Local Kids--College Updates

Tyler Wiesemeyer from Troy Triad is hitting .408 with a HR and 24 rbi's at Heartland CC. His OBP is .500 and he has yet to make an error in the OF.

Spencer Patton from South Central HS now at Parkland is 6-0 with a 3.18 era and 37 k's in 22 IP.

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Originally posted by SIBullets:
Tyler Wiesemeyer from Troy Triad is hitting .408 with a HR and 24 rbi's at Heartland CC. His OBP is .500 and he has yet to make an error in the OF.

I really like this kid and he proved early in his HS career that he could overcome poor coaching. Now that he has good coaching, imagine what he'll achieve.

Mike Bradley (Maine South) at Oakton has an ERA of 1.17 and has struck out 22 while walking 6 in 23 innings of work.

Patrick Keating and the Gators beat Arkansas to 7-1 improve to 6-0 with a 2.45 era. His ERA is even lower in SEC play.

Dean Anna at Ball St. is hitting .350 with 5 hr's and 25 rbi's. He was also named the MAC West player of the week last week.
POW

Joe Oliver of Eastern Kentucky (Maine South) had three hits yesterday to boost the average to .276. Even though, he is off to a slow start with the bat, he has thrown out an amazing 15 of 22 potential base stealers.

Way to go Joe!!!!!!

A few guys I've noticed who've been outstanding.
Friedrich Loyola, E.Kentucky
Berger OPRF, Mizzou
Bates N. Central, N Carolina
Hollingsworth Plainfield, W. Michigan
Maugeri Stagg, SIU - recently highest BA.
Anna - as mentioned Ball State
In the minors - Bowden, Matt German (NIU) and John Ely (Miami OH) off to good starts.
I'm sure there are many others - awesome seeing IL kids doing great things out there!

Forgot to mention, from NIU.
Justin Behm, catcher Downers Grove. Very nice season numbers but in 12 conference games:
.386 BA, 6 HR, 20 RBI and 886 slugging.

If anybody's in the area Wed. night NIU plays Notre Dame at the cell at 7:00. A number of area kids on both rosters. It's also a fund-raiser for the NIU scholarship fund honoring the victims of the tragic shooting a few months ago.
Should be warm - tickets $10, believe they've sold 4000+ and hoping for more.

On Sunday, junior shortstop Peter Tountas (Maine South) and freshman outfielder GregWallace hit back-to-back home runs in the seventh inning of UE’s 6-5 victory over Indiana State.

Left fielder Casey McMurray knocked a career-high five hits for the Illini

Vince Mathe (Maine South) went 3-5 with 5RBI's in the first game of a doubleheader for Elmhurst College

There's nothing that Casey Mac does on a baseball field that surprises me. He's simply the very best high school player that I've ever seen and as humble a young man that you could find. Continued success in an Illini uniform!

Congradulations to lhp Danny Skelly from Chandler Gilbert CC in AZ. Had one heck of a year going 6-0 should have been 9-0, the bullpen struggled a few times. But congradulations on a terrific season!

Congrats to Danny. Where is he going next year?

I'm not sure if he committed anywhere yet, but I know he is getting a lot of attention. Where ever he decides to go I wish him best of luck!

Patrick Keating and the Florida Gators beat Georgia 7-2. He is now 8-0 on the year and 7-0 in the SEC. He now has wins vs. Siena, Auburn, Ole Miss, LSU, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky and Georgia. Not too shabby for the small town kid.

Ballyall,

Casey finishes the series vs. Penn State going 4 for 4 and 11-15 for the weekend, with two doubles, five RBI'S and seven runs scored. Kevin, you must be busting out all over.

How about Boomer's son Andy---5 for 6 today for University of Rochester as they won two from RPI and got to host the upcoming conference tournament---Andy is having quite a year and it isnt over yet--he has been one of their top hitters from day one this year

Boomer's son has done well from Day One, Day One in his freshman year.

Rick Zagone for Missouri pitches 9 innings of an eventual 10 inning, 3-2 loss to Texas A&M. A&M is one of the hottest teams in all Div I. Zagone threw 145 pitches,ouch!

