Apex and UNC-Chapel Hill graduate Tim Federowicz was shipped from the Boston Red Sox's minor league system to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Federowicz was traded in a three-team trade that sent Erik Bedard from the Seattle Mariners to Boston.

Baseball America ranked Federowicz, 23, the 21st best prospect in the Red Sox organization before the season. He hit .277 with eight homers and 52 RBIs for double-A Portland.

Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti told the Los Angeles Times: "We needed catching, and we feel we have a real good one coming."

The LA Times also reported Colletti as saying that Federowicz would likely play for the Dodgers' triple-A affiliate in Albuquerque for the rest of this season before having the chance to play in the majors next season.

Hall is new PC coach: Panther Creek announced Friday that it has hired Daniel Hall as varsity baseball coach. Hall becomes the second coach in Catamounts school history after Harry Jones took the Broughton head coaching job in late July.

Hall has been a teacher and coach in the Durham and Orange County public school systems for the last 11 years. He has been the lead assistant baseball coach at Jordan and Orange high schools.

CCSSL all-stars named: The Central Carolina Scholastic Summer League named its north and south teams for the Futures and All-Star games, which will be played Aug. 7 at a site to be determined.

With the exception of two underclassmen, the all-star game consists of entirely rising seniors who earned the recognition of the league's coaches.

The futures game is intended to showcase rising freshmen, sophomores and juniors.

The area players named to the futures game were: Fuquay-Varina's Brett Daniels, Brian Mitchell, D.J. Burt and Garrett Suggs; Holly Springs' Trey Cobb; Apex's Alex Yarem and Gavin Locklear, Cary Academy's Zack Layne; and Middle Creek's Keenan Herring.

Earning the nod for the all-star game were: Fuquay-Varina's Addison Braswell and Kyle Boraski; Apex's Keaton Oaks, Kyle May and Austin Debevec; Holly Springs' Mike and Joey Roach; Wake Christian's Ronnie Hatfield; Cary Academy's Noah Greenblatt and Eric Fisher; and Middle Creek junior Graham Edwards.