2007 commits

Marvin Sanchez- NIU

Way to go Marvin...

NIU is getting a heck of a player and a wonderful youngman! Good luck to Marvin.

Congrats to Steve Godawa (Pitcher from Buffalo Grove HS) and his family. Signing with Valparaiso University.

Good for Steve, very nice player and good kid as well.

Congratulations to Steve and the entire Godawa clan. A terrific young man and a real gamer.

Craig Peters, RHP at Deerfield, to play for Sean Leary at Lehigh University.

Congrats to Steve and the Godawa family, man that kid works and plays hard!! But please your not just a pitcher as I have watched you from ss to any outfield spot. Keep working!

Nice Class for Illinois State. How bout the kid from Texas coming to the Land of Lincoln to play?

http://goredbirds.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/111306aac.html

Scott Sexton INF Oak Lawn HS is off to Oakland University...

Congrats Scotty

CoachIU26,

Please don't go overboard with the "severe repurcussion" stuff.

There is not a parent out there that would send their son to a place that, "guaranteed" those repurcussions you speak of, if they knew ahead of time. This site is heavily read by prospective D1 parents. Don't run this BS by them. At any good program the coaches understand that negatives exist. They don't solve a truly negative issue by punishing the parents.

sweaty is not prone to negative talk about ISU and I'm certain the ISU coaches, more than anyone want the team to be more competitive than last spring.

I think it's wrong to paint every D1 coaching staff, including yours and ISU's with a brush that transparent and petty. Although I agree with your comments on commitments, let me assure you that there are plenty of stand up coaching staffs than can agree to disagree with opinions that are either about negative team situations or even contrary to their own.

Matt Hamann RHP/OF - Glenbrook North High School - Belmont University

Nick Rice LHP Tremper HS , Southern Illinois University. Way to go Nick!!

Wow. SIU missed on Eric Jokisch but picked up another great lefty in Nick Rice. I look forward to watching him pitch down here.

Congrats to Ian Goldberg (Lake Forest HS, Outfielder) and his family for siging with Tufts University.

Congratulations to a terrific player, young man and student. Coach Casey has a tremendous record during his tenure at Tufts and the school speaks for itself. Great job Ian!

Congratulations to the Crosby family and the University of Illinois.
Casey Crosby is an Illini.

Way to go Casey

Another big signing will be announced tonight.

We've talked at times on this site about the U of I not recruiting hard from our own state and especially our area. Well, evidently that is in the past. Casey Crosby, currently ranked number 79 out of the top 300 HS prospects from the class of 2007 according to Baseball America joins a class including Casey McMurray, Nick Chmielewski and Pete Cappetta. It was fantastic watching those 4 players perform this summer. I think the Illini have hit a homerun with this recruiting class. Congratulations Casey Crosby.

Today was a great day for our pitchers. First Casey Crosby signing with Illinois and now...

Congratulations goes out to the Monroe family,
Grant Monroe is a Blue Devil and will be playing for Coach Sean McNally at Duke University.

Way to go Grant

Congrats to Casey and Grant...

Job well done...

Congrats to Grant along with Larry. Casey, congrats and enjoy the rest of football playoffs.

My son filled me in this afternoon.

Good news at Johns Hopkins University. Barrington ace Clayton Rische commits to the fine school.


Congrats Clayton.

Congrats to Clayton and Craig and the entire Rische family.

i think im gunna vomit bc illinois recruiting class is so good. props to who's ever running the show over there that is a mighty good class your bringing in!

Kevin Smith C Wheaton North HS committs to NIU ....

that a baby Kev!!!

Congrats to Matt Foltz on a commit to St Joes IND Wheaton Warrenville HS 3B/1B

Congrats Clayton, keep working hard this winter and go get em this spring.

It was all him!
(and all those who helped along the way)

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Good news at Johns Hopkins University. Barrington ace Clayton Rische commits to the fine school.

Wow! Congrats!

Congradulations to FB's son, and FB.

Go Blue Jays!

Congrats to Clayton and FBD. Terrific player and outstanding student combine for the reward of attending one of the best universities in the country.

Nice job Clayton.

Congrats to Paul Duncan, from New Trier he signed to Eastern Kentucky, and by the way Walker McKinvin didn't sign with Binghampton that stat is Prep Baseball is incorrect

Brandon Adams, CoachB25's catcher from Troy Triad to Central Arkansas.

Where did Gailey (FREMD) or Hueneke (Palatine) sign with

So far as I know neither Joe Huencke or Matt Gailey have signed anywhere. Whatever program gets either or both of them will be very lucky as they are both excellent students with tremendous upside as ball players. On top of that they are both outstanding young men!

Eastern University signed, Recchia from shepard, hoekstra from tf south, sean estand from rita, Ryan Lindquist is a sophmore in college now that just signed.

Congratulations to Josh Tolan MIF from Highland Park HS.
JT committed with Purdue University.

Boiler up - JT

Congrats to Josh! They are getting a real spark plug.....heady player very nice glove.

Way to go Josh!

Congratulations to you and your entire family. No one has worked harder to achieve their goal than you, and we couldn't be happier for you.

Coaches Schreiber and Murphy just got themselves one heck of a player.

Dean Anna ( 05) signed with Ball State. Congrats