Carter Leads Off List of 98 Coastal Plain League Alumni Selected in 2011 MLB First-Year Player Draft

Published on June 17, 2011 under Coastal Plain League (Coastal Plain) News Release


HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C. - The Coastal Plain League announced Friday that 98 players, both former and players signed for the 2011 season were selected during the 2011 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. Kes Carter, a former Peninsula Pilot in 2009 and 2010, highlighted this year's CPL draft class after hearing his name called in the first supplemental round, 56th overall to the Tampa Bay Rays. A total of 18 CPL players were taken in the first 10 rounds of this year's draft, the third highest total during the league's 15-year history. The CPL has had 313 players drafted in the last three years alone.

All of the CPL's 15 clubs had a player taken in the 2011 draft. The Peninsula Pilots led the way with 14 former and current players selected. Florence and Edenton tallied the second-highest amount with 11 each, while Fayetteville followed with nine. Columbia was next with eight, while Forest City (including Spartanburg), Morehead City and Thomasville each witnessed seven players taken off the board. Martinsville had six, followed by Gastonia, Wilmington and Wilson with five each. Finally, Asheboro, Outer Banks and Petersburg rounded things out with four selections apiece.

The complete list of CPL players drafted follows:

Round Overall Player College Drafted By CPL Teams(s)

1S 56 Kes Carter Western Kentucky Tampa Bay Peninsula ('09)

2 83 Will Lamb Clemson Texas Peninsula ('09,'10)

3 94 Mike Wright East Carolina Baltimore Asheboro ('09)

3 103 Pratt Maynard NC State Los Angeles (NL) Forest City ('09)

2S 121 Carter Capps Mount Olive Seattle Martinsville ('09) /

Fayetteville ('10)

4 128 Mark Lowery James Madison Cleveland Petersburg ('10)

4 137 Jason King Kansas State Detroit Fayetteville ('08)

5 175 Ryan Wright Louisville Cincinnati Thomasville ('09)

6 209 Jake Cave LSU New York (AL) Peninsula ('11)

7 215 Trent Howard Central Michigan Baltimore Wilson ('09,'11)

8 247 Gregory Holt North Carolina Washington Asheboro ('08) / Wilson ('10)

8 249 Taylor Dugas Alabama Chicago (NL) Thomasville ('09)

8 263 Kevin Quackenbush South Florida San Diego Fayetteville ('08)

9 300 James Rice Western Kentucky Tampa Bay Peninsula ('10)

10 302 Taylor Lewis Maine - Orono Pittsburgh Florence ('09)

10 310 Kyle Hallock Kent State Houston Peninsula ('09)

10 326 Logan Robbins Western Kentucky Atlanta Peninsula ('10)

10 327 Kentrell Hill Arkansas Baptist San Francisco Edenton ('11)

11 334 William Locante Cumberland Arizona Florence ('09)

11 344 David Wingo South Carolina Los Angeles (NL) Gastonia ('08) / Columbia ('09)

11 359 Mark Montgomery Longwood New York (AL) Edenton ('10) / Peninsula ('11)

12 368 Steven Sides Samford Cleveland Martinsville ('08)

12 376 Xavier Macklin North Carolina A&T Oakland Wilson ('09) /

Asheboro ('10, '11)

13 415 Nickolas Fleece Texas A&M Cincinnati Fayetteville ('08)

13 418 Steven Evans Liberty Minnesota Wilson ('08)

14 434 Justin Bourdreaux Southeastern La. Los Angeles (NL) Martinsville ('10)

15 463 Jhiomar Veras Western Oklahoma St. Florida Gastonia ('10)

15 468 Timothy Smalling Virginia Tech Colorado Wilson ('07)

15 470 Matthew Williams Liberty St. Louis Columbia ('09, '10)

15 476 Francis Cornely Wofford Atlanta Outer Banks ('08, '09, '10)

16 501 Chris Bassitt Akron Chicago (AL) Edenton ('10, '11)

16 511 John Black Kentucky Philadelphia Forest City ('08) /

Columbia ('10)

17 517 Esteban Guzman San Jose State Washington Edenton ('11)

17 522 Jonathan Clark Lee New York (NL) Gastonia ('11)

17 532 Blake Forslund Liberty Boston Columbia ('11)

18 548 Shawn Armstrong East Carolina Cleveland Morehead City ('10, '11)

18 556 David Powers Sam Houston State Oakland Morehead City ('11)

18 560 Kyle Hald Old Dominion St. Louis Peninsula ('10)

18 562 Andrew Jones Samford Boston Martinsville ('08)

18 568 Corey Kimes Illinois Minnesota Fayetteville ('11)

19 586 Eric Potter Maryland Oakland Outer Banks ('09)

19 590 Nick Gillung Mercyhurst St. Louis Florence ('09)

