University of Richmond Athletics
Three Spiders Picked In The 2007 MLB Draft
06/08/2007 | Baseball
Mahoney was selected by the Orioles with the 189th overall pick and was the fifth first baseman taken in the draft. He was the O's fourth overall pick. The native of Troy, N.Y. was named Second Team All-Atlantic 10 at first base and led the conference with 17 home runs, while finishing third with 62 RBIs. The junior slugged .593 overall and .587 in conference play, while also stealing a career-high 16 bases in 19 attempts.
His selection in the sixth round represents the highest Spider drafted since Tim Stauffer went to San Diego with the fourth-overall pick in the 2003 draft. Just six Spiders in the last 11 years, including Sean Casey in the second round in 1995, have gone higher than Mahoney.
Hale went to the Angels with the 1316th selection. The junior right-handed pitcher from Omaha, Neb. was Richmond's leader with eight wins, 93 strikeouts and 93.1 innings pitched. Also a Second Team All-Conference selection, Hale was 6-1 against the A-10, which included a 7.1 inning, six strikeout, one earned run performance in the Spiders' A-10 Championship first-round win over St. Bonaventure. A catcher up until the middle of last season, Hale owned an impressive strikeout-to-walk ratio of +2.30 and a 4.53 ERA.
Falasco went to the Angels with the 1387th pick. He is a 6-4, 180-pound hard-throwing right-handed pitcher from Seminole High School in Seminole, Fla. Falasco is a two-way player who batted .463 as a junior and can play both the infield and outfield. Seminole was 22-5 this season and reached the Florida state tournament regional quarterfinals.
The Spiders finished 2007 with a 32-28 record and were a win shy of reaching the A-10 Championship game.
