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BC Pitcher Named John J. Claffey Most Outstanding Cape League Player From New England: The Rundown

In addition to earning the 2025 John J. Claffey award, this BC "Birdball" rising sophomore was named the Brewster Whitecaps' most valuable pitcher.
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After his first stint in the maroon and gold for the Boston College baseball program, rising sophomore pitcher Kyle Kipp is continuing to make New England proud during the college baseball offseason.

Kipp, a 6-foot-2, 200-pound right-handed pitcher from Stamford, Conn., was rostered by the Cape Cod Baseball League’s Brewster Whitecaps for the 2025 summer after a freshman campaign in which he struck out 25 batters in 27.1 innings for the Eagles. 

Kipp registered a 5.93 total ERA and earned a clutch win in the 2025 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament against Virginia with a three-inning, one-strikeout performance in which he earned zero runs.

But his performances for the Whitecaps this summer has shown a completely different side of Kipp. His dominance this season has not gone unnoticed, leading him to both a 2025 CCBL All-Star nod and the 2025 John J. Claffey award, annually presented to the most outstanding player in the Cape League from New England.

In 17⅓ innings for Brewster this summer, Kipp has not allowed a single earned run. In addition to earning the 2025 Claffey award, Kipp was named the Whitecaps’ pitcher of the year.

Also of note is that former BC outfielder Adam Magpoc was named the Whitecaps’ 2025 Most Valuable Player. After a terrific freshman-year campaign in which the Torrance, Calif. native manufactured a .288 batting average, good for second on the roster, Magpoc started nearly every game for the Eagles in 2025 despite seeing his offensive production dip slightly.

Magpoc transferred to San Diego State during the summer, with former BC assistant coach Kevin Vance, who was named the SDSU head baseball coach in July, likely playing a major role in his decision to leave the “Birdball” program in Chestnut Hill, Mass.

To add to his summer season heroics, Magpoc hit a walk-off, two-run home run in the Whitecaps’ final regular-season game of the 2025 summer, lifting Brewster over the Orleans Firebirds, 5-4, late on Sunday afternoon.

Today’s Schedule:

No games are scheduled for Monday, August 4.

Eagles Results:

No games were scheduled for Sunday, August 3.

Countdown to Boston College football’s season opener:

26 days.

Did You Notice?

  • The Boston College Eagles' football program is just one of two schools from the ACC in the history of the conference with three or more players who have received NFL contracts valued at $100 million or more.
  • With four-time All-Pro edge rusher Micah Parsons requesting a trade from the Dallas Cowboys this past week, former BC defensive end Donovan Ezeiruaku, the franchise's 2025 second-round pick, might see an increased workload when the NFL regular season starts. He is already showing what he is capable of at the Cowboys' training camp.
  • Boston College women's lacrosse assistant coach and former player Sam Apuzzo was named one of two captains for the USA lacrosse Women's National Team for The World Games 2025 Lacrosse Tournament.

Boston College Eagles Quote of the Day: 

"He'll give you a spin-o-rama, he'll look you off the puck, he's got great one-on-one moves Makes you wonder why [North America] can't produce more such creative players."

- Dave King on Brian Leetch

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Graham Dietz
GRAHAM DIETZ

Graham Dietz is a 2025 graduate of Boston College and subsequently joined Boston College On SI. He previously served as an editor for The Heights, the independent student newspaper, from fall 2021, including as Sports Editor from 2022-23. Graham works for The Boston Globe as a sports correspondent, covering high school football, girls' basketball, and baseball. He was also a beat writer for the Chatham Anglers of the Cape Cod Baseball League in the summer of 2023.

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