Baseball's Lapolla Signs With Olean Oilers for Summer of 2015

Baseball's Lapolla Signs With Olean Oilers for Summer of 2015

Junior Jon Lapolla (Providence, R.I.) has a signed with the Olean Oilers of the New York Collegiate Baseball League (NYCBL) for the 2015 summer season.

The Oilers will play a 46-game schedule through the summer running through the end of July in the wood-bat summer collegiate league.

In 2012 the Olean Oilers team was reinvented, however this time as a collegiate, wood bat development team with the NYCBL (New York Collegiate Baseball League) which is affiliated with Major League Baseball.

The Olean Oilers were originally a minor league baseball team that played in the New York-Pennsylvania League from 1939-1951 and from 1955-1958.  During 1939-1956 the Oilers played in the Pennsylvania-Ontario-New York League.  The minor league team was affiliated with the Brooklyn Dodgers, the St. Louis Browns and the Philadephia Phillies.

Lapolla was named a third team selection at catcher by the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC). Lapolla led Suffolk with a .291 batting average (32-for-110) and .455 slugging percentage (13 extra base hits). He tore through GNAC pitching on the season hitting at a .472 clip in conference play. Lapolla's .429 on-base percentage led Suffolk on the season while he ranks third among GNAC players. He has walked 23 times on the year to go along with a team-high ten doubles, a triple and a home run.