NECC Baseball Team Comes to Lawrence for Middle School Clinic and Scrimmage
Northern Essex Community College’s baseball team—which made it to the World Series of Junior College baseball last spring—will be in Lawrence to conduct a Tuesday, October 3rd clinic for 7th and 8th grade baseball players and play a Friday, October 6th scrimmage against Suffolk University.
Both events are free and open to the public and will be held at South Lawrence East Field, 165 Crawford St., Lawrence.
The clinic will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. and all interested players are encouraged to attend.
Northern Essex’s head coach Kerry Quinlan and his college players will lead fielding, hitting, throwing, and base running drills for 7th and 8th graders. All players should bring their gloves.
The scrimmage will be held on Friday, October 6, beginning at 3:30 p.m.
The two teams are expected to play about 14 innings of baseball, finishing under the lights at 7 or 8 p.m. The college will provide free popcorn.
The scrimmage will be especially interesting because two players on the 2006 team—Waldo Salano of Exeter, NH and Jeison King of Lowell—transferred to Suffolk University this fall.
“We’re very proud of both Waldo and Jeison,” said Susan MacAvoy, NECC’s athletic coordinator. “But we expect to give Suffolk some strong competition and we hope the Greater Lawrence community will come out and cheer us on.”
Last spring, the NECC baseball team made it to the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) World Series, after winning both the NJCAA Region XXI Championship and the Massachusetts Community College Athletic Conference (MCCAC) State Championship.
Pitcher Chris Anderson and outfielder Jeison King were also named to the All New England Team and named All Americans. Anderson was also drafted in the 18th round by the Minnesota Twins.
For more information about either the clinic or the scrimmage, contact Susan MacAvoy, 978 556-3820 or smacavoy@necc.mass.edu or Niurka Aybar, 978 738-7437 or naybar@necc.mass.edu.
With campuses in Haverhill and Lawrence and extension sites in Andover and Methuen, Northern Essex Community College is a state-assisted college, offering over 70 associate degree and certificate programs as well as hundreds of non credit courses designed for personal enrichment and career growth. Close to 13,000 students ranging from recent high school graduates to workers employed locally attend classes days, evenings, and weekends. Northern Essex is the only state college located in the lower Merrimack Valley Region of Massachusetts.