Several players with local connections were selected yesterday in the second day of the Major League Baseball amateur draft.

The earliest selection was Duquesne University pitcher and Schenley High School graduate Keith Meyer, a right-hander who was taken in the 15th round by the Seattle Mariners. Meyer became the seventh player in school history to be selected in the draft.

Meyer was 1-2 with four saves and a 7.00 earned run average this season, appeared in a school-record 27 games and had 18 strikeouts in 29 innings to go with 18 walks and eight wild pitches. He is the first Duquesne player to be drafted since the Pirates took Dan Schwartzbauer in the 41st round in 2004.

Meyer's 15th-round selection is the second-highest for a Duquesne player. B.J. Barns went to the Pirates in the sixth round in 1999.

In the 17th round, the Chicago White Sox picked East Carolina shortstop Dale Mollenhauer, a Pine-Richland High School graduate.

Two Pitt right-handed pitchers were chosen. Kyle Landis was the 18th-round pick of the Cleveland Indians and Paul Nardozzi was chosen by Detroit in the 31st. Outfielder Jordan Herr went in the 41st to the Chicago Cubs.

Chad Rice, a Brownsville High School graduate and shortstop at Virginia Military Institute was selected in the 24th round by the Pirates, and Rick Austin, a North Hills High School graduate and Seton Hill right-handed pitcher, was chosen in the 27th by the Philadelphia Phillies, becoming the first player in Seton Hill history to get drafted.

In the 30th round, the Toronto Blue Jays chose David Kaye, a Riverview High School left-handed pitcher and the WPIAL strikeout leader this season. Dom Duggan, a center fielder from Coastal Carolina via Seneca Valley High School went in Round 32 to the San Francisco Giants. In Round 38, Warren Schaeffer, a Virginia Tech shortstop who went to Kiski Area, was chosen by the Colorado Rockies.

An intriguing pick was turned in by the Los Angeles Angels in the 27th round. They selected West Virginia football quarterback Pat White, who has not played college baseball.

He was a pitcher/outfielder on two state championship teams while in high school in Daphne, Ala. and was previously selected by the Angels in the fourth round out of high school.