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USF Summer Baseball Blog No. 10 - Matt Lujan
June 24, 2009
Sophomore left-hander Matt Lujan is currently playing for the Brewster Whitecaps in the Cape Cod League. He fills us in on his summer so far.
What is happening USF fans!?!? This is Matt Lujan reporting on my summer ball experience. This is my second summer traveling away from home; I will be a junior at USF next year and can't wait! Well let me tell you that last summer I thought I was far from home and I was only in Washington. This summer I am blogging all the way from a small town in Cape Cod Massachusetts called Brewster. I was fortunate enough to be one of very few college baseball players playing in the Cape Cod summer baseball league. The environment here is awesome! The people who run the program are all about us and my host family is once again fabulous.
The Brewster Whitecaps are embarking on their twentieth year in the "Cape." The coaching staff is awesome, headed by lefty pitching coach from UCSB, Tom Meyers, who I could ask nothing less of. The competition in this league is like nothing I have ever seen before. Everyday a new pitcher is on the mound pounding 90mph fastballs with nasty movement and dirty sliders. With good pitching comes great hitting as well, I have seen 95mph fastballs get turned on and hit a mile. For now though I would say that the pitchers have the upper hand, but I am counting on the hitting to come around. The fields we play at are all within an hour of each other so that makes it very easy to travel from one to the next. I really have no complaints about where I am and the type of people I am playing for and with.
Lately the weather has not been great. I got rained out of my second start which is very unusual on the "Cape," or so say the locals. The team here is awesome. We have quite a few guys from California which makes sense because that is where the coaches are from. Guys the readers may know include USD guys Casey Schmidt and Kyle Blair, Pepperdine's Scott Alexander, Cal's Mark Canha, UCLA's Eric Goeddel and Niko Gallego and our very own USF Don Stephen Yarrow.
So far my experience has been phenomenal. I am learning something new every day whether it be from a coach, player or our competition. This summer is a wonderful opportunity for me as a person and as a ball player. My roommate this summer is also a left handed pitcher from Vanderbilt University, Sean Bierman, an awesome dude originally from New Jersey. That being said he is a Yankee fan and the Boston fans around here like to give him a hard time.
Well Don readers it has been a pleasure sharing what I have been through so far! Hope everyone is doing great. Take it easy.
Go Dons!
