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Some very good college baseball in Connecticut these days. UConn the premier D1 team in the northeast, Avery Point a consistent JuCo contender, ECSU with multiple D3 national championships. Love to see it
I enjoy walking around the Avery Point campus and have seen some batting cages, etc. where do they play their games?Have to admit I miss to a certain degree the days when UConn baseball always seemed to have Avery Point transfers on the roster. That pipeline seems to have ended a few years ago (it seemed to have coincided pretty much with the retirement of long time Avery Point coach Roger Bidwell), but that's the way things go. The UConn baseball program seems to be in a better place these days, but it is a piece of the recent past that I miss. UConn baseball is certainly getting quality transfers and recruits into the program from various other sources.
Back up the road a bit by EB @ Washington Park.I enjoy walking around the Avery Point campus and have seen some batting cages, etc. where do they play their games?
I enjoy walking around the Avery Point campus and have seen some batting cages, etc. where do they play their games?
Back up the road a bit by EB @ Washington Park.
Have to admit I miss to a certain degree the days when UConn baseball always seemed to have Avery Point transfers on the roster. That pipeline seems to have ended a few years ago (it seemed to have coincided pretty much with the retirement of long time Avery Point coach Roger Bidwell), but that's the way things go. The UConn baseball program seems to be in a better place these days, but it is a piece of the recent past that I miss. UConn baseball is certainly getting quality transfers and recruits into the program from various other sources.
Same family. Son, Morton built the Branford House at Avery Point.Here's something worth mentioning. Avery Point and University of Tampa has something in common. Henry Plant built Tampa Bay Hotel, which is now University of Tampa and he lived in the Mansion at Avery Point.
A number of former Huskies doing well, it's good to see.
-> Eastern left the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth, but Tommy Benincaso, grad student from Norwalk, slammed the door over the final 2 2/3 innings, striking out two in the ninth, slamming his glove down as the final out was recorded on a ground ball. <-
-> Like UConn, Eastern’s team has been bolstered by transfers and grad students. Three of Eastern’s top players, Donahue, Bagdasarian and All-American Luke Broadhurst from Stafford, all began their college careers at UConn. <-