Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Let's Play Two

It has been several years since Dartmouth has had a combination football-baseball player but incoming wide receiver Bo Patterson has expressed an interest in playing for the Big Green baseball team, which this weekend will face Princeton in the Ivy League Championship Series.

One of eight finalists for the South Carolina Mr. Football Award (link), the 6-foot-1, 185-pound Patterson is the centerfielder for the James Island Charter High School Trojans, who were 25-3 and ranked 43rd nationally through the end of April according to MaxPreps. Current stats are hard to come by, but through the middle of April Patterson was hitting a team-best .446 with 16 stolen bases according to this site, which features a picture of him at the plate.

UPDATE: A loyal reader who winters in the area reports Patterson was batting .460 (40-for-87) with 21 stolen bases through April 28.

On the football field, Patterson passed for 1,755 yards and 17 touchdowns and ran for 1,027 yards and nine touchdowns last fall. As a junior he caught 75 passes for 1,002 yards and 11 TDs. (link) Find Patterson's high school football highlight video here.
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A look at Dartmouth's spring recruiting class will be posted tonight on the regular Big Green Alert site. It will include Coach Buddy Teevens' thoughts on the prized wide receiver's baseball hopes as well as on all the recruits who committed this spring.
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There aren't a great many football-baseball crossovers in Division I but the Big Green will see one in Week Five next fall. Holy Cross tight end Josh Hauser also pitches for the Crusaders. (link). Yale quarterback Brook Hart added baseball to his resume as a junior and senior. The 6-foot-5 southpaw pitched to a 2.23 ERA with 47 strikeouts in 64.2 innings while posting a 4-5 record this spring.

Much-traveled Harvard quarterback Andrew Hatch played in 28 games this spring in his lone season of college baseball. He was 2-0 with a 1.84 ERA in eight relief appearances but had less success at the plate, batting .213 in 47 at bats.
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Cornell football has a catchy video built around the slogan, Bringing back the tradition. Along with the flashy new website it's another example that a school that has been emerging as an athletic powerhouse is serious about turning the football program around.

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