PEORIA, Ill. – Bradley Baseball once again will be represented across the country as 16 returning Braves are playing in eight summer collegiate baseball leagues from coast-to-coast.

Headlining the group, junior outfielder Max Murphy (Robbinsdale, Minn./Cooper H.S.) and sophomore LHP Brent Stong (Andover, Minn./Andover H.S.) are teaming together for the Falmouth (Mass.) Commodores in the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League.

During the summer of 2011, former Bradley LHP Joe Bircher starred for Falmouth, earning all-league honors after leading the Cape with 44 strikeouts and finishing second with a 1.44 earned run average.  He carried over that summer success to his senior season in 2012, when he earned first-team All-Missouri Valley Conference honors by going 7-3 with a 2.70 ERA and the second-best single-season strikeouts total (113) in program history.

The 2013 Cape Cod Baseball League season will begin Wednesday and Falmouth will host the Harwich Mariners in the season-opener at Guv Fuller Field.

On the other side of the country, junior LHP David Koll (Lake Elmo, Minn./Stillwater Area H.S.) and junior DH/1B Greg Partyka (Bartlett, Ill./Bartlett H.S.) are teaming together for the Matsu Minors in the Alaska Baseball League.  The Minors will open the 2013 summer season Thursday by hosting the Alaska Goldpanners.  Bircher and star OF Mike Tauchman both enjoyed all-star seasons in Alaska in 2010.

2013 Bradley Baseball Summer League Assignments

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