6

Number of Bearcat baseball players who played their high school ball in the Southern Tier: Jeff Monaco (Seton Catholic Central), Mike Van Gorder (Vestal), Matt Simek (Vestal), Greg Lane (Binghamton), Khalid Afify (Binghamton), Gio Yannuzzi (Binghamton).

8

Seniors on the baseball team. Seven of them are regulars in the starting lineup (Monaco, Simek, Brendon Hitchcock, Pat Haughie, Justin Smucker, Jeff Wertepny and Mike Papili). The eighth was the team’s winningest pitcher last year (Van Gorder).

.545

2005 batting average for freshman center fielder Henry Dunn, the only new starter in the baseball team’s lineup, at South Side High School. The average was fifth highest in Nassau County.

0.93

Current ERA of Van Gorder, tops in the AE.

.455

Current batting average of Hitchcock, second in the AE.

42

The number of consecutive innings junior pitcher Zach Groh went last season without allowing a run. Groh led the nation in ERA for four weeks.