Matt Reimer is having a great senior year at St Joes. He has broken several career records and this past week was named GLVC Player of the Week. He went 12-19 at the plate with 8 R, 8 RBIs,3 doubles, 2 HR, and a slugging % of 1.105. He's hitting .373 on the season. The Pumas are 40-11 and have clinched a berth in the GLVC tournament.

Congrats to U of Illinois Freshman left fielder Casey McMurray who earned his first career Big Ten Player of the Week honor Monday, the conference office announced, after going 11-for-15 (.733) in four games against Penn State over the weekend.
Way to represent

Matt Reimer & my son Chase, signed with Saint Joseph's on the same day and I have watched his entire career with the Puma's. He is an outstanding shortstop, with good range and a great arm. Matt has been the starting shortstop and the team leader for the last 4 years will leave the school with many records, including hits, sac bunts, triples, games started, etc. He is also very well liked by teamates, parents and opponents. Great job, Reims!!

Kevin Crane (Crete-Monee HS) is absolutely tearing it up at Parkland. Last I saw, he's hitting around .450 with 11 homeruns in his freshman year. His senior year of HS was hampered while he recovered from some shoulder surgery and had it not been for that, he would have gone to a big D1. Glad to see that he fully recovered and is showing what he can do down at Parkland.

Everyone loves the "Crane Train"

Congratulations to North Central Soph Pitcher Mike Kloss on being named CCIW player of the week . Kloss threw a gem of a game last week in shutting out hard hitting Concordia College .

SDawg34, very nice post. Congrats to Matt and your son on their accomplishments at St.Joe's.

Kevin Manson(Maine South) improves to 6-1 for the Illini this year.

Congratulations to Kenny Smalley from Delta State University for being named Most Outstanding Player of the Gulf South Conference All-tournament Team.

Jason Kipnis (Glenbrook North) is now playing for Arizona State

.347 11 HR 58 RBI

Kevin Manson (Maine South) caps off a great season for the Illini

http://fightingillini.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/recaps/052108aaa.html

Christian Friedrich LHP Eastern Kentucky (Loyola Academy) will be drafted in the 1st round of the June 5th 2008 draft. Could go as high as # 5 with San Fran, 7 with St. Louis, or tumble to 12 from what I hear. One thing is for sure, he is going in round one and will be a millionaire in a couple of weeks. Huge things ahead for this local kid. He has earned about every award a college D1 pitcher can get. He is up for the Golden Spike, but that would be a stretch because of where he plays. He was also one of the top pitchers in the Cape last year as he started in the All Star game.

Did Connor Powers from Benet suffer an injury this season? The Mississippi State website has him only playing in 35 games this spring.

In the middle of haveing a great season, he pulled a hamstring. This is in a news article on their web site from April 14th.

http://www.mstateathletics.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=9...16800&ATCLID=1440563

Congratulations to Kevin Tokarski (Downers Grove North) being named the Missouri Valley Conference freshman of the year.

GoRedbirds.com

Powers is listed as playing in Cape Cod this summer.

Friedrich featured in Baseball America.

http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/draft/

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/events/draft_re...dex.jsp?mc=friedrich

CSG,

Any word on where Kevin Dubler is expected to go?

Lincoln-Way East teammates of the class of 2005 have done quite well in college. Jon Moore has done a great job as the starting center fielder for Purdue this year - being honored as the Big Ten player of the week as well as All-Tournament Team for the Big Ten Tournament several weeks ago. They finished second in the Big Ten behind a strong Michigan team.

Dean Anna has also excelled at Ball State this year as shortstop - also earning conference player of the week during the year.

Likewise for Ryan Holley - at Binghamton University in New York, who had a solid year at first base.

Chris Kovacevich just finished his first "active" year with UIC after tranferring from Coastal Carolina and sitting out last year with Tommy John surgery. He moved from the bullpen to starting a number of games - and the team just competed in the College Station Regionals against Texas A & M, etc. after winning their 7th straight Horizon League title and 4th ever trip to the NCAAs.