Familiar faces returning for Sherrill Silversmiths
Photo by Jay Fish
Taken from the Oneida Daily Dispatch
By Perry L. Novak and Kyle Mennig
The Silversmiths are keeping things in house this summer.
Sherrill’s collegiate league baseball team has a new head coach and a new assistant, as well as a returning assistant coach to help prepare for the 2013 season.
Last year’s head coach, Vernon-Verona-Sherrill alum Ben Grimm, has moved on to be Oneonta State’s baseball coach. Grimm will be the Silversmiths’ president, though. Taking his place as head coach is Dennis Duffy, last year’s pitching coach. Duffy played three years for Sherrill as did Mike Sherlock, who returns as a coach.
LeMoyne College senior Vincent Redmond, a graduate of the Ithaca area’s Lansing High School, played one summer for Sherrill and will embark on his first as an assistant coach. Matthew Rafte, a Rome, New York native, is the team’s general manager.
On the field the Silversmiths will have a roster of players from New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Florida, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama and Hawaii and about half from New York. One, St. John Fisher College freshman Collin Laguzza, is a VVS alum.
“It was recommended through (St. John’s Fisher head coach Brandon) Potter,” said Laguzza. “I watched their games and loved to have my name added to that list.”
Laguzza won’t be the only familiar face taking the field for Duffy’s squad this summer. Nate Eastman, a pitcher at Finger Lakes Community College, and Mark Sherlock, an outfielder at Marywood University in Pennsylvania, return after playing for the Silversmiths last summer.
