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« Previous EntriesDunno to Bring Perfect Game to Indiana, Four Other States
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009Soon, baseball and softball players in and around northeast Indiana will have the opportunity to take part in the world’s largest baseball/softball scouting service. Last summer, Rich Dunno, the owner of the Strike Zone baseball/softball training facility and Les Edgerton traveled to Cedar Rapids, Iowa to meet with the president and founder of Perfect Game [...]
Goodmiller Added to 2010 Taylor Baseball Roster
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009Rhett Goodmiller, a catcher from Ossian, will transfer from NCAA Division I Central Michigan University to join the Taylor University Trojans this fall. He will have three years of athletic eligibility remaining.
During his freshman season at CMU, Goodmiller played in 50 games and started 38. He posted a .266 batting average for the Chippewas with nine [...]
Local Ties: Kinzer to Taylor, Talarico to U of Toledo, Everson to Parkland
Saturday, August 8th, 2009Derek Kinzer (Homestead) has signed a letter of intent to continue his academic and athletic careers at Taylor University starting this fall. Kinzer, an infielder and a pitcher, hit .402 and scored 20 runs as a senior as he helped lead Homestead High School to a sectional championship with a 23-4 record.
Playing second base for the [...]
Taylor’s Ryne Otis Earns Second MCC Honor
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009Taylor University’s Ryne Otis has been named the Mid-Central College Conference Baseball Player of the Weekfor the second consecutive week..
Otis’ was awarded the honor after extending his hitting streak to 14 games when he recorded hits in all six of Taylor’s games a week ago. The Ossian native recorded two hits in five out of [...]
Fort Fragments (Local Ties): Day, Parker, Chenoweth, Dygert, Judy
Thursday, April 9th, 2009Lost in the shuffle of the TinCaps and Parkview Field excitement is the fact that we have many local standouts who are playing on the college and professional level. I’m trying to keep up, but it ain’t easy. Here’s a rundown of some of the highlights:
Former Snider standout, Kyle Day has landed on the Dayton [...]
Ryne Otis is MCC Player of the Week
Monday, April 6th, 2009Taylor University baseball freshman Ryne Otis has been named the Mid-Central College Conference Player of the Week, as announced Monday afternoon by the MCC office. The award is the first in Otis’ young career.
Otis hit .600 in six games last week, including four multi-hit games to bring his season total to 10 games with at [...]
Taylor Baseball Inks Homestead Catcher, Stryker Salyer
Monday, March 23rd, 2009Taylor University head baseball coach Kyle Gould has announced the signing of Stryker Salyer for the 2010 season. Salyer, from Fort Wayne, Indiana, is a catcher in his senior season at Homestead High School.
A switch-hitter, Salyer was ranked by Prep Baseball Report as the #83 prospect in the state of Indiana.
He was the starting catcher [...]
Fort Fragments (Local Ties): Parker, Dygert, Fuller, Williams, Chenoworth
Thursday, March 12th, 2009Several local standouts have taken their games to the college level. Recently, some of their names have appeared on the web:
Ball State’s baseball team boasts a handful of represenatives from Northeast Indiana. A recent game against Southern Illinois University featured two of them. In the contest, junior catcher Zach Dygert (Angola) drove in three runs [...]
Homeschooled Student with Fort Wayne Ties Taking Game to College
Friday, February 27th, 2009Blake McKnight, a homeschooled student from Missouri recently signed a letter of intent to play baseball for Evangel University in Springfield. Last year, McKnight and the traveling team founded by his father won the National Homeschool Baseball Tournament that was held in Fort Wayne. He was also was named tournament MVP. He’s going to take [...]
Taylor Wins Bryan College Baseball Invitational
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009BASEBALL COMEBACK LEADS TO CHAMPIONSHIP
Taylor scored 13 runs in the final three innings Saturday to erase a seven-run deficit and earn the Trojans the championship at the Bryan College Baseball Invitational by defeating Emmanuel College 16-10. Down 10-3 in the fifth inning, the Taylor bats came alive to score four runs in the fifth inning [...]