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Severino-Draft & World Series | Adan Severino Enjoying Success | | Former Seahawk helps earn berth to play in NCAA College World Series in the same week he was drafted by the Minnesota Twins |  | Coral Gables--Former BCC Seahawk Adan Severino has continued his successful baseball career at the University of Miami and has helped lead them to the NCAA College World Series.
The outfielder, who was part of the 2006 BCC NJCAA World Series team hopes to help lead the Hurricanes to their first championship since 2001. This is the 11th trip for the hurricanes | in the last 15 years under coach Jim Morris.
The advancement to the world series comes in the wake of Severino being selected in the MLB First-Year Player Draft on June 6. Severino was selected in the 26th round by the Minnesota Twins as the 786th pick overall. He hit .317 with 46 hits in 51 games in his first season with Miami. He homered four times and drove in 21 runs.
Severino was also selected by the Chicago White Sox in the 2006 Amateur Draft while playing at Broward Community College. That year he batted a team-high .440 (37 for 84) with 11 doubles, two triples, one home run, 12 bases on balls, three hit-by-pitches, 20 RBI, 25 runs scored and three stolen bases in 35 games played. He posted team-highs in slugging percentage (.655) and on-base percentage (.520) and finished the regular season ranked first in the FCCAA in hitting (.471) all while helping Broward to state championship.
In his sophomore year, Severino hit .344 with 23 RBI, three home runs and three stolen bases. |
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