BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- Rising senior center fielder Anthony Gaetaniello from the Moravian College baseball team has been named an Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League All-Star for the Wolff Division for the second straight season while playing for the Lehigh Valley Catz, and Gaetaniello is one of seven Greyhounds on ACBL rosters this summer.
Fifth-year senior pitcher Ian Carbone and junior-to-be pitcher Ryan Kahn are also playing with the Lehigh Valley Catz while rising junior pitcher Nicholas Mazzella and sophomores-to-be pitcher Rhett Jacoby and infielder/pitcher Evan Kulig are playing for first-place Allentown Railers and rising junior pitcher Dan Morrin is on the Quakertown Blazers for a second consecutive summer.
The 2016 ACBL All-Star game is slated for Thursday, July 21 with first pitch slated for 7:00 p.m. at Provident Bank Park in Pomona, New York. The game can be heard live at http://mixlr.com/northjerseyeagles/events/acbl-all-star-game/. More information on the league can be found at http://www.acbl-online.com/.
The group helped the Greyhounds to a 22-21 record and a Landmark Conference Semifinal series this past spring before heading to the wooden bat league for the summer.
Gaetaniello, who was on the Landmark All-Conference Second Team this past season, is leading the Catz and ninth in the ACBL with a .330 batting average, and he is second in the league with 29 runs scored in 32 games. Gaetaniello is 36-of-109 on the summer to go with four doubles, three triples, a pair of home runs, 10 RBIs, 13 walks and 15 stolen bases to rank in the top ten of the ACBL.
Kahn, who was named to the Landmark All-Conference First Team, has pitched in 11 games for the Catz with six starts and one complete game. Kahn has posted a 3-2 record with one save, 26 strikeouts and a 3.74 ERA in 33.2 innings of action.
Carbone, who is in his second year with the Catz and was an ACBL All-Star last summer, has seen action in six games for the Catz with six starts. He has a 2-2 record, 23 strikeouts and a 4.80 ERA in 24.1 innings of work.
Morrin, who was also an ACBL All-Star in 2015, has made nine appearances for the Blazers with seven starts and one complete game. He has a 2.46 ERA, a 2-2 record and 32 strikeouts in 33 innings of action this summer.
Jacoby, who was on the Landmark All-Conference First Team this spring, is in his first year in the ACBL and has seven appearances for the Railers with three starts. He has a 1-2 record, a save and 17 strikeouts in 17.1 innings of work.
Kulig has seen action as both an infielder and a pitcher this summer. He is 2-for-11 at the plate for the Railers with one run in five games in the field, and Kulig has made two appearances on the mound with one start. He has six strikeouts and a 4.15 ERA in 4.1 innings.
Mazzella has pitched twice for Allentown with one strikeout in two innings of action.
Gaetaniello is one of two Landmark Conference players to earn ACBL All-Star honors with a player from Susquehanna University earning a spot on the Kaiser Division squad.
The group continues a Moravian connection with the Lehigh Valley Catz over the last 10 years. Junior-to-be Bryan Schoch, Anthony Zaloga '16, Mike Roethke '16, Colin Case '15, Ryan Luke '15 and Matt Hanson '15 have played for the Catz over the last four seasons. Brendan Close '12 and Robert Solano '14 were on the Catz' pitching staff in 2011 while Chris Morrison '10 pitched for the Catz for three summers from 2007 through 2009. Josh Baltz '08 started 23 of 28 games he played for the Catz in the summer of 2006. Jacoby, Kulig and Mazzella join Morrin and Hanson as Greyhounds' who have played for other teams in the ACBL with Hanson playing his first year in the league with the South Jersey Generals.
The teams still have games against each other before the regular season finishes at the end of July. The Catz and the Railers have a doubleheader scheduled at Upper Hackett's Park in Easton on July 25 at 5:00 p.m. The Blazers and the Railers will play a single game on July 28 at 7:00 p.m. at ECTB Stadium in Allentown, and then the squads meet the following night, July 29 at 7:00 p.m. at Memorial Park in Quakertown to finish the regular season. The ACBL has not yet rescheduled a doubleheader between Quakertown and Lehigh Valley that was rained out on July 18.
