2005 FCSL season

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2005 FCSL season
Regular season
DurationJune 6, 2005 – July 26, 2005
Playoffs
Start dateJuly 27, 2005
Double EliminationZephyrhills (2-0)
Sanford (2-1)
Winter Park (1-2)
Daytona (0-2)
FCSL Championship Game
DateJuly 31, 2005
SiteTropicana Field
Champions
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The 2005 FCSL season was the second season in the history of the Florida Collegiate Summer League, a wood bat collegiate summer baseball league operating in the southeastern United States region of central Florida. The league expanded to six franchises with the addition of the Zephyrhills Snappers of Zephyrhills, Florida and the Winter Haven Warthogs of Winter Haven, Florida.

In the championship game, played for the first time at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, Zephyrhills defeated Sanford 2-1 to capture the franchise's first FCSL title.[1]

Regular season standings[]

Rnk Team Wins Losses Win Pct. GB
1 22 11 .667 0
2 Winter Park Diamond Dawgs 20 13 .606 2
3 28 14 .562 3.5
4 Sanford River Rats 19 16 .543 4
5 11 19 .367 9.5
6 7 24 .226 14

Playoffs[]

Preliminary round[]

In 2005, the top four regular season finishers qualified for a double elimination tournament to qualify for the FCSL championship game at Tropicana Field.

  • Day 1- Zephyrhills (1-0) 7, Daytona (0-1) 6; Sanford (1-0) 5 Winter Park (0-1) 3
  • Day 2- Winter Park (1-1) 2, Daytona (0-2) 1-Daytona eliminated; Zephyrhills 8 (2-0) Sanford (1-1) 1; Sanford (2-1) 3, Winter Park (1-2) 2-Winter Park eliminated

Championship Game[]

Sunday, July 31, 2005 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Sanford 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 7 1
Zephyrhills 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 X 2 6 0

[2]

Leaders[]

Category Player Team Stat
Avg Lee Cruz Zephyrhills .410
ERA Ty Pryor Winter Park 0.66
H Lee Cruz Zephyrhills 48
R Kevin Gaston Zephyrhills 26
RBI Lee Cruz Zephyrhills 41
2B Orlando Rosales Zephyrhills 14
HR Lee Cruz Zephyrhills 6
TB Lee Cruz Zephyrhills 74
SB Kevin Gaston Zephyrhills 20
K Drew Shetrone Sanford 70

[3]

Weekly Awards[]

Week Player of the Week Pitcher of the Week
June 6–12 Courtney Propst Ty Pryor
June 13–19 Timmy Russell Mike Harley
June 20–26 Corey Whiting John Ducey
June 27-July 3 Matt Dobbins Ross Jackson
July 4–10 Kyle Patrick Drew Shetrone
July 11–17 Orlando Rosales Zach Butler
July 18–25 Lee Cruz Dave Nathanson

[4]

External links[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ [1][permanent dead link] Snappers Secure FCSL Title on the 'Home Turf' of Tropicana Field" at florida league.com, URL accessed January 17, 2008
  2. ^ [2] Archived 2007-10-17 at archive.today FCSL Box Score Archive at floridaleague.com, URL accessed January 18, 2009
  3. ^ [3][permanent dead link] FCSL Statistics Archive at floridaleague.com, URL accessed January 18, 2009
  4. ^ [4][permanent dead link] Weekly Awards Archive at floridaleague.com, URL accessed January 18, 2008
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