University of North Carolina Athletics
Carolina Baseball Adds Seven Fall Signees
December 8, 2004 | Baseball
Dec. 8, 2004
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - The University of North Carolina baseball team inked seven prep standouts, including five ranked among the top 20 players in their respective home states, to National Letters of Intent during the fall signing period, Tar Heel head coach Mike Fox announced Wednesday.
A pair of pitchers highlight the class, as Steve Garrison (Ewing, N.J.) and Adam Warren (New Bern, N.C.) are both ranked among the nation's best high school senior hurlers by Team One Baseball. Warren, a right-hander from New Bern High School, is rated No. 97 overall in Team One's Top-200 High School Senior Prospects. He is also ranked as the nation's No. 35 prep righty and the No. 6 player in North Carolina in the November 2004 edition of The Scouting Report produced by Baseball America and Perfect Game USA. Garrison, who attends the Hun School in Ewing, N.J., is ranked as the No. 38 high school left-hander by Team One. He is the No. 5 player in New Jersey according to The Scouting Report.
The Tar Heels also landed the No. 8 player from New York in Nate Lape, an outfielder from Friends Academy in Huntington, N.Y. Lape's mother and brother attended Carolina.
Two more top-20 prospects from North Carolina - Shallotte's Matt Cox, a left-handed pitcher/first baseman out of West Brunswick High School, and Apex High School catcher Tim Federowicz - are also headed to Chapel Hill. Cox is ranked at No. 16, and Federowicz is No. 19 on The Scouting Report's list of the top 30 prep players in North Carolina. Cox is expected to get a look as a two-way player at the college level.
Impact Baseball also ranks Warren (No. 3), Federowicz (No. 13) and Cox (No. 15) among its top 25 players in North Carolina.
Also joining the Tar Heels for 2006 are Mike Cavasinni, an outfielder from North Mecklenburg High School in Huntersville, N.C., and Brian Farrell, a left-hander from Ridgewood High School in Ridgewood, N.J. Cavasinni is one of the fastest players signed by the Tar Heels in recent years, while Farrell played with the well-known Bayside Yankees summer team.
"We are very pleased with the outstanding young men that we were able to sign during the November signing period," said Fox. "Coach Holbrook, Coach Williams and Coach Marconi did an excellent job with this class. It is our goal each and every year to attract quality players and students to our program, and we believe we have done that with this group."
"In signing two outfielders, one catcher and four pitchers we feel we met our needs for the future," added Fox. "Each of these student-athletes will play a vital role in the future of our program, and we look forward to having them all on campus in the fall of 2005."
Four of the Tar Heels seven newcomers hail from North Carolina, while the remaining three are from the Northeast - two from New Jersey and one from New York. Carolina signed four pitchers, two outfielders and a catcher.
2004 NORTH CAROLINA BASEBALL FALL SIGNEES
Mike Cavasinni, OF, 5-7, 150, Huntersville, N.C., North Mecklenburg
Matt Cox, LHP/1B, 6-2, 190, Shallotte, N.C., West Brunswick
rian Farrell, LHP, 6-3, 190, Ridgewood, N.J., Ridgewood
Tim Federowicz, C, 5-11, 185, Apex, N.C., Apex
Steve Garrison, LHP, 6-1, 190, Ewing, N.J., The Hun School
Nate Lape, OF, 6-5, 200, Huntington, N.Y., Friends Academy
Adam Warren, RHP, 6-1, 190, New Bern, N.C., New Bern
