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Nylen Back with Knights

September 27, 2011 - West Coast League (WCL)
Corvallis Knights News Release


Outfielder Matt Nylen, a key member of the Corvallis Knights 2011 West Coast League championship team, will return to the team for the 2012 season, president Dan Segel announced Tuesday.

The Knights also announced the signing of first baseman/outfielder Nick Torres, a freshman at Cal Poly, and catcher Austin Barr, a senior at Camas (Wash.) High School who will play at Stanford in 2013.

A two-year standout at Mt. Hood CC, Nylen is now a junior at Western Oregon. He joined the team as a 10-day signee, earned a full-time roster spot, and hit .238 with no homers and 16 RBIs in 43 regular-season games. He hit .258 overall, with no homers and 19 RBIs, including non-league games and the playoffs.

Nylen was a first-team NWAACC South Division All-Star in 2011 for MHCC. He also played for the Saints in 2010 after graduating from Clackamas High School.

Torres is a 6-foot-2, 200-pound graduate of Lakewood High in Lakewood, Calif. He was a C.I.F. Southern Section Division 1 all-star in 2011 and was the Moore League co-MVP. He hit .373, with five doubles, five triples, two homers and 27 RBIs in 34 games for Lakewood as a senior, and played with the SoCal Outlaws summer league team for two years.

Barr is a 6-foot-2, 210-pound right-handed hitter who was recruited by almost every Pacific-12 Conference team. He made the Vancouver Columbian newspaper's all-region team and was a first-team Greater St. Helens League all-star as a junior in 2011.

"He's a five-tool kid. He has it all. He has exactly what a baseball body should be. He's big, strong and has a 4.0 grade-point average," Camas coach Joe Hallead said of Barr.

Nylen is the sixth member of the 2011 championship team to re-sign with the Knights. He joins catcher Dane Lund and shortstop Alex Foulon of Mt. Hood CC; outfielder Cade Gotta of Riverside (Calif.) CC; and pitchers Mark Trentacosta of UC Irvine and Chris Mendoza of Santa Clara.

TEE SHIRTS AVAILABLE: Knights' 2011 commemorative championship tee-shirts are available at the team's offices in the Madison Plaza building in downtown Corvallis (corner 4th Street and Madison Avenue), or by mail at PO Box 1356, Corvallis, OR 97339-1356.

They are $22.50 apiece. Checks should be made out to "Knights Baseball Club." If you need your tee-shirt (or shirts) shipped, please add $7.50 to your order for shipping & handling.

KNIGHTS ALL-STARS: Former Knight Dean Green (2008), now with the Class A Connecticut Tigers in the Detroit organization, made the New York-Penn League all-star team. He hit .341, with seven homers and 41 RBIs.

First baseman/designated hitter Jim Murphy, the Knights' 2007 MVP, made the Class A South Atlantic League all-star team. He played for Philadelphia's affiliate in Lakewood, N.J., and hit .268 in 129 games, with 35 doubles, 22 homers, 77 RBIs and a .490 slugging percentage.

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