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Aug
26
Johnny Ayers Continues to Amaze
Posted by Greg | Filed Under News |
Steve Conroy of the Boston Herald reported this summer on the phenom that is Johnny Ayers. I hadn’t realized Ayers was also a collegiate punter. Here’s a synopsis of Conroy’s report.
The punter is not usually one of the best-known players on a football team, at least not on a good one.
But Boston College punter Johnny Ayers got his fair share of ink over the offseason. That’s what happens when you welcome the latest addition to Red Sox [team stats] Nation with a slap double, as Ayers did against Daisuke Matsuzaka in March as a member of the Eagles baseball team.
While playing for Yarmouth-Dennis of the Cape Cod Baseball League this summer, that hit made Ayers a mini-celebrity.
“I heard a lot about it this summer on the Cape,” said the bemused Virginia native yesterday. “There are a lot of Red Sox fans on the Cape. I even signed a couple of balls for charity. And I don’t think my signature is worth anything, but apparently a couple of people found it a novelty and hopefully it made some money for charity. . . . A lot of BC grads have come up to me and said, ‘Congratulations, but you had us worried for a minute.’ Luckily, he’s had a good year and the Red Sox have, too, so I was just a blip on their radar.”
The CCBL All-League Team has been announced and it is on the CCBL website. No real surprises as far as I’m concerned…I think they got it right.
No Wareham Gatemen or Harwich Mariners made the All-League team. Miami leads the way with three players. USC and Missouri both have a pair on the 21-player list. No big surprises, I agree.
No Harwich pitchers deserved a nod and neither did any Wareham position players.
Cole Figueroa was probably considered for Harwich as was Chris Hicks and Andy Oliver for the Gatemen.
Missouri is a “program on the rise” as ranked by Rivals.com and having 2 of the best players on the Cape is a strong sign that they are right. Other schools on that list included UC-Irvine, San Diego, Michigan, Coastal Carolina, Texas A&M, UC-Riverside, Memphis, Louisville and UCLA.
It will be interesting to watch how those schools are represented on the Cape in coming years. I know that UCLA has made a splash as has UC-Irive (aside from Scott Gorgen not coming). I believe San Diego may have had one or two players on the Cape this season as well. I’ll be looking at the rosters to see if players from Michigan and Lousiville start showing up. Louisville, in particular, was a college world series team; almost making it to the finals.