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Patch's Cohoes makes national baseball team

According to Mike Cuzzone of Amateur Baseball Report magazine, Patch senior shortstop Cavan Cohoes earned a spot on the U.S. Specialty Sports Association 16-and-under national team with his exceptional play at the USSSA World Series in August at Kissimmee, Fla.

Cuzzone E-mailed that Cohoes, who batted .446 with 29 RBI last season for Patch and was one of five players from Germany who jouneyed to Florida for the Series, will travel internationally next year with Team USSSA. K-town sophomore Ian Acosta and Patch junior Dylan Measells made the Team USSSA second team and have a chance to play next summer in the organization's Gold Medal Games, an international tournament in Kissimmee, Cuzzone wrote.

Two other Germany-based juniors, Aaren Blossom of Kaiserslautern and Ryan Tannenbaum of Patch, also made the trip to Florida.

 

 

 

 

 

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Gregory Broome is an experienced and accomplished community sports journalist. Officially a native of Iowa, Broome grew up a Department of Defense dependent at sites all over the United States and Germany.


He finally settled in Florida, earning a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Central Florida.

Broome began his journalism career in in 2004 as a sports writer for the Ocala Star-Banner in Ocala, Fla., covering high school, college and community sports and earning recognition for his work from the Florida Press Club. In 2009 Broome was named the first sports information director at College of Central Florida, an NJCAA member school, where he launched the program's website and social media pages and revamped its promotional and game-day operations.

Broome joined Stars and Stripes in October of 2012.


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