The Road to Camden Yards

July 12, 2016 Posted by Matt Pencek Featured Sports, National Sports, Regional Sports, Shorebirds

One of the first stops for those in the Orioles farm system is Delmarva playing for the Shorebirds. Before he was an American League All-Star, Manny Machado was a South Atlantic League All-Star with the Birds.

Infielder Jonathan Schoop was with Machado on the Shorebirds in 2011. “We were there together and now we’re here together it helped us a lot,” Schoop said. “It helps that this is the same baseball but at a higher level.”

Even though the Shorebirds are in a prime vacation area, there were few opportunities to take advantage of the area.

“I really did not get to do a whole lot of that or go anywhere as far as Ocean City,” pitcher Dylan Bundy said. “My buddy and I found a couple of trails just a couple of miles from our apartment and we would trail ride a little bit before we had to report to the field.”

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Matt joined WBOC in October 2015 as a Sports Broadcast Journalist. He is a native of Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania. Matt graduated from Penn State where he received a bachelor’s degree in journalism. He started his broadcast career as the news/sports director of WEMR AM 1460 in his hometown of Tunkhannock. Matt held that same position for WALI/WROG radio in Cumberland, MD. His first television position was as the weekend sports anchor at WHAG-TV in Hagerstown, MD where he eventually became the Sports Director. Matt then moved to Florence, SC to become a sports reporter/anchor for WPDE-TV In 2011 along with his brother David, Matt co-authored The Great Book of Penn State Sports Lists. From 2012 – 2015 he was the lead radio play-by-play voice for The Friday Night High School Football Game of the Week for DE FOX Sports 1290 in Wilmington, DE. The last 2 years at the radio station Matt was the studio host during the University of Delaware Football radio broadcasts. He has also called the action for the both the Blue Hens men’s and women’s basketball teams. Outside of work, Matt is married to his wife Shannon and has two sons; Jack and Connor. E-mail Matt Pencek at mpencek@wboc.com and follow him on Twitter @mattpencek_wboc. Check out all stories by Matt.