Received this press release from the Southern Connecticut Diamond Club today:

The Southern Connecticut Diamond Club will honor 35 area high school baseball players at its annual awards banquet on Sunday, June 5, at Monticello’s Restaurant in Meriden. The 2011 honorees are listed below.


Each player will be presented with the John “Whitey” Piurek “There’s No ‘I’ In Team” Award. Named for the longtime West Haven High coach, the honor is awarded to the member of each team who gives most unselfishly to his program.

In addition to the Piurek awards, the club will present the Samuel Burrell Jr. Coach of the Year award to Billy Mitchell of North Branford High School. Also, the George Klivak Team of the Year will be presented to Branford High School. Both awards are voted on by the area coaches and members of the SCDC. In addition, a special recognition plaque will be presented to Coach Bob DeMayo of North Haven High School for achieving 800 victories.

A buffet dinner will be served beginning at 5 p.m. Monticello’s is located at 577 S.Broad Street in Meriden. Anyone wishing to join the Diamond Club or purchase dinner tickets at $25 each should contact banquet chair Rose Mentone at 203-281-3897 or rmentone@comcast.net. For more information about the organization, visit www.southernctdiamondclub.org.

Amity (Woodbrige)............ Anthony Faggiana
Ansonia…………………...Alex Chosczyk
Branford..............................Joe Massey
North Branford……............Taylor Gamache
Career (New Haven) ...........Juliano Nieves
North Haven……….............Brian Sica
Cheshire...............................Greg Leonetti
Notre Dame (West Haven)..Matthew Biondi
O’Brien RVTS…….............Nick Ascencao
Cross(New Haven)...............Neftali Arroyo
Old Saybrook………...........Joe Ferrantelli
Derby...................................Adam Greenhill
East Haven ..........................Adam Poulin
Fairfield Prep ……………...Alex Heimman
Foran (Milford) ...................Steven Polito
Guilford ............................... Austin Braumann
Hamden Hall ....................... Marco Gasparro
Hamden ...............................Don Pfeiffer
Hand (Madison) ...................Brian Heflin
Hillhouse (New Haven)..........Lazaro Barrios
Hopkins (New Haven) ..........Matt Luciani
Hyde (New Haven) ...............Will Nieves
Law (Milford).........................Max Nowicki
Lyman Hall (Wallingford) .......Billy Graeb
Lyme-Old Lyme…………….Wyatt Stanland
Morgan……………………..Nate Calini
Platt (Meriden)……...............Daniel Mroczka
Platt RVTS………................Peter Brauer
Sheehan (Wallingford)……...Mark Brennan
Shelton …………................Dan McCue
Xavier …………..................Steven Lockman
Westbrook ………..............Cody Forrest
West Haven………..............Jeff Hill