Montgomery College Baseball

 

GO RAPTORS!!!

 

 

   

Any Student / Athlete interested in playing baseball in the 2016-2017 season for the Montgomery College Raptors, please contact Coach Rascher at daniel.rascher@montgomerycollege.edu or call 240-567-7743.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2013 NJCAA Academic All American

 

Name	College	Sports	GPA	Award Type
Justin Sawyer	Montgomery College	M Baseball III	3.87	Superior Academic Achievement
Travis Smith	Montgomery College	M Baseball III	3.86	Superior Academic Achievement
Greg Turlik	Montgomery College	M Baseball III	3.67	Exemplary Academic Achievement

 

 

2013 NJCAA All Region 20

Jameson McGrane

Greg Turlik

Jacob Taylor

Travis Smith

 

 2013 NJCAA All American

Jacob Taylor- 1st Team

Greg Turlik- 3rd Team

 

 

 2013 NJCAA ALL AMERICAN TEAM 

 

Name	College	Yr	Position	Height	Weight	Team	Print
Christopher Anderson	Waubonsee Community College	So	Pitcher			First Team
Frederick Andujar	Holyoke Community College	So	Pitcher			First Team
Brian Barry	Erie Community College	So	Outfield			First Team
Aaron Blanton	Richland College	So	Infield			First   Team
Narciso Crook-Garcia	Gloucester County College	Fr	Outfield			First Team
Zachary Horn	Century College	So	Catcher			First Team
Jacob Jouris	Waubonsee Community College	So	Infield			First Team
Thomas Kain	Gloucester County College	So	Designated Hitter			First Team
Kevin Kramer	St. Cloud Technical & Community College	So	Outfield			First Team
Jeff Singer	Gloucester County College	So	Pitcher			First Team
Jacob Taylor	Montgomery College	So	Infield			First Team
Dean Wilson	Brookdale Community College	So	Infield			First  Team
Greg Turlik	Montgomery College	So	OF			Third Team

 

 

 

 

 

 Congratulations to Jake Taylor for winning the 2013 Gold Glove at the pitching position. This award recognizes 10 individuals who stand out defensively at their respective position. Taylor is the fourth recipient to receive this prestigious award from Montgomery College since 2007.

 

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     2013 ABCA/RAWLINGS NJCAA GOLD GLOVE                               AWARDS                      

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Montgomery College went 3-0 over the weekend to win the Region XX Championship. The Raptors set a school record with 40 wins and advance to the NJCAA World Series for the seventh time in the past eight years.

 Greg Turlik, Jake Taylor, Jameson McGrane, and Sam Stefanelli were selected to the All-Tournament Team.  

The Raptors will travel to Tyler, Texas to represent Region XX in the NJCAA World Series. The Tournament starts May 24 and runs through May 31.

 

 

  

1935-2013

 

Montgomery College baseball coach passes away

Lee, a Montgomery College pitching coach, remembered for contributions to baseball

by James Peters
Staff Writer

 

The Washington, D.C., area lost a baseball icon with the Jan. 19 passing of Montgomery College pitching coach Duck Lee, who spent the better part of the past five decades promoting the sport he loved as an administrator and coach in his adopted country.

“He was a good friend to me,” Raptors baseball coach Dan Rascher said. “He cared about me not as a coach but as a person, and he cared about my family. That’s the thing I really appreciated about him. As far as baseball, (Lee felt) that there was a place out on the field for everybody somewhere. If you had respect for the game ... he welcomed you with open arms.

“He was a security blanket with all the knowledge he possessed. We often discussed things, and he gave me his opinion, and whether I used it or not, he left that up to me. He never said, ‘I told you so.’ He let me coach. That’s one thing I really respect about him.”

Lee, who was 77 at the time of his passing, was born in Manchuria, China, in 1935 and later left the country toward the end of World War II to go to Seoul, Korea, where his family prospered before the city was overrun by North Korean forces in 1950. But it was also in Korea where Lee learned the generosity of the United States military, including the U.S. Marines. He served as a translator for the force in Korea. That generosity caused a deep respect for the United States.

“Duck liked to eat a lot, and I asked him about it and he said, `John, I starved a lot (in Korea),” said Montgomery College assistant head coach John Silk, who gave the eulogy at Lee’s funeral. “He vowed if he ever got out of that situation, he would never go hungry again. He used to tell me stories when he was in Korea as a young boy, such as his love for the USA, especially the Marines and the love for our soldiers. American soldiers gave them food, and he would hide it under his shirt from the communists. He had an affinity for this country. He was so grateful for the U.S. and the soldiers who helped protect him. He was so grateful for the American soldiers who shed their blood so we could be free.”

The North Korean invasion ended Lee’s hopes for playing high school baseball — he was a freshman when the invasion took place — but that didn’t stop the long-time Montgomery College coach from furthering the cause of numerous aspiring ballplayers throughout the years, including serving as the vice president of the Industrial League, a precursor to collegiate circuits such as the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League, that boasted both college and former professional players among its ranks for four decades beginning in the 1960s.

“He brought a Korean team into the Industrial League in the middle or early ’60s, and it lasted about a year. His team didn’t have the sponsorships,” said former Industrial League president Charles Blackburn, who is now the executive director of the National Amateur Baseball Federation. “I recognized that he really did love the game of baseball. I suggested he help run the Industrial Baseball League. Eventually he helped run the league over the years.

“He was a very high integrity guy. Once he decided he was going to do something or serve on a committee, he was one of those guys who would see it right through to the end, (but) he preferred coaching young ballplayers. He ended up helping out with the Montgomery County team. He had a love for that.”

