Cortez stays hot at the plate, Gonzalez homers in first at-bat
TAMPA, June 10, 2019 – With collegiate summer baseball leagues well under way, several members of the USF baseball team are off to nice starts with their respective clubs.
Summer Ball Bulls
Alex Bello – Danbury Westerners – New England Collegiate Baseball League
Bello has played in four games thus far. In the season opener on June 5, he went 1-for-3 with a run, then went 2-for-5 on June 7.
Jake Sullivan – Savannah Bananas – Coastal Plain League
Sullivan has played in seven games in his second stint with the Bananas. He hit in three of his first four games to open the summer. Sullivan went 2-for-4 on June 5 with a RBI and has two runs batted in and three runs.
Julio Cortez – Amsterdam Mohawks – Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League
Cortez has logged seven games and has picked up where he left off with the Bulls. He’s hitting .318 with a home run, two doubles, three RBI and three runs. He had two hits on June 1 with a double and RBI and two hits on June 6 with a double and a run. Cortez hit his first homer of the summer on Sunday and had two RBI.
Dylan Buck – Amsterdam Mohawks – Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League
Buck has played in six games with Amsterdam. He went 1-for-4 with two runs, a triple and two RBI in the season opener on May 31. He had two runs and two RBI on June 3.
Nick Gonzalez – Peninsula Pilots – Coastal Plain League
Gonzalez has seen action in eight games and has six hits with two RBI and six runs. Reminiscent of his first at-bat as a Bull, the infielder cranked a homer in his first at-bat with the Pilots. He went 2-for-3 on Sunday and has either scored or driven in a run in all but two of the games.
Danny Gutcher – Peninsula Pilots – Coastal Plain League
Gutcher has played in five games and has a double and a walk in nine at-bats.
Brandon Schrepf – Peninsula Pilots – Coastal Plain League
Schrepf has played in six games and has four RBI and three runs. He had a hit, a run scored and three RBI in the season opener on May 30. Schrepf has also seen action on the mound, pitching 2.0 innings with two strikeouts.
Riley Hogan – Peninsula Pilots – Coastal Plain League
Hogan has played in seven games through the first week and a half of summer ball. He has two RBI and a run scored.
About USF Baseball
The University of South Florida baseball team is one of the fastest rising programs in the country. The Bulls reached the NCAA Regionals in 2015 for the first time in 13 years and followed that success with a 42-19 record and second NCAA regional trip in three years in 2017. The Bulls continued the success under first-year head coach Billy Mohl in 2018, reaching 36 wins and advancing to the semifinals of the conference tournament for the first time since 2012, while being ranked in multiple polls for the final two months. USF earned its third NCAA Regional berth in the last four seasons and had six all-conference selections in 2018. The team had four players drafted in the 2018 MLB Draft, including the program’s fourth first rounder, Shane McClanahan. Junior third baseman David Villar was taken in the 11th round after tallying 24 doubles and hitting better than .370, being named first team all-conference and an All-American. The USF Baseball program has won five conference titles and the Bulls have made 13 NCAA appearances.
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