The Wolcott Storm won’t be the only team with a local edge to it at the Mickey Mantle World Series (16U) on Thursday.
The CT Edge of Meriden also has some familiar names on its roster.
Connor Goggin, Jack Drewry, Julian Thayer and Ernest McClary will take the field for CT Edge. Goggin plays his high school ball for Holy Cross, Drewry is at Wolcott, Thayer at St. Paul, and McClary at Sacred Heart.
Goggin was part of the first state championship in Holy Cross baseball history. Drewry was part of the 2016 Wolcott state championship team as a freshman. Thayer was a big part of the success of his St. Paul team this spring. McClary was a first baseman and big bat in the middle of the lineup.
SCHEDULE
There are three Connecticut-based teams in the field of 16 for this year’s Mickey Mantle World Series. Games begin on Wednesday at Municipal Stadium in Waterbury, Fuessenich Park in Torrington, Newtown High School and Bethel’s Hunt Field. The third Connecticut team is the Northwest Orioles.
The Wolcott Storm are in Pool 1 and open play Wednesday against Mission Baseball of Tulsa, Okla., at noon at Municipal.
CT Edge is in Pool 3 and begins Wednesday against the DFW Twins of the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, area at 8:30 a.m. at Newtown.
Each team has a second game in pool play Wednesday, then one more on Thursday. At 9 a.m. on Thursday, the CT Edge play the Northwest Orioles at Hunt Field.
The double elimination portion of the tournament begins Thursday.
SCHEDULE: Click here to see the full slate of games.
