Baseball: Stone Bridge Grad Mattingly Switches Schools, Sports

(Apr. 7, 2011) - Stone Bridge Class of 2010 grad Mike Mattingly is giving up football at Lackawanna College to play baseball at Frederick Community College.

Mattingly will enroll in August and expects to play first base for the Cougars, who are coached by Rodney Bennett and currently ranked No. 1 in the country in Division II Junior College baseball at 26-1 for the season. The Cougars went to the Junior College World Series last year finishing in 5th place.

Former Stone Bridge standout Tyler Basso, who was first team All-State and first team Washington Post All-Met, plays third base and piches for Frederick.

Mattingly hit .409 as a junior for the Bulldogs and had a .539 on base percentage, earning all- Liberty district honors in 2009. He had to give up his senior baseball season to have labrum surgery from a injury suffered during football season.

Baseball: Loudoun Valley Grad Southerland Named CAC Hitter of the Week

(Feb. 17, 2011) - Mary Washington freshman leftfielder Beattie Southerland (Purcellville, Va./Loudoun Valley) was selected as the CAC baseball Hitter of the Week for Feb. 14, 2011.

Southerland, a freshman who was the Cedar Run District Player of the Year last spring while at Loudoun Valley, was 5-for-7 (.714 BA) with two doubles, two runs scored, two RBI and a stolen base
as the Eagles opened the season with a doubleheader sweep against Messiah.

Baseball: Dominion Grad McCowat Named Northeast Player to Watch by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper

Springfield, MA (Jan. 27, 2011) - Dominion High School graduate Geoff McCowat, who led American International College's pitching staff in ERA and appearances as a sophomore in 2010, has been tabbed as a Player to Watch in the Northeast this spring by Collegiate Baseball newspaper.

The 5-foot-10 McCowat appeared in 20 games with an 4.02 ERA and 40 strikeouts in just 31.1 innings as a sophomore for AIC, a NCAA Division II school founded in 1885 and an enrollment of 1,800 students. AIC went 7-30 on the year including 4-22 in the Northeast-10.


McCowat went 1-2, earing the decision after tossing two innings of relief in a 6-5 win over Pace on March 25. He earned a save after recording the final two outs in a 7-4 win over Adelphi on April 6. He had 11 scoreless relief appearances, four of which were more than an inning of work.

His freshman year he appeared 12 times out of the bullpen and twice started for the Yellow Jackets, striking out 30 in 32.2 innings pitched.

At Dominion, McCowat made national news when he set three school records and set the Virginia High School League state record for strikeouts in a single game with 20. His cousin, Dan Marchetti, was a pitcher in the Baltimore Orioles farm system.

The Northeast-10 is an association of 16 NCAA Division II colleges and universities located in New England and New York that are committed to supporting balanced academic and athletic opportunities for more than 6,500 student-athletes. Each year, 4,500 of those student-athletes compete in Conference championships in 23 sports, making the NE-10 the largest DII conference in the country. Leading the way in the classroom, on the field and within the community, the Northeast-10 is proud of its comprehensive program and the experience it provides student-athletes.