The 6-foot-6, left-handed pitcher died from cancer regard Monday after being diagnosed along with chronic myeloid leukemia in March of last year. Marling, that played for the Dartmouth Moosehead Dry, was among the best pitchers in the Nova Scotia Senior Baseball Leauge. He additionally offered as a coach along with the Saint Mary’s University Huskies baseball team.
River Ryan’s Chris Head, that was a teammate of Marling’s due to the fact that the lanky hurler joined the Dry spine in 2011, said it was constantly a pleasure to take the field along with the sizable lefty.
“He was precisely exactly what you wished in a teammate — he was a team-initial guy and was among those guys that was the initial to the field and the last to leave,” said Head, the NSSBL’s reigning and three-time many helpful player.
“He was constantly pretty involved along with every little thing and he was a difficult employee — he was constantly attempting to get hold of better.”
And Marling was good. great sufficient to strike out 248 batters in 252 routine period innings in between 2011 and 2015. He additionally fanned yet another 60 in 74 playoff innings, along with his last “K” coming in Dartmouth’s 2015 title-winning collection over the Truro Bearcats.
In fact, the 2013 and 2014 organization champ Sydney Sooners included Marling to their roster for the pair of national championships they competed in over the past 2 years.
Jim (Rico) McEachern, the longtime Sooners bench boss and a organization pioneer, said Marling was among the classiest users he encountered throughout his lifetime in the game.
“He owned such a friendly personality, he mixed along with our guys and it was enjoy an instant connection — I am sure that every man regard our group would certainly tell you he was a class act, a genuine competitor and among the genuine bright lights in our league,” said McEachern.
Tributes to Marling have actually additionally been popular regard social media. The SMU Huskies baseball posted a Facebook message that read: “Cam was the heart and soul of our regimen and touched so lots of lives in his time here. Not just was Cam an unbelieveable coach, yet he was a remarkable good friend and a beautiful person.”
As the NSSBL’s 2015 champions, Dartmouth will certainly represent Nova Scotia at the 2016 Canadian senior men’s baseball tournament in Fredericton in August.
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