Baseball Adds New Spring Signee To Existing Incoming Class
5/11/2009 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
May 11, 2009
HOUSTON -- The Rice baseball program has added a new signee for the spring semester to go along with the existing ten-player signing class who will join the team for the 2010 season, announced head coach Wayne Graham on Monday (May 11).
The new signee is Anthony (Tony) Cingrani of South Suburban College in South Holland, Illinois. Cingrani is a 6-foot-4, 190-pound, left-handed pitcher who helped SSC to a 32-19 record this season. He went 5-4 on the mound for the Bulldogs with a 3.51 ERA in 69.0 innings of work. Cingrani averaged 12.5 strikeouts per 9.0 innings and maintained a 2.8-to-1 strikeouts to walks ratio. A native of New Lenox, Ill., Cingrani was a prep standout at Lincolnway Central High School. South Suburban College is the same program that produced 1994 Rice standout and current Houston Astros pitcher Tim Byrdak.
Cingrani joins the current Rice signing class that includes pitchers Chris Anagnostou, Jon Thomas Chargois, Tyler Duffey, Jeremy Fant, Will Gray, Kevin Hahn, Chase McDowell and Tyler Spurlin, along with infielder Michael Ratterree and outfielder Will Maxwell. The signees officially enroll at Rice in the fall of 2009. Their first baseball season with the Owls would be in the spring of 2010.
Rice Baseball Signees (2008-09 School Year)
Name Pos. B-T Ht. Wt. Hometown (Previous School/High School)Chris Anagnostou P L/R 5-11 200 LaPorte (Alvin College/LaPorte HS)Jon Thomas Chargois P/IF S/R 6-2 180 Sulphur, La. (Sulphur HS)Anthony Cingrani P L/L 6-4 190 New Lenox, Ill. (South Suburban Col./Lincolnway Cent. HS)Tyler Duffey P R/R 6-3 195 Houston (Bellaire)Jeremy Fant P R/R 6-1 195 Cypress (Cypress Woods)Will Gray P R/R 6-5 210 Houston (Kinkaid)Kevin Hahn P L/L 6-0 195 Houston (Stratford)Will Maxwell OF L/R 6-2 192 Marietta, Ga. (The Walker School)Chase McDowell P/OF L/R 6-2 175 College Station (A&M Consolidated)Michael Ratterree IF/OF R/R 6-1 190 Houston (Memorial)Tyler Spurlin P/OF R/R 6-3 190 The Woodlands (The Woodlands HS)