Cal State reloads with 10 baseball recruits

Cal State San Bernardino baseball coach Don Parnell has begun to fill positions on his pitching staff for the 2008-09 season by signing four talented community college players from the San Diego area.

Parnell has also signed six high school seniors, five of them from Inland Empire schools.

The Coyotes have inked Dan Stenavich, a right-handed pitcher, and Jorge Dryjanski, a left-handed pitcher, both from Southwestern College, a team that produced a 22-3 regular season record and won the Pacific Coast Conference title.

Stenavich is 8-2 with a 1.88 earned run average in 16 appearances, 13 of them starts. He struck out 52 in 86 innings. He pitched a six-hitter in a 5-1 Southwestern win over El Camino in the state JC playoffs.

Dryjanski is 7-1 with a 3.27 ERA with 16 appearances, 11 of them starts. He has 57 strikeouts in 74 innings pitched.

Also joining the mound corps for CSUSB will be Kevin McLaughry, a lefty from Grossmont College who had a 2.27 earned run average and a 4-2 record for a team that went 20-20 on the regular season and finished third in the Pacific Coast Conference. Garret Jones, another lefthander from Grossmont, also signed.

Heading the list of prep players who have signed with the Coyotes is Aaron Brooks of Cajon High School in San Bernardino, the San Andreas League champions. At last report, Brooks was hitting .507 with nine homers and 40 runs batted in and posted a 7-1 record on the mound with a 1.07 ERA.

Also coming to CSUSB next year are:

n      Terrance Buchanan, a shortstop from Mount Carmel High School in San Diego, who hit .380 this year.

n      Andrew Harrison, a slugging first-baseman from Norte Vista HS in Riverside.

n      Matt Winn, an outfielder from Canyon Springs HS in Moreno Valley.

n      Darren Dworak, an infielder from Damien HS in LaVerne who batted. 494 with four home runs, 32 RBI, an .802 slugging percentage and a .560 on-base percentage with 28 runs scored.

n      Ken Othman, a catcher from Martin Luther King HS in Riverside, who is batting .465 with two homers, 23 RBI, a .597 slugging percentage and a .460 on-base percentage.