By Hal Levy, Shore Line Newspapers
Special to MaxPreps.com
Connecticut Gatorade Player of the Year Matt Harvey heads the list of participants for the Connecticut High School Coaches Association senior baseball all-star series which will take place Tuesday and Wednesday (June 12-13) at Plainville High School.
The state's first-even Super Juniors game also will be played June 13 at Plainville.
Harvey, drafted in the third round by the Angels and also signed with the University of North Carolina, will be on the District IV team, which will play District II at 5 p.m. Districts I and III will meet at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday with the winners to play at 5 p.m. June 13. The Super Juniors game will follow at 7:30 p.m.
Harvey's team will be coached by Bill Buscetto of Stonington, assisted by Ken Valliere of Windham.
On the team are Mike Aldrich and Tyler Turgeon, St. Bernard-Uncasville; Rob Bono and Ben Farina, Waterford; Chris Cote, Norwich Free Academy; P.J. Crowley, Stonington; Matt Fitton, Lyman Memorial-Lebanon; Mike Gallic, Tolland; Rocco Gondek, Glastonbury; Jesse Hahn and Harvey of Fitch; Evan Jones, Killingly; Ray Maselek, Cheney Tech-Manchester; Chris Nott, Montville; Connor Patros, Windham; Stephano Stravoravdis, Ledyard; Collin Wade, Bacon Academy-Colchester and Ryan Zrenda, Old Lyme.
On the District II club, coached by Mike Mora of Greenwich and John Cross of Brien McMahon-Norwalk, are Mike Bartlett, St. Joseph-Trumbull; Anthony Bonaventura, Bridgeport Central; Angelo Bruno and Mike Taliercio, Norwalk; Chris Carboni and Mike Sciarretta, Stamford; Curt Casali, New Canaan; Maxx Catapano, Fairfield Warde; Tyler Coollins, Trinity Catholic-Stamford; Matt Greco, Staples-Westport; Ryan Headley, Nore Dame-Fairfield; Billy Hood, Ridgefield; Ted Hurval and Tom Rombilus, Masuk-Monroe; Ryan McGrath, Newtown; John Miscioscia, Wilton; Matt Petrini, Immaculate-Danbury and Brett Shulick, Bunnell-Stratford.
District I will be coached by Eric Frank of Newington and Brian Crowley of New Britain and its players include Pedro Acevedo and Corey Rossignal, New Britain; David Antonucci, Wolcott; Michael Baccaro, Berlin; Dan Bittel, Northwestern Regional-Winsted; Tyler DePratto, Suffield; Jordan English, Windsor Locks; Brett Gotowala and Jeff Perillo, Newington; Matt Govoni and Luke Schumacher, Southington; Mike Johnston, Thomaston; Evan Martens, Avon; Rob Nicol, Simsbury; Jeremy Rachuda and Mitch Rossi, Bristol Central; Victor Santana, Plainville; Jack Wagoner, Northwest Catholic-West Hartford and Bryan Wyrebek, Bristol Eastern.
District III will be coached by Sheehan's Matt Altieri and Cheshire's Billy Mrowka and its players are Charlie Chancio, Seymour; Ryan David, Platt-Meriden; Pat Dean, Naugatuck; Mike Dooling, Foran-Milford; Bryan Doran, Jonathan Law-Milford; Bryan Dorsey, Cheshire; Bobby George, Sacred Heart-Waterbury; Ken Graveline, Woodland-Beacon Falls; Evan Gustafson, Portland; Brian Lemay, Pomperaug-Woodbury; Mark Micowski, Xavier-Middletown; Mike Olszyk, Career-New Haven; Mike Olt, Branford; Pat Paulson, East Haven; Max Russell, Amity Regional-Woodbridge; Peter Rynkowski, Haddam-Killingworth and Rob Torres, Sheehan-Wallingford.
A committee of coaches and scouts will select the top 18 players from the all-star series to play a game against a similar team from Massachusetts later in June.
The Super Juniors have been divided into East and West team for one game.
The East will be coached by Mike Garvie of St. Bernard-Uncasville, George Dummar of Branford and Lindsay Boutilier of Sports and Medical Sciences-Hartford. That team will consist of Brett Anderson, Bristol Eastern; Juan Bisano, New Britain; Tony Blake, Northwest Catholic-West Hartford; Andrew Bulkgar and Dave Soltis, Plainville; Connor Carignan, Norwich Free Academy; Matt Coyne, Bristol Central; Mitch Furber and Taylor Lewis, Montville; Sam Greenberg and Will Jolin, Guilford; Jordan Hockanberry, Glastonbury; Patrick Lowery and Harrison Smith, St. Bernard-Uncasville; Carlos Perez, Sports and Medical Sciences-Hartford; Pat Quinn, Waterford; Andrew Petrucci, Branford; A.J. Rataic, East Catholic-Manchester; Sean Scanlon, Ledyard and Mitch Wells, Xavier-Middletown.