19 596 Troy Snitker North Georgia Atlanta Outer Banks ('10)

19 600 Matthew Ramsey Tennessee Tampa Bay Thomasville ('09)

21 633 Joseph DiRocco Seton Hall Seattle Edenton ('10)

21 649 Peter Mooney South Carolina Toronto Florence ('10)

22 663 John Taylor South Carolina Seattle Florence ('09)

22 676 Rhett Stafford Marshall Oakland Edenton ('09)

23 705 Zachary Borenstein Eastern Illinois Los Angeles (AL) Morehead City ('10)

23 710 Patrick Deese Western Carolina St. Louis Wilmington ('08) /

Florence ('09, '10)

24 726 Spencer Patton SIU-Edwardsville Kansas City Spartanburg ('07) /

Forest City ('08, '09)

24 740 Jonathan Cornelius Florida Tech St. Louis Martinsville ('10)

25 756 Mark Threlkeld Louisiana Tech Kansas City Thomasville ('11)

25 757 Erick Fernandez Georgetown Washington Peninsula ('10)

25 766 Chad Oberacker Tennessee Tech Oakland Morehead City ('10)

25 775 Justice French Mercer Cincinnati Wilmington ('08)

25 776 Will Skinner Middle Tenn. State Atlanta Forest City ('08, '09, '10)

26 787 Shawn Pleffner Tampa Washington Fayetteville ('11)

26 801 Grant Buckner West Virginia Chicago (AL) Forest City ('09, '10)

27 837 Steven Snodgrass Austin Peay State San Francisco Martinsville ('08)

27 838 Chris Mazza Menlo College Minnesota Twins Wilmington ('10, '11)

28 852 Jharel Cotton Miami Dade C.C. New York (NL) Peninsula ('10)

28 856 Thomas Girdwood Elon Oakland Morehead City ('10)

28 866 Matthew Talley The Citadel Atlanta Wilmington ('10)

29 877 Sean Cotten Tusculum College Washington Asheboro ('08, '09)

30 908 John Polonius Genessee C.C. Cleveland Edenton ('11)

30 914 Adam McConnell Richmond Los Angeles (NL) Peninsula ('10)

31 933 Kyle Hunter Kansas State Seattle Petersburg ('10)

31 954 Matthew Leeds College of Charleston Texas Columbia ('09)

32 967 Billy Burns Mercer Washington Edenton ('10)

32 969 Peter Levitt Mount Olive Chicago (NL) Gastonia ('11)

32 987 Michael Mergenthaler Richmond San Francisco Peninsula ('09, '10)

32 990 Ryan Turner Tarleton State Tampa Bay Edenton ('11)

32 991 Gregory Herbst St. Mary's Philadelphia Edenton ('10)

33 1012 David Chester Pittsburgh Boston Gastonia ('09, '10)

34 1026 Ali Williams Charleston Southern Kansas City Florence ('09)

35 1054 Ross Gerdeman Bowling Green State Arizona Columbia ('11)

35 1057 Alex Kreis Jamestown College Washington Florence ('10)

35 1068 Richard Pirkle George Coll. & State Colorado Florence ('09)

35 1075 Samuel Kimmel Indian River St. College Cincinnati Morehead City ('11)

36 1110 David Kubiak Albany Tampa Bay Outer Banks ('09, '10)

37 1136 Ryne Harper Austin Peay State Atlanta Wilmington ('09)

38 1155 Frank DeJiulio Tampa Los Angles (AL) Fayetteville ('11)

38 1161 Keegan Linza Liberty Chicago (AL) Columbia ('08)

39 1182 Charles Thurber Tennessee New York (NL) Thomasville ('09)

39 1190 Tyler Melling Miami St. Louis Thomasville ('09)

40 1206 Ben Waldrip Jacksonville State Kansas City Forest City ('11)

41 1250 Michael Knox Mount Olive St. Louis Fayetteville ('10) /

Morehead City ('11)

41 1257 Steven Neff South Carolina San Francisco Florence ('09)

42 1280 Cody Poarch Walters State C.C. St. Louis Forest City ('11)

45 1360 Christopher Epps Clemson Houston Thomasville ('09)

48 1451 Michael Francisco Villanova Milwaukee Petersburg ('09)

48 1465 Jon Webb South Carolina Cincinnati Columbia ('10)

48 1467 Jacob Smith Campbell San Francisco Florence ('10)

49 1475 Ronnie Shaban Virginia Tech Baltimore Petersburg ('09, '10)

49 1493 Ryan Hutchison Western Kentucky San Diego Peninsula ('11)

50 1525 Kevin McKague U.S. Military Academy Atlanta Fayetteville ('08) /

Peninsula ('10)

50 1529 Ian Tomkins Abilene Christian Tampa Bay Edenton ('10)

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