Keith Moreland of the Bethesda Big Train has been selected as the 2004 Clark C. Griffith Collegiate Baseball League Player of the Week for July 9-16. Moreland, a right-handed pitcher, pitched the first no-hitter in the CGCBL this season and the fourth in the six-year history of the Big Train in an 8-0 victory over the Baltimore Pride in the second game of a doubleheader on July 14. It was the first no-hitter in the league since Bethesda’s Mark Galvin pitched a seven-inning no-hitter in a 5-0 win over the Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts on July 27, 2001. Moreland walked the first batter he faced, then got a double-play grounder and proceeded to retire the next 22 Pride batters in a row. He walked another batter in the ninth inning and finished the game with two walks and seven strikeouts. Moreland made his first two starts of the season last week, adding a 12-1 victory over the Reston Hawks on July 9 as he allowed six hits, one earned run, walked none and struck out five in seven innings. For the season, he is 5-0 with a 0.83 earned run average in eight appearances (two starts), allowing 17 hits in 32.2 innings with 8 walks and 30 strikeouts. He leads the CGCBL in wins and ERA, and opponents are batting just .156 against him.

BACKGROUND: Recently completed senior season at St. John’s College High School in Washington, D.C. … Will attend University of North Carolina at Charlotte, a NCAA Division I institution in Charlotte, N.C. … In 2004, helped lead St. John’s to a runner-up finish in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference … Earned All-Metropolitan Washington honors (by The Washington Post) at first base after batting .374 with six home runs and 25 RBI … Also was 6-3 with a 1.41 ERA as a pitcher … Struck out 59 and walked just 10 … Native of Silver Spring, Md. … First season in CGCBL.

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