College National Team Adds 15 Names

Staff Report
June 15, 2006

USA Baseball swelled the ranks of college freshmen and sophomores invited to its national team trials, as 15 players accepted invitations to the trials to swell the total invitee list to 35.

The list includes one junior who already plans on serving his country. Army lefthander Nick Hill, who led the nation in ERA in 2005 during a 10-2, 1.21 season, accepted an invitation even though he was the Blue Jays' 47th-round pick. Hill went 6-4, 3.34 in 2006.

The latest list also includes only one player currently in the College World Series in North Carolina catcher/first baseman Tim Federowicz. Four of the invited players hail from the Pacific-10 Conference, including two who are USA Baseball alumni. Arizona State first baseman/lefthander Ike Davis and California righthander Tyson Ross both were members of the 2004 junior national team, and Ross played for the junior team last summer as well, while Davis was on the '03 youth national team. The other Pac-10 invitees are Washington State outfielder/pitcher Jared Prince and UCLA shortstop Brandon Crawford, after only one Pac-10 player was among the first 20 players invited.

Team USA will hold trials on the road this year against real competition, as the 35-man roster will take on teams from the New England Collegiate League during a tour from June 24-July 1.

TEAM USA INVITEES

Name	Pos.	Class	School
Pedro Alvarez	3B	Fr.	Vanderbilt
J.P. Arencibia	C	So.	Tennessee
Jake Arrieta	RHP	So.	Texas Christian
Bryan Augenstein	RHP	So.	Florida
Darwin Barney	SS	So.	Oregon State
Mike Bianucci	OF	Fr.	Auburn
Julio Borbon	OF	So.	Tennessee
Preston Clark	C	Fr.	Texas
*Ramon Corona	UT	So.	N.C. State
*Collin Cowgill	OF	So.	Kentucky
Zack Cozart	SS	So.	Mississippi
*Brandon Crawford	SS	Fr.	UCLA
*Ike Davis	LHP/1B	Fr.	Arizona State
*Tony Delmonico	SS/UT	Fr.	Tennessee
*Ross Detwiler	LHP	So.	Missouri State
Sean Doolittle	OF/LHP	So.	Virginia
*Tim Federowicz	C/1B	Fr.	North Carolina
Todd Frazier	SS	So.	Rutgers
*Christian Friedrich	LHP	Fr.	Eastern Kentucky
*Nick Hill	LHP	Jr.	Army
*Tommy Hunter	RHP	So.	Alabama
*Roger Kieschnick	OF	Fr.	Texas Tech
Austin Krum	OF	So.	Dallas Baptist
Sean Morgan	RHP	So.	Tulane
Wynn Pelzer	RHP	So.	South Carolina
David Price	LHP	So.	Vanderbilt
*Jared Prince	OF/RHP	Fr.	Washington State
Wes Roemer	RHP	So.	Cal State Fullerton
*Tyson Ross	RHP	Fr.	California
Joe Savery	LHP/1B	So.	Rice
Nick Schmidt	LHP	So.	Arkansas
*Aaron Shafer	RHP	Fr.	Wichita State
Cole St. Clair	LHP	So.	Rice
Damon Sublett	2B/RHP	So.	Wichita State
*Kyle Weiland	RHP	Fr.	Notre Dame