Thursday, August 3, 2006
Former PC Standout Makes Move To Northern League
GARY, Ind. – Recently former Presbyterian baseball standout Kevin White made the move from the Traverse City Beach Bums of the Frontier League to the Gary SouthShore RailCats of the Northern League.
The move could be construed as a boon for the PC slugger - who is the school-record holder in nine statistical categories - due to the fact that the RailCats won the league championship in 2005 in the competitive Northern League, a professional independent baseball league consisting of eight teams located in four states and two Canadian provinces.
White began his professional career with the Richmond Roosters (Ind.) in the Frontier League in 2004, winning the Simontacchi Award as the league’s Rookie-of-the-Year after hitting .322 with 11 home runs and 37 RBIs.
Over his two seasons with Richmond, White accumulated 199 hits, batting .305 with 31 home runs, 35 doubles and 341 total bases for a .522 slugging percentage. The right-handed slugger also added 109 RBIs, driving in a run every 6.5 at-bats.
White began his 2006 baseball campaign with Traverse City (Mich). He was batting .240 with five doubles at the time of the trade on June 22. In 31 games for the RailCats, White is batting at a .221 clip to go along with seven doubles and a pair of home runs. He has driven in 14 runs and been plated 19 times.
Over his last five games, White has batted .267 (4-15) with two walks, two runs and an RBI. He has helped lead the RailCats to an 8-11 record in the second half, placing them just one game out of the lead in the East Division of the Northern League.
White’s success at the professional level is a direct result of his time at PC where he had a prodigious career, finishing 2004 as the South Atlantic Conference Player-of-the-Year.
The Spartanburg, S.C. native was an All-SAC selection all of his four years at Presbyterian and was selected to the ABCA All-South Region team three of those four years.
In 2002 White was selected as the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association South Region Player-of-the-Year after batting a school-best .425 to couple with a slugging percentage of .802. That season White, who also drove in 72 runs, also set the school’s single season total bases record with 170.
A two-time NCAA Division II All-American, White garnered his first All-America nod in 2002 before earning his second in 2004.
White finished his PC career as the school’s career record holder in nine offensive categories. He holds the record for runs scored (212), hits (321), RBIs (216), home runs (47), doubles (60), triples (13), total bases (548), batting average (.384) and slugging percentage (.656).