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Chad Gallagher is a redshirt junior from
Southboro,
Mass. The left-hander posted a 6-2 record a season ago in 14 starts with a 4.58
ERA. He led the Red Foxes in victories and starts. Marist won all eight of his
conference starts. Gallagher walked 20 and fanned 38 in 74.2 innings. He made 12
appearances in 2009, all out of the bullpen. He did not pitch in 2008. Gallagher
is a Communications major.
Kyle Putnam is a senior from New Windsor, N.Y. The right-hander was 4-4 in
14 starts in 2010 with a 5.84 ERA. He led the staff with 81.2 innings. Putnam
was Second Team All-MAAC as a sophomore, going 4-4 with one save and a 4.08 ERA.
He tossed three complete games. During his first three years with the Red Foxes,
Putnam has struck out 103 and walked 47 in 187.2 innings.
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Feb. 25, 2011
Heading South to Start the
Season
 There
really is nothing like opening weekend in the college baseball season.
No matter what part of
the country you’re from, opening weekend gives every team hope and optimism for
the upcoming season. Teams like us, from the Northeast, have been buried under
snow for months now and have not seen a field since the end of fall practice,
the beauty of being a Northeast baseball player.
Last Wednesday we
concluded our final preparations before boarding a bus headed for Johnson City,
Tenn., to face the ETSU Bucs.
We started our trip
early Thursday morning boarding the bus just before 5 a.m. and made a pit stop
at James Madison University, where we would have our first outdoor practice
since October. We almost forgot what it felt like to be outside in warm weather
on an actual baseball field. Our coaches have done an excellent job in preparing
us through all our indoor workouts that you couldn’t even tell it was our first
day out on the field.
After some brief
defense and batting practice, it was back on the bus for seven more hours.
We arrived in Johnson
City just before 7 p.m., in time to grab dinner and head to sleep before our
first game of the 2011 season.
 It
seemed so long since the last time we had a game, but it was great to be back on
the diamond. We ended up taking the middle of the three-game set and left
Tennessee holding a 1-2 record. Not what we wanted coming into the weekend, but
for being on a field for the first time in over three months, there were a lot
of positives to take away from the weekend.
Let us tell you
firsthand there is nothing worse than coming from 60-degree weather back to 6
inches of snow. From on a beautiful field in Tennessee back to a gym floor, the
anticipation for this weekend is higher than ever. After correcting some
mistakes made in the first weekend and improving on the things we did well, we
have some high expectations for the upcoming weekend in Wilmington, N.C.
Hopefully the sun will
be shining in New York while we’re gone so some of the snow will melt, but in
the meantime we have three games to compete in. We will check back in next week,
hopefully not with more snow.
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