College Beat: Former Baler Anthony Synegal is batting .329
San Benito High School graduate Anthony Synegal (Class of ’04)
and the Gonzaga Bulldogs baseball team qualified toward the NCAA
Division I Tournament last weekend after it routed Loyola Marymount
14-3, clinching its first ever West Coast Conference title as well
its first postseason berth since 1981.
College Beat: Former Baler Anthony Synegal is batting .329
San Benito High School graduate Anthony Synegal (Class of ’04) and the Gonzaga Bulldogs baseball team qualified toward the NCAA Division I Tournament last weekend after it routed Loyola Marymount 14-3, clinching its first ever West Coast Conference title as well its first postseason berth since 1981.
Compiling a record of 35-16 overall, 14-7 in the WCC, the Zags earned the No. 19 national ranking following its win last weekend, according to Baseball America.
No. 3 Gonzaga, meanwhile, will open the NCAA tournament in the Fullerton Regional, where it will play in a four-team, double-elimination first round against No. 2 Georgia Southern University today, Friday, at 3 p.m.
No. 1 Cal State Fullerton and No. 4 University of Utah make up the other two teams in Gonzaga’s regional.
Synegal, meanwhile, who transferred last year from San Jose City College, is batting .329 (54 of 164) for the Zags, including six home runs – all of which came in WCC play – and 32 RBI. He started in 47 of the Bulldogs’ 51 games this season.
A 5-foot-10, 201-pound senior who is listed as both a catcher and outfielder – he played catcher for the Balers – Synegal was recently named first team all-WCC.
