Chabot Baseball Stars Cummings, DuRoff First-Team All State

Accolades are rolling in for Chabot College baseball players after the team cruised to a Coast-North Conference championship this past season. Nine Glads, topped by First-Team All-State picks Casey Cummings and Brian DuRoff, were all-conference selections.

Cummings (So, San Ramon Valley), a center fielder, was selected as conference MVP and NorCal Player of the Year. DuRoff (So, Monte Vista), a right fielder, was First-Team All-Coast-North and was CCCAA State Athlete of the Month for March -- a prestigious honor.

DuRoff led the state in home runs with a school-record 21 and in RBI with 78. He broke the Chabot record for home runs in a season with No. 19 in a 20-4 blowout of City College of San Francisco. Nate Schierholtz, a former San Francisco Giants right fielder, formerly held the Chabot record with 18 homers.

Cummings wound up tied for third in the state in homers with 17, and led the Glads in numerous categories: .387 average, 24 stolen bases, .820 slugging percentage, and .560 on base percentage. Additionally, Cummings and DuRoff are 4.0 GPA students.

The Gladiators (29-13-1 overall) won the conference crown by five games with a 15-5 mark, but fell to Sacramento City in a hard-fought best-of-three series in the NorCal Regional Playoffs.

Chabot's other first-team conference picks were pitcher Sam Heyman (FR, Acalanes), third baseman Fred Ramos (So, Arroyo) and second baseman Dominic Charles (FR, San Leandro).

The Glads' second-team all-conference picks were first baseman Alonzo Guijarro (So, Moreau Catholic), shortstop Justin Durflinger (So, Foothill), pitcher Hawk Hill (So, Alhambra) and pitcher Antoine Valerio (So, San Leandro).

Heyman (7-2, 2.07 era) and Hill (7-1, 4.59) were tied for 21st in the state in pitching wins with seven apiece. Heyman was 14th in the state in earned run average.