Stan Jurkoic is in his 11th year as
the top assistant coach, and his first season as Associate Head
Coach, of the Franklin Pierce baseball team. Jurkoic joined the
Ravens for Jayson King's inaugural season as head coach, bringing
along a rich baseball background.
Jurkoic assists with game-day preparation as well as in-game
decision making. He also serves as the team's first base coach
during games and is the assistant director of Franklin Pierce
baseball summer camps and clinics.
Jurkoic's coaching career includes stints as an assistant coach at
the University of Massachusetts, as well as with the Keene Swamp
Bats of the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL). He has
also served as head coach for the Keene Blue Jays of the Northern
League.
Jurkoic, a native of North Walpole, was a former captain at the
University of New Hampshire. A pitcher and infielder, he was
selected to play in the prestigious New England All-Star game his
senior year.
Jurkoic earned his master's degree in sports management from
University of Massachusetts and currently resides in Keene.
Bob Mancini, Jr. is in his third
year as an assistant coach with the Franklin Pierce University
baseball team.
Prior to joining coach Jayson King's staff for the 2007 season,
Mancini played two seasons as a member of Franklin Pierce's junior
varsity baseball squad. Mancini also has head-coaching experience
as the skipper of the AAU Thunder U14 squad in Shrewsbury,
Mass.
Mancini graduated cum laude from Franklin Pierce in the spring of
2007. He was selected as a member of the National Collegiate Honor
Society in May 2006 and a member of Phi Theta Kappa beginning in
October of 2003.
Tyler Bishop is in his first season
as an assistant coach with the Franklin Pierce University baseball
team.
This is Bishop's first stop in the collegiate coaching ranks, as
he moves to the dugout after claiming three consecutive regional
titles on the field under Head Coach Jayson King.
Among Bishop's accomplishments as a player were All-Northeast
Region and First-Team All-Northeast-10 Conference selections as a
senior in 2008, in addition to a Second-Team All-Northeast-10
Conference selection as a junior in 2007. Bishop also collected
Northeast-10 Championships Most Valuable Player honors as a
senior.
As a senior, Bishop led the Ravens with 23 appearances on the hill
and posted a 6-3 record to go with a 2.25 ERA and .194 opponents'
batting average over 40 innings. For his career, Bishop pitched
84.1 innings over 53 appearances. He posted a 10-5 career record
and a 1.92 ERA and held opponents to a .186 batting average.
A two-way threat at times, Bishop also posted a .272 (33-for-121)
career batting average, including a junior season in which he hit
.421 (8-for-19).
Bishop originally hails from Milford, N.H.
Vinny Pennell is in his first
season as an assistant coach with the Franklin Pierce University
baseball team.
Pennell transitions to the dugout in 2009 after four years on the
field with the Ravens and a two-year stint in professional
baseball.
As a player at Franklin Pierce, Pennell captured regional titles
in both his junior and senior seasons. In a standout senior season
in 2007, he hit .342 (19-for-231), drove in 40 runs, slugged .472
and stole 27 bases. Over his four-year career in Rindge, Pennell
amassed a .322 batting average (250-for-776), drove in 114 runs and
scored 158 while playing in 215 games.
After finishing his career in 2007, Pennell signed a minor league
free-agent contract with the Kansas City Royals and played most of
the 2007 season with the Royals' rookie-league affiliate in the
Arizona League. Over 47 games, he posted a .279 batting average
(46-for-165) with six doubles, three triples, 20 runs batted in, 33
runs scored and 14 stolen bases. Pennell also collected two hits in
13 at-bats over five games with the Burlington Bees of the single-A
Midwest League in 2007.
Pennell played the 2008 season with the Nashua Pride of the Can-Am
League, where he hit .259 (86-for-332) with 11 doubles, two
triples, one home run, 25 runs batted in, 48 runs scored and 14
stolen bases over 85 games.
