DAI RESTORE LEAK OF THE WEEK
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Chuck Paiva
February 12, 2022 General Manager
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DAI RESTORE LEAK OF THE WEEK
Dartmouth College Teammates Sign with Gulls
Written By: Darren Katziff
NEWPORT, RI— Dartmouth College teammates RHP Tyler Cortland of Farmington, CT and OF Kolton Freeman, a native of Laguna Beach, California will be spending the summer in Newport and are the third DAI Restore Leak of the Week.
Although a sophomore academically, unfortunately, Cortland has not played a game for the Big Green yet, as the Ivy League chose to forgo their 2021 Spring Season due to concerns of COVID-19. He is a promising 6’4” righty that shined at Farmington High School in both baseball and basketball. Although his senior year of high school was also cut short due to the pandemic, his junior year was stellar. He posted a 2.77 ERA on the mound and hit .448 for the Farmington RiverHawks. That winter he led his basketball team to a 23-4 record and a Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference Division III championship.
Despite not being able to play at Dartmouth in the spring, he took advantage of the opportunity to play for the Sag Harbor Whalers of the Hamptons Collegiate League during the summer of 2021. While competing for Sag Harbor, Cortland put together an All-Star worthy season, throwing in five regular season games and posting a 2.34 ERA to go along with nearly one strikeout per inning (23 IP, 22K) and just six walks. His performance landed him on the All-Hamptons League Second Team.
Teammate Kolton Freeman has also seen limited collegiate action over the past few years as his freshman campaign lasted just seven games before being canceled due to COVID-19 in 2020 and not playing at all in 2021. He started six of Dartmouth’s seven games as a freshman and was leading the team in RBI (5) and had a .611 slugging percentage. He collected a triple and scored twice in a 6-2 win against Chicago State that season, and in his final game before the sudden conclusion of the season, Freeman went 2 for 4 with his first collegiate home run at #17 ranked Virginia. Before Dartmouth, Freeman was a team captain at Laguna Beach High School where he earned Second-Team All-League honors as both a sophomore and senior. In his freshman year with the team he helped his school win the California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section Championship, finishing with a 25-10 record.
Freeman also played summer baseball in 2021, joining the Orange County Riptide in his home state California Collegiate League. He finished his summer hitting .304 with six doubles and 19 runs scored in 29 games played.
The Dartmouth Big Green begin their season at Louisville on February 25 where Cortland and Freeman will square off against future Gulls teammates Trevor Amburgey, Seamus Barrett, and Eddie King Jr. Cortland and Freeman look to be significant assets both on the mound and in the outfield for a Dartmouth team that hasn’t played a full season since 2019.
The Newport Gulls look forward to having Cortland and Freeman this summer and wish them the best of luck this spring season.
This Roster Leak of the Week is Presented by DAI Restore. DAI’s mission is to perform advanced restoration and cleaning techniques with highly trained technicians, ethics, and honesty. The DAI Team has provided Restoration Services to their clients for nearly three decades. Fire, smoke, water, mold, trauma, and more, DAI DOES THAT.
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The Newport Gulls, members of the 13-team New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL), are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, founded as the Rhode Island Gulls in 1998 in Cranston, R.I., before moving to Newport in 2001. In addition to recruiting, fielding, and developing a team of the nation’s top collegiate baseball athletes and attracting 50,000 fans annually to Cardines Field, the predominantly volunteer organization strives to benefit the community of Newport County via summer camps, reading programs, fundraisers, scholarships, and charitable donations – totaling over $1 million since 2001. The Gulls are six-time champions of the NECBL – the winningest franchise in league history – and were ranked as the overall No. 1 summer collegiate baseball team in the country by Perfect Game USA in 2012.
