ROBERT WHITENACK SET FOR THE 2008 HAWAII COLLEGIATE BASEBALL LEAGUE
JUNE 13, 2008
OLD WESTBURY, N.Y.-SUNY College at Old Westbury's baseball program will be represented by sophomore flamethrower, Robert Whitenack (North Massapequa, N.Y.) at the highly coveted 2008 Hawaii Collegiate Baseball League. Whitenack garnered the Skyline Conference Pitcher of the Year honors to cap off a standout season and will pitch for the Waikiki Surfers.
Whitenack's season was highlighted with a no-hitter and 14 strikeouts with just one walk in leading the Panthers to an 11-0 victory over Polytechnic University on April 26th. Whitenack's no-hitter is the second in school history and the first since 1997. His 14 strikeouts are a single-game school record while his 67 strikeouts and 71 innings pitched are an Old Westbury single-season record.
As a freshman, Whitenack led Panthers with 43 strikeouts. One year later he was named top hurler of the Skyline Conference. Whitenack concluded the conference schedule sporting a 0.45 earned run average with a 4-1 record. Whitenack added two complete games and two shutouts in 40 innings on the mound, including 42 strikeouts, while holding the opposition to a .126 batting average.
On the season, Whitenack went 4-4 with a 2.28 earned run average with three complete games, two shut outs and one save in 71.0 innings with 67 strikeouts and held opponents to a .197 batting average.
The Hawaii Collegiate Baseball League is a developmental league that is sanctioned by the NCAA and Major League Baseball for elite Collegiate Baseball Players. The Hawaii Collegiate Baseball League is an elite summer collegiate baseball league that promotes the State of Hawaii as a premier destination for baseball activities and provides opportunities for Hawaii's youth in the game of baseball. The Hawaii Collegiate Baseball League was built upon the growing popularity of the College World Series at Omaha, Nebraska and the allure of an exotic location to promote the State of Hawaii as a new Mecca for the game of baseball. Aloha Stadium, a 50,000 seat major league baseball qualified facility with FieldTurf will serve as our base of operations.
For more information about the Old Westbury Panthers, or to follow your favorite Panther sports and events, log onto http://www.oldwestburypanthers.com/ . To follow day-to-day updates on Whitenack at the Hawaii Collegiate Baseball League, log onto http://www.hawaii-cbl.com/ .