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Tanner Perkins / At Close Range photography

Former Hustler Tanner Perkins and future Hustlers Austin Clay and David Simmons were featured in College Baseball Daily’s look into the program at Western Kentucky.

Perkins, a left-handed pitcher from Rockcastle County, started the first game in the modern history of the Hustlers, and has been named to the preseason All-Sun Belt Team.

Clay, another southpaw from Jessamine County, is expected to be another key factor for the WKU pitching staff. Simmons, an outfielder from Indianapolis, made great strides in the fall may crack the starting lineup for the Hilltoppers.

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STEAL your 2012 season tickets today for just $20!

The Hustlers, who will be playing this summer at Henry Clay High School, will be announcing their 2012 schedule soon, so get a good jump and steal yours for just $20 today!

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Henry Clay High School (from website)

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Meyer named Director of Operations at Tulane

Brian Meyer

from SportsNola website

NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane baseball program and head coach Rick Jones have announced the hiring of Brian Meyer as the clubs Director of Baseball Operations. Meyer joins the Green Wave after coaching stops at Wright State University and Otterbein University, where he was a three-year starter for the Cardinals.

Meyer also worked with the Licking County Settlers of the Great Lakes Collegiate Summer League, serving as the head coach the last two seasons. In 2010, his first season at the helm, he was named the GLCSL Manager of the Year after guiding the Settlers to their first regular-season title and a final national ranking of 23. The squad set franchise records for and led the league in wins, batting average, runs scored, hits, home runs, doubles, on base percentage, and slugging percentage.

In 2008 and 2009, Meyer was the hitting coach for the Settlers as the team set program records for wins, batting average, doubles and on-base percentage. While with LC, the team has had seven players named to the All-GLSCL team and set 10 program records over two seasons.

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Former Copperhead wins Conigliaro award

Former Southern Ohio Copperhead Tony Campana recently won the Tony Conigliaro award, in part because of his overcoming Hodgkin’s lymphoma as a child.

The award is presented to a Major League player who has overcome adversity through the attributes of spirit, determination and courage that were trademarks of Conigliaro. Billy and Richie Conigliaro, Tony Conigliaro’s brothers, will present the award Jan. 19 at the 73rd Boston Baseball Writers Association of America annual dinner.The Red Sox began the award in 1990 to perpetuate the memory of Conigliaro, who died in February of that year after an eight-year struggle to come back from a massive heart attack that left him severely handicapped. Major League teams submit nominations and an independent 12-person panel does the voting. Read more

Harris among league’s best pitchers in 2011

Matt Harris

Eastern Kentucky’s Matt Harris was amongst the top 25 pitchers in the GLSCL this past season by CollegeSummerBaseball.net, coming in at no. 24.

Harris posted a 3-2 record in 2011 with a 2.72 ERA and in 39.2 innings of work, walked only six batters.

He also set the bar for the Hustlers’ best single-season strikeout totals, with 32.

Harris had a stellar year in 2011 at EKU, leading the team with 24 appearances and finishing the regular season with an ERA of 1.95. He compiled an ERA of 1.12 over a dominant stretch of pitching from March 26 – May 20; opposing batters hit just .203 against him during that time. Against OVC foes, he finished with a record of 2-0 with a save and a 0.59 ERA.

Dayton Docs to join GLSCL in 2012

Courtesy: GreatLakesLeague.org

DELAWARE, Oh. – At the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League’s (GLSCL) annual league meeting, the Dayton Docs were accepted as the newest member of the league. The Docs will be lead by Joe Marker and are set to play a 22-game home schedule at the beautiful Nischwitz Stadium, home field of the Wright State Raiders Collegiate Baseball Team.

“We are delighted to have someone of Joe’s background as a member of our baseball family,” said GLSCL Commissioner Dr. Kim Lance. “The addition of the Dayton Docs will allow us to bring the best of summer collegiate baseball to a market that already has set attendance records in the minor leagues. Of the franchises that contacted us for admission to the league, the Dayton group, lead by Joe Marker, clearly had the passion and understanding of our mission.”

The GLSCL is a charter member of the National Alliance of Summer Collegiate Baseball (www.nacsb.org), which is recognized as the premier organization in summer collegiate wood bat baseball. The GLSCL is funded in part by Major League Baseball and is only one of eight summer collegiate leagues in the country so designated.