As we already know, Donald Brown made UConn Huskies football history by becoming the highest player ever drafted from UConn when the Indianapolis Colts took him with the 27th overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft.
Here is the video to relive this historical moment:
[youtube width=”480″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGcp5t8cDDA[/youtube]
And here is a video interview with Rece Davis of ESPN.
Destination Red Sox Nation is our look at how the minor league teams of the Boston Red Sox fare each night. Game story and box score links as well as links to team rosters, team stats and league standings are after the jump.
As we already know, UConn Huskies cornerback Darius Butler went to the New England Patriots with the 41st overall pick (2nd round) in the NFL Draft yesterday.
Here’s the video of his selection.
[youtube width=”480″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiDehJyu5-8[/youtube]
The transcript from his conference call with the media after the jump.
If you wanted to see bad starting pitching, lots of home runs, some defensive miscues, a bad outing again from the Yankees bullpen, Fenway Park was the place to be this afternoon.
After trailing 6-0, the Red Sox rallied to take the lead only to lose only to rally again and in the end they walked away 16-11 winners over the Yankees in front of 37,699 on an absolutely gorgeous day for baseball at the Fens.
It’s the 9th straight win for the Red Sox after starting the season 2-6 while the Yankees fall to 9-8. The Red Sox are now just a game back of the Toronto Blue Jays (13-6) in the AL East standings while the Yanks are in 3rd.
With Josh Beckett and A.J. Burnett on the mound today, you would have expected to see a pitcher’s duel. It was far from that from Beckett while for the first three innings, Burnett was dominating the Red Sox like he’s done all through his career.
Beckett went 5 innings, allowing 8 runs on 10 hits and 4 walks with 3 strikeouts. Burnett went 5 innings, giving up 8 runs on 8 hits and 4 walks with 3 strikeouts.
It came down to the bullpens again and while the Red Sox bullpen was touched up for 3 runs (1 earned), it was the Yankees bullpen that once again faltered giving up 8 runs (all earned) over the final 3 innings.
Manny Delcarmen worked 1 2/3 innings for the Red Sox, giving up 2 runs (none were earned) on 3 hits and recorded 3 strikeouts. Hideki Okajima went 2/3 of an inning, allowing a run on a hit and a walk while Ramon Ramirez also went 2/3 of an inning, giving up a hit and a walk. Jonathan Papelbon finished it off for the Red Sox, walking two and striking out one in the 9th.
Mike Lowell was the man for the Red Sox this afternoon, driving in 6 runs on 2 hits. His two hits were a 3-run homer and 3-run double. Jason Varitek helped the Red Sox get back into the game with a grand slam, his fourth homer of the year. Jason Bay continues to swing a hot stick as he was 2-for-3 with 2 RBIs and 2 walks, one of the intentional variety while Kevin Youkilis. also had 2 hits.
Dustin Pedroia reached base all 5 times he was up (3 hits, 2 walks) and added an RBI. Jacoby Ellsbury also had 2 hits including a solo home run to tie the game and an RBI and David Ortiz added an RBI to the cause for the local nine as well.
Johnny Damon got things started for the Yankees in top half of the 1st with a one out single. Beckett then walked Mark Teixeira and gave up a single to Nick Swisher that drove in Damon to give the Yanks a 1-0 lead. Robinson Cano flew out but Jorge Posada singled in Teixeira for a 2-0 lead. Beckett left them stranded on the basepaths when he got Hideki Matsui grounded out to Youkilis at first.
Burnett worked around a single to Pedroia in the 1st and a walk to J.D. Drew in the 2nd while Beckett had an easy 2nd as well.
[youtube width=”480″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQHj0EbHGog[/youtube]
It’s been a banner day for the UConn Huskies football program as they now have had 4 players drafted in the first two rounds of this year’s draft.
Defensive End/Outside linebacker Cody Brown made it 4 Huskies when the Arizona Cardinals took him with the 63rd overall pick (2nd round).
Brown played defensive end at UConn but is considered a hybrid player. He’ll most likely play the outside linebacker in the NFL.
What a day for the Huskies. This should do wonders with recruiting in the coming years.
Make that three players drafted for the UConn Huskies football team on the first day of the 2009 NFL Draft.
With the 60th pick in the draft (2nd round), the New York Giants took offensive lineman Will Beatty.
Beatty burst on to the scene at UConn over the last two years and anchored the offensive line that helped now Indianapolis Colt running back Donald Brown lead the nation in rushing.
The New England Patriots got some offensive line help tonight when they took Houston Cougars offensive lineman Sebastian Vollmer with the 58th overall pick (2nd round).
UConn Huskies cornerback Darius Butler won’t have to go far to play in the NFL as the New England Patriots took him with the 41st overall pick (2nd round).
Butler will give them help at the cornerback position and could also provide some depth on kickoff and punt returns.
He is the 2nd UConn player drafted today. His teammate Donald Brown was selected 27th overall by the Indianapolis Colts. UConn offensive lineman Will Beatty is also expected to get drafted at some point today as well.
With the 40th overall pick (2nd round), the New England Patriots have selected defensive lineman Ron Brace from the Boston College Eagles.
The Patriots traded up to the 40th spot to get him with the Oakland Raiders their #47 and #124 and #199.