Season One Complete Year Statistics

Click here to view our year end statistics   Another website feature to use is in the bottom right corner of every page, the Site Search box. Type in a player’s name, click Search and every article where he is mentioned will be listed. Give it a try.

And Our Final Website Posting Until Our Next One

As we post the end of the season all-cumulative statistics, we bid farewell to Carney Pirates players and fans. Overall, a very successful and valuable learning curve season was accomplished. Hats off to Coaches Scott Rowland  and Brian Snyder who not only taught a lot of quality baseball and young man development, but also created a successful winning season, and a great, enjoyable environment, while scheduling everyone substantial playing time. If you review the statistics, you will see that no one attended every game.It was known going in that this would be a transitional season - graduations (different school systems), beach weeks (different school systems), college orientations, and the occasional family vacation, created challenges normal college summer teams don’t face. The lack of continuity did sometimes affect our defensive play, but the coaches fought through those challenges and fielded a winning team (18-12, .600) for the season. Another impressive accomplishment gained while still remaining competitive, was the number of workouts and outings each of our pitchers got. Note the number of innings compared to the number of outings and you will realize that Mssrs. Rowland and Snyder did a terrific job of protecting strong young arms, while still providing an excellent challenge with instruction. This is not to be observed too lightly in this age of ultra-competitiveness. Each pitcher now attends college fall ball with a lively arm and a collection of valuable pitching workouts, experiences, tests, and guidance.

But Wait, There’s More…

No thank you’s can begin without at first starting with, of course, Mr. Jack Carney. Mr. Carney’s generosity and thoughtfulness toward helping young men develop into solid citizens is greatly appreciated, as well as his enthusiastic support and empathy for the talented ballplayers. The Carney Pirates just might be around long enough to fulfill Jack’s wish for this year’s Original Pirates to one day legally celebrate their baseball successes with him, downing  ‘a cold one’.   Thanks, so much, Mr. Carney.

Next year when we go big time, no doubt we’ll have podcasts hooked up to everyone’s fifth generation iPhones and of course delivering that podcast will be our own, Tom McCormick, otherwise known all season long by Pirate fans as, The Voice. Great work Tom, thanks for your efforts on all things broadcast and please come back next year.

Julie Carmony, our Royal Imperial Potentate of all of our business challenges, is to be lauded for her persistent, competent, and effective efforts in getting The Carney Pirates organization off the ground and viable in three separate organizations (not all of them organized). A lesser person would be waiting trial for homicide, but Julie hung in there amongst the alligators and armpits (family website) and worked administrative miracles.

Special thanks to our webmeister grandmaster, Eddie Sutton of JustPixels.com. We have received numerous compliments from players, fans, and sophisticated baseball followers, scouts, and coaches about the timely, informative and easy to navigate Carney Pirates website. Don’t forget to keep Eddie in mind when it comes to referring website business of all kinds - he certainly deserves it and will not let you down.

A big thank you goes out to our young upstart of a sports executive, Ryan Fischer, who if nothing else, between having his chops busted by two of the best, Snyder and Carneal, will be prepared to handle anything USC throws at him. Ryan is a quick learn, who is a pleasure to work with and has a terrific attitude toward being a team player.

And last, but certainly not least, a warm, heartfelt thank you to Sherri McMenamin. Sherri, does the scorebook, does the stats, does the concession purchases, cash management and set up, is involved in virtually all of the ‘grunt work’ required in running a CGL/ODL/Tournament team and holds up remarkably well. Way to go Sherri, now go spread the tarps on the field, so we’ll be ready for Carney Pirates, season two - The SEQUEL.

We will post any significant news about The Carney Pirates or its players during the fall and winter months, while we actively build the full season team for next year - take a glance at the site every month or so and keep us updated of newsworthy activities. Springtime will have us out to the campus ballparks and the reporting pace will gain speed. Best wishes to all. Players, may your performance produce results worthy of your talent, dedication, and commitment.

Bill McMenamin and Doug Carneal