Two Polk County natives named Catawba athletes of the month

Published 10:59 am Friday, May 4, 2012

Two Polk County residents were named Athletes of the month at Catawba Valley Community College

Kailey Russell

for the month of April.
Danny Fraga, No. 2, for the Buccaneers baseball team helped lead the Bucs to a national ranking of No. 11. Fraga has played in 30 games with 43 hits, 13 stolen bases and 15 RBI’s.
He is currently ranked 44th in the nation in hitting (0.426) and 10th in the nation in on base percentage (57 percent).
Fraga is not only a standout on the field; he also excels in the classroom and in the community.
He is in the college transfer program at CVCC, with plans to attend a four-year university upon graduation from CVCC. Fraga works with the rest of the CVCC baseball

Danny Fraga

team in teaching baseball clinics to children in the community and has received several baseball scholarship offers.

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