The University of Mississippi Athletics
Kielty Wins Cape Cod League Batting Crown
6/21/1999 | Baseball
August 7, 1998
BOSTON - Ole Miss outfielder Bobby Kielty won the Cape Cod Baseball League's batting crown with a .384 batting average, edging out UCLA's Garrett Atkins by a single point.
The senior-to-be outfielder also led the Cape Cod League in RBIs with 45 and was one home run shy of winning the triple crown. Kielty finished tied for third in home runs with six, one behind co-leaders Edmund Muth, of Stanford, and Daylan Holt, of Texas A&M.
A switch hitter, Kielty made a late-season bid to become just the second player since the Cape Cod League switched to wooden bats in 1985 to hit .400 for the season. He took a .406 average heading into last Saturday's All-Star Game where he collected two hits and earned the save before seeing his average drop to .384.
Kielty helped his team, the Brewster Whitecaps, finish with a 26-16-1 record and in first-place in the Eastern Division. Brewster opens the first-round of the Cape Cod League playoffs today against Chatham.
Rebel pitcher Jeff McAvoy, who joined Brewster last week, will start in the first game of the best-of-three series. In McAvoy's only start of the summer last week, he pitched six strong innings, allowing two earned runs on five hits and three walks while striking out five.
