Oct. 17, 1997
Cuccias, Nady Invited to USA Baseball National Team Trials
Current University of California baseball players, sophomore reliever Jon Cuccias and freshman infielder Xavier Nady, are two of 66 players invited to the 1998 USA Baseball National Team Trials Nov. 5-9 in Tucson, AZ. The trials will be held at Hi Corbett Field, home of USA Baseball and the Cactus League spring training home of the Colorado Rockies.
Cuccias, a righthanded submarine pitcher from Woodland Hills, CA, was 2-0 with three saves and a team-leading 3.38 ERA for the Bears last season. Nady, the leading candidate to start at second base for Cal this spring, is from Salinas, CA and was a fourth-round draft pick by the St. Louis Cardinal in last June's amatuer baseball draft.
