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Over the coming months, Prep Baseball Report Virginia/DC will take a look back at the 2015 season for each school that finished the spring in the final 2015 Power 25. In each article, we will not only recap the successful seasons of these 40 schools, but highlight the individuals who drove that success and preview what the outlook is for each team in 2016.

9. stone bridge bulldogs

 

+Season Recap:

Stone Bridge captured the Conference 14, 5A Northern Region, and 5A State Championship to cap off an outstanding 2015 season that saw the Bulldogs win all seven of their playoff games and finish the season 23-6 overall. The championship was the school’s first baseball State Championship since it opened in 2000. The Bulldogs held their opponents to one or fewer runs 13 times in 2015.

+Key Performers:

+John Callahan: (MIF, 2016, George Mason) Callahan led the team in hits with 12 and runs scored, with 10, in the postseason while playing very good defense up the middle and covering a lot of ground. Callahan is ranked 24^th overall in the Virginia/DC Class of 2016 Rankings.

+David Mocabee: (3B/RHP, 2016, James Madison) Callahan drove in ten runs in the post season to lead the team and played a very good third base all season. Mocabee also contributed to the Bulldogs’ dominant pitching staff as the number two starter most of the season. Mocabee is the fifth ranked third baseman and is ranked 50^th overall in the Class of 2016.

+Brett Kreyer: (LHP, 2016, Lafayette) Kreyer was the ace of the Bulldogs’ staff and led the way on the mound with a 0.00 ERA in postseason play over 22.2 innings pitched capped off by a complete game shutout in the State Championship game. Kreyer finished the season on a streak of five straight starts without allowing an earned run, four of which he completed shutouts. Kreyer is the 69^th ranked player in the Class of 2016 and is the ninth ranked lefthander.

+Michael Kuzbel: (OF, 2015, Columbia) Kuzbel’s bat was hot during the postseason run as had seven hits over the course of the State Championship run.

+Elijah Quiceno: (C, 2016, Gannon) Quiceno also added seven hits during the postseason while doing an outstanding job of handlling the Bulldog pitching staff. Quiceno deserves some of the credit for the pitching staff’s success, as his skill at receiving and presenting pitches to umpires stole a lot of strikes for the Stone Bridge pitching staff. Quiceno is ranked 57^th in the Class of 2016.

+2016 Outlook:

The 2016 Bulldogs will have a strong team coming back in new head coach Andrew Baird’s first season at the helm. Kreyer will be back in his role of ace with help coming from Mocabee, Lawton Riggs (RHP, 2016), and Gary Fuller (RHP, 2017) ranked #37 in the Class of 2017. The lineup will again be built around Callahan, Mocabee, and Quiceno along with Dylan Beck (MIF, 2016, Hood), Joshua Greenberg (OF, 2016), Matt Fialdini (C/OF, 2016), and a good core of talented juniors. The Bulldogs will have one of the more talented squads in the 5A North and will enter the season as one of the early favorites to defend their 5A State Championship.