http://www.registercitizen.com/articles/2013/05/09/sports/doc518c431ca3367497574818.txt
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HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL: First-year coach Jesse Darcy brings experience and energy to Lewis Mills
Published: Thursday, May 09, 2013
By Pete Paguaga
ppaguaga@registercitizen.com
@PetePaguaga on Twitter
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With a 10-3 record so far this season, first year head coach Jesse Darcy has the Lewis Mills Spartans baseball program riding high going into the final stretch of the regular season.
Darcy, who took over a program that finished with a 13-8 record last season, which lost in the second round of the Class M State Tournament to St. Joseph’s High School by the score of 6-0, is a former minor league baseball player and is currently a seventh grade math teacher at Harbor Middle School, who is in his first season as a high school head coach.
He grew up in Levittown, NY and played baseball at Division Avenue High School on Long Island before moving on to Manhattan College to play for the Jaspers.
After a very successful college career, where he was named team co-captain for the 2007 season, he was drafted by the then Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 38th round of the 2007 MLB Amateur Draft.
“I was released by the Rays after my third season, then I played for the Somerset Patriots,” said Darcy.
Four minor league seasons later, Darcy retired from the game of baseball and became a teacher.
“After my junior year I turned down free agent offers with the Mets and the Rays,” said Darcy. “I wanted to make sure I had a backup plan, I had my student teaching coming up that fall.”
He said he chose the right path.
“It was the toughest decision I ever had to make, and I had to make it on my birthday,” said Darcy. “But it was my best year that year, it was the better choice.”
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Darcy, Jesse [MC????]
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Dear John,
I believe that Jesse is a member of the Class of 2007.
Mike
McEneney, Mike (MC1953)
[JR: Thanks, Mike. Much appreciated.]
Darcy, Jesse [MC2007]
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