The New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) is best known for its small, intellectual liberal arts schools. Bill Belichick is a Wesleyan guy. George Steinbrenner a Williams grad, although he never forgave the baseball program for cutting his son Hal. Neal Huntington and Ben Cherington were both outstanding players at Amherst, and are now front-office executives. Red Sox VP Sam Kennedy was once Trinity's third baseman. Red Sox assistant GM Jed Hoyer was a second baseman/closer on a Wesleyan team that lost to Jarrod Washburn and Wisconsin-Oshkosh in the Div. III championship game.

So, it is stunning that the Lowell Spinners of the New York-Penn League have four NESCAC players: pitcher Jeremiah Bayer, shortstop Tom Di Benedetto and catcher Sean Killeen from Trinity (which won the Div. III national championship last year); and infielder Drew Dominguez from Wesleyan.

"Lowell must have the highest board scores of any team in the New York-Penn League," one scout said.

-Peter Gammons, ESPN, 6/19/09
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=4273173&type=blogEntry

Thomas DiBenedetto, SS, Lowell Spinners

Sean Killeen, C, Lowell Spinners

Jeremiah Bayer, RHP, Lowell Spinners

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