Baseball

June 1, 2007

WATERBURY, Conn.-Post University baseball rising senior Nick Mangini, will spend the summer playing for the Stamford Robbins of the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League (ACBL), an NCAA and Major League Baseball sanctioned wood bat league.

Mangini and the rest of the Robbins begin the season, on Wednesday, June 6, as they travel to Delano-Hitch Stadium in Newburgh, N.Y. to take on the New York Generals. First pitch is slated for 7 p.m.

This will be the righty's third summer in the ACBL, as he spent the previous two summers playing for the Long Island Collegians and the Long Island Stars. In his junior season for the Eagles, which recently wrapped up, he pitched both in the starting rotation and out of the bullpen.

In the final game of the regular season, he tossed seven innings of two-run ball, giving up just one earned run, while striking out a season-high five batters, in a 12-6 win over Wilmington College. In the 2007 season, he made 11 appearances, while taking the ball for five starts. He was third on the team in strikeouts with 20 and second on the team with 12 strikeouts looking.

Post finished the regular season with an 18-20 overall record and an 8-8 mark in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC).

Despite winning four of their last five games, the Eagles fell one-game shy of reaching the CACC Championships, and finished in a tie for fifth place, improving on their mark from a year ago.

In ACBL action last year, Mangini was 2-2 in six appearances for the Long Island Stars. He logged 21.2 innings on the mound and struck out 10 batters. In 2005, for the Collegians, he was also 2-2, and recorded 15 strikeouts.

Eight teams comprise the ACBL, with four-teams in each of the two Divisions. The Robbins play in the Kaiser Division along with the Long Island Mustangs, the Metro NY Cadets, and the New York Generals. The Wolff Division is made up of the Jersey Pilots, the Kutztown Rockies, the Lehigh Valley Catz, and the Quakertown Blazers.

The ACBL has had 82 of its former players go on to appear in the Major Leagues, and eight former ACBL All-Stars are on 2007 MLB rosters.

For more information on the ACBL, please log onto http://www.acbl-online.com/. There you will find complete up-to-date news, statistics, stadium information, and directions for each of the eight teams in the League. In addition, please check back at http://www.posteagles.com/, periodically throughout the summer, for updates on the progress of Mangini and the Stamford Robbins.