Coaching Staff

Scott Landers returns as the Braves' Field Manager for his fifth season after leading the Braves to Cape Cod Baseball League titles in 2022, 2023, and 2025. Since taking the reins in Bourne, Landers has guided the Braves to four-straight championship appearances. He amassed a record of 87-68-13 in that time, winning the West Division twice (2022, 2025) and the Presidents’ trophy in 2022.

Landers has been the Baseball Head Coach / Strength and Conditioning Coordinator at SUNY Oswego since 2011, earning ABCA regional coach of the year awards in 2017, 2018, and 2022. He joined the Laker staff after serving as the assistant coach at NCAA Division I Le Moyne College for the prior nine seasons.

Landers served as the pitching coach for the Brewster Whitecaps in 2020. The Whitecaps allowed the second-fewest earned runs (119) in 304 1/3 innings during the regular season, good for an ERA of 3.52. The Whitecaps also gave up the second-fewest hits (258), ranked second-best in walks allowed (114), and had the fifth-highest strikeout total on the Cape (349).

Landers was a four-year pitcher at Cortland. As a player, Landers helped the Red Dragons to three SUNYAC titles, four regional appearances, and three NCAA Division III World Series appearances. Cortland finished third on two occasions and seventh once at the NCAA Division III World Series. As a junior, Landers was named to the 1997 ABCA All-America Third Team.

Landers is the father of Cal and Maura.

Leif Bigelow joins the Braves after serving the Wesleyan baseball program as pitching coach ahead of the 2025–26 season. During the 2024-25 season he was the Director of Player Development at the University of Connecticut, where he helped guide UConn to a Big East Regular Season Championship.

In the summer of 2025, Bigelow served as an Assistant Coach for the Norwich Sea Unicorns of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League, contributing to the team’s third consecutive Futures League Championship.

As a collegiate pitcher from 2019–2024, Bigelow competed at UConn, UMaine, East Tennessee State, and UMass.

Bigelow holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from the University of Maine and a Master of Science in Sport Science and Coach Education from East Tennessee State University.

Jelani Hamer is entering his first season in Bourne. Hamer is currently an assistant coach for SUNY Oswego, under head coach Scott Landers. He also was a member of the SUNY Oswego team, hitting .437 with seven homers, 39 RBI, and 20 stolen bases as a senior in 2024. That season he was named Region Player of the Year and an All-American. As a junior, he hit .318 in 2023 with five homers, 29 RBI, and 19 stolen bases.

A Bronx, NY native, Hamer played high school ball at Avon Old Farms in Connecticut, part of the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC).

■ Ed Blankmeyer returns for his second year with the Braves after last coaching for the Brooklyn Cyclones of the New York-Penn League in 2022. Previously, Blankmeyer was synonymous with St. John’s baseball, serving as the university’s head baseball coach from 1996 through 2019. He’s the Red Storm’s all-time winningest coach (829-499-4), earning six Big East regular season championships, five Big East tournament championships, 11 NCAA Regional appearances, and an NCAA Super Regional appearance in 2012. He’s been named Big East Coach of the Year eight times and the ABCA Northeast Region Coach of the Year four times. He was inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association’s Hall of Fame in 2018.

Blankmeyer served as an assistant coach at Seton Hall from 1973 to 1995 before taking over at St. John’s. He also contributed to Team USA Baseball: as an assistant coach on the 2010 college national team, manager of the 2015 college national team, and as a 2014 USA Premier 12 bench coach.

Jeff Limoncelli enters his second season in Bourne. He’s been a staple in high school baseball in upstate New York, with his career spanning four decades. In March 2024, he earned his 400th career victory as head coach of Horseheads High School and guided them to 11 NYSPHSAA Section 4 championships and two Class A state titles in 1999 and 2025. He also coaches the Horseheads boys’ varsity basketball team, winning three Section 4 titles in the process.

Limoncelli was a three-sport star at Elmira Free Academy, played college baseball at the University of South Carolina Aiken and the University of West Florida, then had a pro career of three and a half seasons as an infielder in the Boston Red Sox farm system, starting with the Elmira Pioneers of the New York-Penn League in 1989.

Jeff Burton enters his first summer with the Bourne Braves as Director of Recruiting after assisting with key late-season acquisitions during the club’s 2025 playoff run. A former player at the University of Virginia, Burton has spent more than three decades mentoring young men and women on and off the field, helping them navigate athletics, academics, and life.

Burton founded Jeff Burton Consulting, which has guided more than 1,100 student-athletes into college programs and is now recognized as one of the nation’s leading advisory agencies for families pursuing collegiate athletics.

Burton previously served as Head Coach at The Covenant School and was the founder of the Charlottesville Tom Sox, a premier summer collegiate program in the Valley Baseball League. Under his leadership, the organization earned recognition as one of America’s top collegiate summer programs in 2017.

In 2010, Burton founded H3 Baseball with Mississippi State Head Coach Brian O'Connor. H3 is a nationwide nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to the game for athletes of all socioeconomic backgrounds. Through H3, he has built relationships with many of the top college coaches in the country, along with a network of former professional players who support its mission. He has chaired a number of boards across the country and has spent almost 30 years as an investment advisor serving the needs of coaches and professional athletes across the country.