clinic will be held December 28th-29th, 2009 and will run from 9:00am-2:30pm. The UMass coaching staff will be directing and instructing the Clinic. This will be a great opportunity for you pick up some valuable pointers work on the general skills of baseball.

Camp Cost: $100.00

Bryan Garrity Throws First Pitch At Fenway Park

The UMass baseball team and head coach Mike Stone were honored by the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday for winning the 2008 Beanpot Championship by throwing out the first pitch of the Red Sox' game vs. the Baltimore Orioles at Fenway Park. Senior catcher and team captain Bryan Garrity was given the honor of throwing the first pitch while his teammates looked on from behind the mound. The Minutemen defeated Boston College, 4-3, on April 15 at Fenway to claim their first Beanpot title since 2000. A week earlier, UMass beat Harvard, 3-0, in the semifinal game in Lynn, Mass. to earn its trip to the finals. The Minutemen have won four Beanpots since they started playing in the tournament in 1996.

The Minutemen defeated the Eagles behind a fantastic pitching performance from Mike Dicato. The junior righty took a no-hitter into the ninth inning before allowing a bloop single with no outs. The Eagles looked to make a comeback in the bottom of the ninth, but Mitchell Eilenberg shut down the Eagle's offense by retiring the final two batters of the game to record the save. Brian Baudinet and Jim Macdonald each finished with two hits for UMass.

DiCato's performance stirred up memories of the last UMass no-hitter, the third in the program's history, thrown by Scott Barnsby at Fenway Park in the 1997 Beanpot vs. Northeastern, 1-0. After starting the game by retiring the first seven batters of the game before allowing a walk, DiCato went on to get out 15 of the next 16 batters.