June 20, 2007
USA Baseball Summer 2007 Roster
USA Baseball Summer 2007 Schedule
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Santa Clara catcher and 2007 Freshman All-American Tommy Medica has been named to the USA Baseball roster that has gotten its 2007 Summer Tour underway this week. In Tuesday's opener, Medica went 1-for-3 with an RBI and threw out two baserunners on attempted steals to help Team USA to a 9-1 victory over the Oil Can Boyd All-Stars on Tuesday.
Team USA (1-0) used a balance attack to open up its 2007 Summer Tour, beating the `Oil Can' Boyd All-Stars 9-1 on Tuesday evening. Nine Americans had hits, seven players drove in runs and another six scored runs.
Josh Romanski (San Diego) and Roger Kieschnick (Texas Tech) had two hits. Tommy Medica (Santa Clara) threw out two base runners and drove in a run. Four pitchers combined for a two-hit shutout until the ninth, before the All-Stars scored a run and had three, two-out hits.
The Americans scored their first run of the summer in the first after Jordan Danks (Texas) led off the bottom of the first with a walk, stole second, moved to third on a groundout and scored on a Pedro Alvarez (Vanderbilt) sacrifice fly to lead 1-0. The U.S. would not let up, scoring in the first five innings to lead 7-0. Danks scored three runs on the night, reaching base safely three times.
The U.S. went up 3-0 in the second inning thanks to a two-run single by Jordan Henry (.Ole Miss). RBI singles by Medica and Josh Romanski (San Diego) made it 5-0 in the third, before centerfielder John Janco misplayed a flyball to center to give Justin Smoak (South Carolina) a two-run double to make it 7-0.
Eric Surkamp (North Carolina State) went the first 2.0 no-hit innings, striking out three, before Brett Hunter (Pepperdine) pitched two scoreless innings, while Shawn Sanford (1-0) (South Florida) struck out three over the next two perfect innings.
Chris Moore (0-1) went the first three innings, giving up five runs (three earned) on five hits for the loss. Sanford was credited with the win based on score keeper's discretion.
TEAM NOTES This was the team's first game after traveling from around the country on Monday and meeting for the first time on Tuesday morning... a light rain began midway through the game, as the game was delayed by 23 minutes because of lightening (but no rain)... three players continue to be playing for their respective teams in Omaha (Brett Wallace-ASU, Petey Paramore-ASU, Ryan Berry-Rice), while a few others are expected to join the team later this week... Team USA veteran Roger Kieschnick (Texas Tech) had the team's first hit, a single to lead off the second... former Red Sox pitcher Dennis `Oil Can' Boyd's team was a group of former professional players, which included former Expo Delino Deshields... Boyd struck out swinging as a pinch-hitter against UC Riverside's Joe Kelly in the eighth as there were cheers and jeers as a part of the six-pitch at-bat.