The West, coached by Tom Neville, Immaculate-Danbury; Joe Rienato, Stratford and Scott Szturma, Bunnell-Stratford, includes Steve Corbett Woodland-Beacon Falls; Rocco Cundari, Brien McMAhon-Norwalk; Anthony Diana, Notre Dame-West Haven; Jason Esposito and Brian Kownacki, Amity Regional-Woodbridge; Nick Fico, Masuk-Monroe; Pat Fortunato, Fairfield Prep; Matt Iannazzo, Norwalk; Adam Katrenya, Naugatuck; Tyler Lasko and Dan Paolini, Bunnell-Stratford; Tim Martin and John Sulzicki Stratford; Mike McCarthy, Lyman Hall-Wallingford; Mark McCormack, Shelton; Gavin McCullough, Stamford; Rob Muir, Seymour; John O'Leary, Trinity Catholic-Stamford; Cody Quinn, Foran-Milford and Mike Samela, Staples-Westport.
The CHSCA also will conduct a softball all-star doubleheader, Wednesday June 13 in Meriden at 5 and 7 p.m.
The Class LL/L East all-stars will play the West and the Class M/S East and West also will meet.
The Class LL/L East team is coached by Bill Alexander of Windsor and Sean Sweeney of Enrico Fermi-Enfield and includes Brittany Bamforth, third base, Rockville; Meghan Carta, catcher and Tori Satagaj, pitcher, Mercy-Middletown; Stephanie Clines, first base, Berlin; Lauren Collin, second base and Sarah Leone, first base, New Britain; Allison Czapla, first base and Jennifer Matthews, outfielder, Conard-West Hartford; Caitlin Eaton, pitcher, Luigina Facchini, outfielder and Hillary Schnip, infielder, Norwich Free Academy; Amanda Farnan, pitcher, Enrico Fermi-Enfield; Megan Ferreira, shortstop, Maloney-Meriden; Brooke LaLima, third base and Anna Levesque, catcher, Waterford; Ashley Ortiz, third base, Hamden; Tracy Sanko, outfield, Windsor and Izzie Santone, pitcher, Daniel Hand-Madison.
The West team is coached by Tony Calcagni of Farmington and Chris D'Amato of Bristol Eastern. Players include Audrey Boutin, shortstop, Bristol Eastern; Kathleen Brenneman, pitcher, Amanda DeLouise and Kristine Glynn, shortstop, first base, Cheshire; Samantha Ciarccia, outfield, Newtown; Kim Curry, catcher and Chelsea Methot, shortstop, Bristol Central; Meg Cyr, pitcher and Corinne DeJoseph, shortstop, Nonnewaug-Woodbury; Katie Dinihanian, second base, Bunnell-Stratford; Birttany English, shortstop, Wilton; Hayley Hovhanessian, outfield, Farmington; Jess Kahlenback, outfield and Katie Yanagisana, second base, Amity Regional-Woodbridge; Jocelyn Mach, third base, Newington; Meghan Mammone, catcher, Stamford; Angela Monaco, third base, Masuk-Monroe and Erica Priebe, shortstop. Platt-Meriden.
The Class M/S East team is coached by Rick Arremony of Griswold and Mary Tobins of Cromwell and includes Jess Arremony, shortstop, Heather DeRico, catcher and Samantha LaPointe, outfield, Griswold; Shania Betancourt, pitcher, Goodwin Tech-New Britain; Ashley Bilodeau, shortstop, East Catholic-Manchester; Heidi Blanchard, outfield, Stonington; Hope Brigham, first base, St. Bernard-Uncasville; Sammy Burr, third base, Haddam-Killingworth; Jess Caouette, outfield, Wolcott; Sara Forcella, pitcher and Kayla Jandreau, catcher, Plainville; Britney Halpin, catcher, Cromwell; Amy Hartman, shortstop, Ellington; Jessica Horvath, first base, Lauralton Hall-Milford; Kim Munson, catcher and Brittany Whiteley, shortstop, Windsor Locks and Erin Toolan, outfield and Ali Wasley, second base, Hale-Ray-East Haddam.
The M/S West team is coached by Melanie Paolini of Jonathan Law-Milford and Ken Pereiras of Seymour and includes Jen Bordonaro, outfield and Beck Lachance, pitcher, Gilbert-Winsted; Melanie Chapman, third base, Suffield; Chelsea Harold, outfield, Jess Rickel, catcher and Brittany Wyskiel, second base, Seymour; Samantha Hathaway, first base and Kristen Hunt, third base, Jonathan Law, Milford; Rachel Kindl, shortstop, Granby Memorial; Bekan Lindquist, third base, Lewis Mills-Burlington; Amy Morrissey, outfield, Carla Nunez, third base, and Jen Russell, pitcher, St. Joseph-Trumbull; Morique Peterson and Chelsea Rich, outfield, Woodland-Beacon Falls; Brittany Soucy, catcher and Ali Truss, shortstop, St. Paul-Bristol and Nicole Vena, catcher, Stratford.
