GILROY—Only one baseball player in Northern California gets the honor of being called the Player of the Year, and that player is Gavilan College pitcher Erik Barron.
Gavilan College sophomore Tyler Oertle’s approach to the 2012 season is validated in a First-Team Coast Conference Pacific Division selection. It is best described, however, by the catcher himself.
Ten Gavilan College baseball players were honored with conference accolades days after the Rams closed out the program’s best season in more than a decade.
Gavilan pitcher Shea Adams said he woke up Monday morning feeling a bit under the weather. After his masterpiece on the bump Monday afternoon, Hartnell College hitters probably wished the right hander had stayed in bed and far, far away from the field.
Twenty games into the year, the Gavilan College baseball team hasn't suffered two consecutive defeats this season – a streak at stake entering action Thursday afternoon.