Roller Named To Cape Cod All-Star Team
July 17, 2009 | Baseball
July 17, 2009
GREENVILLE, N.C. - East Carolina rising senior Kyle Roller is one of 42 players named to participate in the 2009 Under Armour Cape Cod Baseball League All-Star game to be held on Thursday, July 23 at Boston's Fenway Park with a first pitch scheduled for 7 p.m.
Roller, who helped the Pirates to the 2009 Conference USA regular season title and its first appearance in a Super Regional since 2004, is batting .326 ranking fifth in the league. On the season he has helped the Bourne Braves to a 13-11-2 record sitting atop the Western Division.
The Rockingham, N.C. native leads the Cape in doubles (9), slugging percentage (.576) and extra-base hits (14), while ranking among the leaders in home runs (4), RBI (13) and runs scored (13). Back on June 23, Roller was named Coca-Cola Hitter-of-the-Week after belting two home runs and driving in seven of the Braves 22 runs on the week.
Roller is one of five players from Conference USA to participate in the mid-summer classic joining Blake Kelso (Houston), B.A. Vollmuth (Southern Miss), Taylor Wall (Rice) and Nick Crawford (UAB).
