Costa Christo Kapothanasis is an

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-born

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player. He is a pitcher for the Panathinaikos Baseball Club which is a member team of the

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. He was 3-1 with a 6.29 ERA as a Division I freshman then improved to 2-2, 6.17 in his second campaign, and 4-3, 5.06 as a junior. He fell to 2-7, 6.68 his senior year. Kapothanasis then joined the Greek National Baseball team for the

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going 1-3 with a win over

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. He beat

in his debut but lost to

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(on a bases-loaded walk to Ludwig Glaser and

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. Kapothanasis also played for Greece in the

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, doing much better. He held the Greek lead with four appearances and tossed 7 1/3 shutout innings, getting the save in the 7th/8th place game over

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. He was 5th in ERA for the

, behind four other players with also no earned runs, but with more innings. Kapothanasis was also on the

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roster for the Panama

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. Kapothanasis played independent minor league baseball for the Albany Quails of the

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(1-3, 4.43 in 2010) and the Pensacola Pelicans of the American Association. Kapothanasis will be pitching for the Greek National Baseball in Prague, Czech Republic, for the

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Sources

Mount St. Mary's bio

Greek Baseball Federation

Panathinaikos Baseball Club

2010 Euros

2012 Euros

2014 European Baseball Championship

Portland Press Herald
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