Travis Jankowski batted .346 in eight games for the Bourne Braves, who finished with the Western Division crown behind a 24-20 record. Meantime, pitcher Gabe Shaw earned two wins and a save to help the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox to the Eastern Division title and best record in the league at 27-17. Each team took the top seed heading into the postseason division series, but only Shaw's team survived the first round by sweeping their opponent.
For Jankowski, who batted .484 in 40 games for the Bobcats in the KIT League, the season ended with a disappointing showing by the Braves in the playoffs. The Braves dropped the first game of the best-of-three series with the Wareham Gatemen 9-5 and fell short in 11 innings on Saturday in a 3-2 loss to hand the series to the Gatemen. Jankowski, a native of Lancaster, Pa. and an outfielder from Stony Brook University in New York, went 1-for-5 in each of the Braves' losses and scored one of the team's two runs in Saturday's loss.
Shaw, a native of Paducah, Ky., earned a complete-game win for the Bobcats in his only time on the mound for Marion. For the Red Sox, the University of Louisville right-hander took a 2.70 ERA into the postseason series with the Harwich Mariners and pitched a perfect inning Saturday to wrap up the divisional series with a 6-1 win. The Red Sox will next face on Monday the winner of the Orleans-Brewster series which concludes Sunday.
The Cape Cod Baseball League is America's top amateur baseball league and gives the brightest prospects a large stage on which to perform each summer. Some Major Leaguers who have played in the Cape Cod League include Thurmon Munson, Robin Ventura, Jeff Reardon, Nomar Garciaparra, Buck Showalter, Will Clark, Joe Magrane and Sean Casey.
