Rays Baseball Club has welcomed three college players from the United States who will be playing for Redlands in the Senior Division 1 and 2 leagues for the 2017/18 baseball season.
They are Ben Andrews, Dustin Wells and Riley Moore.
Ben’s home town is Seattle, Washington and he is currently affiliated with the Linfield College Wildcats baseball team in Oregon.
He first started playing T-Ball when he was 4 years old and his preferred positions are first base, third base or short stop.
While at Redlands, Ben will also be coaching the Rays Junior League Bandits team and is being hosted by the Murray family at Birkdale.
Dustin comes from Glendale, Arizona and his college is George Fox University. He started playing baseball at Little League level and is a pitcher for his university team.
Dustin will be the starting pitcher for the Rays Division 1 team during his time at Redlands and is hosted by Matt Wyatt.
Riley’s home is in Danville, California and he also started playing T-Ball at age four. Riley comes to us from Diablo Valley College Vikings in California.
His preferred position is pitcher but he has also been an infielder and catcher. While he is with us, Riley will be coaching the Rays Little League Bandits team and is looking forward to being involved in club events wherever he can.
Riley’s cousin, Frank Chance is in the Baseball Hall of Fame and you can read all about Frank at https://baseballhall.org/hof/chance-frank.
Riley’s host family is Elisabeth Caloiero-Smith and son, Isaac.
Redlands Baseball also welcomes new head coach, Dudley Johnson who this season will be coaching the club’s Division 1 and 2 teams.
Dudley has been playing baseball since he was 9 years old and for most of his playing years, was involved with Logan Sharks, Runcorn Indians and Redcliffe Padres.
For the past six years, he has held the position of Assistant Coach for Brisbane South Senior League Teams, accompanying them to State and National Championships in Brisbane, Lismore, the Gold Coast and interstate.
By Dorry Beutel.
