Tag: Pioneer Collegiate Baseball League

Pioneer Collegiate Baseball League playoffs began today with the Wild Card Game in Fort Dodge. The host Gypsum Miners faced Peak Prospects, based in Granger (Iowa), who played a half-season schedule in the league. Although Peak had taken three of four games during the regular season the day belonged to Fort Dodge who took an…

Bancroft Bandits are having a record-setting summer season in the Pioneer Collegiate Baseball League. Success at this level often leads to players turning professional and that has happened five times now in Bancroft. Pitchers Hunter Robichaux, a senior from Bucknell University, and Ray Diaz of Marymount California University both inked their first professional deals today.…

WHO: Team JUCO vs Team University WHAT: 2019 Pioneer Collegiate Baseball League All-Star Game WHEN: July 21, 2019 WHERE: Merchants Park, Carroll, Iowa Schedule noon Scouts luncheon 1:30 PM Skills Showcase 3:30 PM Home Run Derby 4:15 PM All-Star Game Team JUCO Pitchers Kyle Amendt, Peak Prospects – Southeaster CC Austin Atwood, Bancroft – Alcorn State Jesse Bloom,…

One day after the Bancroft Bandits announced that two members of their pitching staff had turned pro the team announced another promotion. Nico Mayoral is the third Bandit pitcher to sign a professional contract with the High Desert Yardbirds of the Pecos League. Mayoral spent the past two years at Point University (NAIA) in Georgia. Another…

League leading Bancroft Bandits (14-3) will be two pitchers short when they resume action this week after a pair signed professional contracts. Right hander Nile Ball will be making the jump from collegiate summer ball in northern Iowa to Sioux City Explorers of the American Association of Independent Baseball. While its just a 150-mile trip…

Season two of the Pioneer Collegiate Baseball League will come to a conclusion this week when the playoffs will decide a champion. Albert Lea Lakers (29-5) captured the regular season pennant and top seed for the playoffs which features all five teams. The record-setting Lakers will face fourth-seeded Bancroft Bandits (12-20) in a best-of three…