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Herkimer Baseball 2010 Season Preview; Ranked #4 In NJCAA Pre-Season PollHerkimer Baseball begins the 2010 season ranked #4 in the NJCAA preseason baseball poll. Herkimer just missed a third trip to the NJCAA DIII World Series in 2009, losing in the championship round of the Regional Final Four. Herkimer is determined to finish the run this year and return 10 key players from a team that finished 33-10. (more) |
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Herkimer Baseball Ranked #8 In Collegiate Baseball Pre-Season RankingsThe Herkimer County Community College men’s baseball team is currently ranked #8 nationally in the National Junior College Athletic Association’s Division III by Collegiate Baseball in their first pre-season baseball poll, released December 21. (more) |
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Herkimer Baseball Players Team-Up With RCIL For Wonderland Of Lights EventHerkimer baseball went to the Masonic Care Community in Utica to volunteer their time working the gates for the Wonderland of Lights on November 23rd. (more) |
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Herkimer Baseball’s Lee Foxton to Join NCAA DII Slippery Rock UniversityLee Foxton has signed a baseball scholarship to join Head Coach Jeffrey Messer at Slippery Rock University next season. (more) |
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Abounader Signs with DII Tusculum College in TennesseeHerkimer CCC right handed pitcher TJ Abounader has signed on to play with Tusculum College in Tennessee for the 2011 season. (more) |
REGION III CHAMPIONSHIPS
2006, 2007
Herkimer baseball began a new era under Head Coach Jason Rathbun in 2005. Under Rathbun, Herkimer baseball has climbed to the top of NJCAA baseball with their work in the classroom and on the field. Herkimer has reached the Regional Final Four every year under Rathbun and has collected two Regional Championships, 3 Mountain Valley Conference Championships, 2 Academic All-American Team Honors and 2 World Series appearances. In 2006 and 2008, Herkimer was the only DIII Junior College baseball team in the nation to achieve the status of Academic All American Honors with a team GPA over 3.00. Under Rathbun, Herkimer has carried the best winning percentage in Region III baseball and has been nationally ranked for the past five years.
Herkimer baseball offers you the opportunity to begin your college education and play baseball in a program that promises maximum exposure to four-year universities, professional scouts, and an immediate chance to play your freshman year. Over 30 players have moved on to four year schools to continue their career as a student-athlete and over 25 players have received baseball scholarships, with one player currently playing professional baseball.
The program is a three-part season set up to keep our student athletes competing at the top level in the classroom and on the field. Herkimer baseball begins the day you walk on campus. Fall baseball includes preseason tournaments against outside competition, intra-squad scrimmages, daily practice fundamentals, plyometric conditioning, mental preparation, and our Blood Bowl Series. Fall baseball is an important part of evaluation for the spring season. Winter is the off season where the program focuses on weight training. The winter is important for growth and strength conditioning for the spring season and utilizes our strength and conditioning coach for maximum strength training.
Our annual spring trip in March kicks off our spring season of competition. Spring season is a 40 game scheduled season against Mountain Valley Conference teams, NJCAA Region III teams and competition from outside the region against top Division I and II teams. The Region III record determines seeding for tournament play, with the chance to advance to the NJCAA Division III World Series.
BASEBALL FIELD
Herkimer holds one of the top on-campus baseball facilities in the state of New York. The completely fenced in ballpark has dimensions of 330 feet down the left field line, 320 feet down the right field line, and 400 feet to center field. The field has a southern ball park feel to it with grassed in baselines from home plate to first base and from home plate to third base. The baseball facility has home and away dugouts with turfed flooring, open faced dugouts, and a small fence in front of the dugout getting the players closer to the action on the field. The baseball facility also features home and away bullpens, an outdoor batting cage, scoreboard, and an infield tarp to keep the field ready to play in case of bad weather. The sound of music playing from the press box gets the students out of their dorm rooms, to the field, which creates one of the best home field atmospheres in the country.
