AMSTERDAM — The Amsterdam Mohawks had six alumni chosen in the Major League Baseball draft this week. Then the current team threw a no-hitter on Tuesday night at Shuttleworth Park.
Just business as usual for the Mohawks, who are the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League’s dynasty.
The defending champion Mohawks are 28-2-1 this season after Tuesday’s 12-0 victory over the Albany Dutchmen in a game shortened to 6½ innings by the mercy rule. Mohawks coach Keith Griffin, seeking his ninth championship in 14 years with the Mohawks, said he sets very high expectations.
“It’s every year, we’ve got to win the championship,” Griffin said before Tuesday’s game. “I don’t know while I’m here if that will ever change. Like I told (the players) the same thing, if we do right, I like our chances better than everybody else’s chances. If we play right.”
Not much has gone wrong for the Mohawks, who had a 16-game winning streak earlier this season, the longest unbeaten string in franchise history.
The PGCBL is a college summer league with 16 teams, all based in New York. With mostly freshmen and sophomores, there is major roster turnover every season, but the Mohawks just keep winning.
“The Capital District, if we can get the best players there, I’d be good about that,” Griffin said.
The Mohawks have 11 Section II alumni on their roster, including Colonie High graduate Tyler Sausville and Columbia alum Zach Eldred.
Sausville, a pitcher who completed his freshman year at Division II New Haven, is 5-0 with a 1.06 earned-run average this summer. He’s transferring to Xavier next season.
Eldred, a junior outfielder and pitcher for Division III Brockport, ranks ninth in the league with a .356 batting average. He’s in the top five with four homers and 24 RBIs.
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