Letson, Pelzel Selected to Broadcast 2021 NECBL All-Star Game
July 14, 2021 - New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL) News Release
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- After a vote by their fellow broadcasting peers and representative of each team's front office, Newport's Zach Letson and Vermont's Quintin Pelzel have been selected as the 2021 New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL) All-Star Game play-by-play duo, as announced by the league Tuesday.
The two broadcasters will take their talents to historic Cardines Field this Sunday and team up to call all of the afternoon and evening's festivities, including the Home Run Derby and, of course, the main event of the All-Star Game itself.
"I would like to congratulate Zach and Quintin on earning the prestigious honor to broadcast Sunday's All-Star Game," Commissioner Sean McGrathÃÂ said. "They know as well as anyone how competitive this industry is and how high the level of broadcasting is in the NECBL. They should feel very proud to be recognized for their expertise by their peers and NECBL executives."
The NECBL, in conjunction with BlueFrame, will offer free broadcast coverage of Sunday's action for FREE on the NECBL Broadcast Network. To watch/listen, click here.
Additionally, the contest will air throughout Rhode Island on linear television network YurView.
Zach Letson
Zach Letson is a rising junior at Syracuse University and a native of Miami, Florida. At Syracuse, Letson studies Broadcast and Digital Journalist at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. He works in the sports department and the University's NPR radio station, WAER.
Letson is in his second season working with the Newport Gulls, but his first summer as the team's lead broadcaster and team publicist. He worked as a broadcast and media operations assistant for the 2019 season.
This past spring during the pandemic, Letson took a leave of absence from SU and stayed home in South Florida. He enrolled in classes at the University of Miami and broadcasted Hurricanes Baseball, as well as Men's and Women's Basketball for the university's student station, 90.5 WVUM. He also hosted a basketball segment for UMiami's student-run TV Station, UMTV. Letson returns to Syracuse this fall.
Quintin Pelzel
Quintin Pelzel is currently entering his final semester at Ithaca College majoring in Sports Media with a concentration in communications and minoring in business administration. He is in his second season as the voice of the Vermont Mountaineers.
At Ithaca College, Pelzel has had the pleasure of working at Ithaca College's radio station (91.7 WICB) where he broadcasts both men's and women's collegiate athletics, including softball, basketball and soccer. On WICB, he also co-hosts a weekly sports talk show on the weekends, which covers both local and national sports. Pelzel also writes for the school's newspaper, "The Ithacan" and has gained experience at Ithaca College Television as a football analyst on "The Gridiron Report."
Pelzel hopes to one day become a professional broadcaster or a sports talk show host.
The New England Collegiate Baseball League is a wooden bat college summer league that fields teams in all six New England states. Partially funded by Major League Baseball, the New England League started play in 1994 and has sent over 150 alumni to the Major Leagues with nearly 30 alumni taken in the first round of the MLB Draft. For continuing coverage of the NECBL, visit NECBL.com and follow the league on Twitter, Instagram and on Facebook.
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