Along the way, Lee, who pitched batting practice up until shortly before his death, served as a Senior Advisor to the Los Angeles Dodgers and as a Supervisor to the Boston Red Sox for Korea, and he was instrumental in arranging games between Korean national and Olympic teams with squads in the Washington Industrial League from 1975-1994. Lee, who spent five years as Gaithersburg Post 295’s pitching coach, also took a team of Industrial League All-Stars to the White House as part of a national Amateur Baseball Month celebration.

“I remember when he went back to Korea to meet his wife to be,” Blackburn said. “His mother and father had selected three possibilities for a wife. He was going over there to interview them. I asked him what he was looking for and he said, `She must love baseball.’ It tickled me. He said, `I’m going to ask very pertinent questions to make sure they understand the game. I’m going to ask one of them what is the hit and run.’

“He was kidding a little bit about it, but he didn’t want to marry anyone who didn’t appreciate baseball.”

Lee’s love of baseball can be seen in his attention to detail — he carried a plastic milk carton to the field everyday filled with tape, string, scissors, glove oil and a lighter for field, glove and other equipment repair — through the many relationships he made with players and coaches alike, including former Montgomery College pitcher and pitching coach Pat Skellchock, whose fondest memory was of watching the then 64-year-old Lee complete a three-up, three-down inning as a pitcher in one of Montgomery College’s fall league games when the squad ran out of pitchers.

“The way he referenced stuff to the pitches, that stuff sticks in my head today that I tell my pitchers at Whitman,” said Skellchock, who is the pitching coach at Walt Whitman. “Duck was always positive. I try to be that way. He was a very fine man, (and) he knew the game. He was a great influence on me as a young pitching coach. He’ll live forever in my baseball world.”

Lee, who was laid to rest in Montgomery College apparel, also spent the last four years on the staff of Jeff Rabberman’s Gaithersburg Giants squad, which played in the Maryland Collegiate Baseball League. Rabberman, whose team is now in the Cal Ripken League, said he hopes to honor Lee during one game this summer, especially after the outpouring of love and respect for Lee that was displayed by his players when informed of Lee’s rapidly failing health just prior to his death.

“He always said the perfect thing at the right time,” Rabberman said. “I’m going to miss the guy. It’s been a hard week-and-a-half. The summer time, it’s really, really going to be hard. He was a man of honor.”

jpeters@gazette.net

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KsHbKKAvBo&feature=youtu.be 

 

Click the link above to view our tribute game to

 

Coach Lee 

 

 

 

 

 Above 2010 Graduate Matt Civetti with his Coach Major League Hall of Famer Gary Carter of Palm Beach Atlantic University.

On the passing of Gary Carter former Gryphon Matt Civetti said: "Coach Carter was a great coach and teacher, always upbeat. Everytime he met with us, even when he was sick, he would always ask if we needed anything. It was never about him."

The Montgomery College Germantown Gryphons express their condolences to the Carter family in this most difficult time. God Bless Gary Carter. The world needs more people like him. Rest in Peace!

 

 

 

 

 2009 NJCAA National Title Runners-Up.

 

 

 

 

 

 NJCAA WORLD SERIES PARTICIPANTS

7 out of last 8 years!!

 

  

  2006-Glens Falls, NY 2007- Tyler, Texas

 

 

  

 

2008-Tyler, Texas

 

 

  

 2009 - Tyler, Texas

 

 

 

2010-Tyler, Texas2012-Tyler, Texas  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

Former Players

 

 Jake Taylor selected as the TraveLynx Student-Athlete of the Week

4/27/2014 1:17:00 PM

 Jake Taylor of the baseball team was selected as the TraveLynx Student-Athlete of the Week, for the period ending April 27.

Taylor batted .500 with five hits, including two doubles and two home runs in a series sweep at home against Palm Beach Atlantic. He drove in eight runs, scored five runs, tallied a team-high 13 total bases for a 1.300 slugging percentage. Taylor went 3-for-5 with a double and two home runs in a 14-3 win over PBA. He is third in the PBC in home runs, fourth in RBI and seventh in doubles.

Taylor was selected as the baseball team's Newcomer of the Year after batting .318 with a team-high 10 home runs, 55 runs batted in, 105 total bases and a .607 slugging percentage. He tied for the team-lead with 18 doubles. Taylor also led the team with nine sacrifice flies, which is a Division II era record

 

 

 

2013 Graduate Jameson McGrane Limestone University

 

 

 

 

2013 Graduate Greg Turlik University of Maryland Eastern Shore

 

 

2012 Graduate Matt Selmer Southeastern University (Florida)

 

2012 Graduate Chris Kyser Florida Southern University

                                                               2012 Shawn Hendon UNC Greensboro

  2011 Graduate Tyler Klitsch Winthrop University

2011 Graduate Kenny Beyer Shepherd University

2011 Graduate Casey Liester Shepherd University

2010 Graduate John Wagner Presbyterian College

2009 Gryphon Jose Sanchez - with the Kansas City Royals in Arizona Rookie Ball. Click above Jose's picture on the animated batter to see him on MLB TV at the Royals training camp working on power jumps with their trainer. Good luck Jose at spring training!!

2010 Graduate Matt Civetti - Palm Beach Atlantic

'09 Eric Berringer
California University of Pennsylvania

'09 John Bergwall RHP Coppin State University

'09 Kevin Story RHP Salisbury University

'09 Ross Sweeney Neumann University

Jensen Pupa-University of Maryland

Tim Park - The College of William and Mary