FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 18, 2004

Eric Gibree to Captain
Rhode Island College Baseball Team

Providence, RI—Rhode Island College senior Eric Gibree (Bristol, RI) will captain the Anchormen baseball team for the 2004 season.

Gibree, a first baseman, has played in seven games, starting six of them, this season. He is leading the team in batting with a .556 average. He currently has ten hits, one double, one home run, three runs scored and seven RBI. Gibree owns a .778 slugging percentage, a .609 on-base percentage and a 1.000 fielding percentage. With his ten hits this season, Gibree is now just four hits shy of the RIC all-time record of hits in a career (157).

He is a communications major and a 1999 graduate of La Salle High School.

Head Coach Jay Grenier’s team opened the season in Florida playing nine games at the Clearwater Invitational. The squad finished the trip with a 5-4 record versus competition which included three nationally ranked teams.

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