by Matt Plante
Vice President
Top Tier Alumni MLB Assignments for the opening of the 2016 Season:
Tanner Roark, Washington Nationals
Will get the start with the big league club in the Home Opener this Thursday vs. Miami Marlins at 4:05 EST.
Tyler Ladendorf, Oakland A’s
Will start the season off with the Triple-A Nashville Sounds
Rob Scahill, Pittsburgh Pirates
Will start the season off with the Triple-A Indianapolis Indians
Paul DeJong, St. Louis Cardinals
Will start the season off with the Double-A Springfield Cardinals
Kyle Hunter, Seattle Mariners
Will start season off with the High-A Bakersfield Blaze
Jeremy Rhoades, LA Angels
Will start the season off with the High-A Inland Empire 66ers
Karch Kowalczyk, LA Dodgers
Will start the season off with the High-A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes
Ryan Borucki, Toronto Blue Jays
Will start season off with the High-A Dunedin Blue Jays
Ryan Koziol, San Francisco Giants
Will start the season off in Low-A with the Augusta GreenJackets
Shane Conlon, Oakland A’s
Will start season off in Rookie League with the AZL Athletics
Rob McDonnell, LA Dodgers
Will start season off in Rookie League with the Ogden Raptors
Scott Firth, Colorado Rockies
Will start season off in Rookie League with the Grand Junction Rockies
Mike Martin, Oakland A’s
Will start season off in Rookie League with the AZL Athletics
Anthony Ray, St. Louis Cardinals
Will start season off in Rookie League with the Johnson City Cardinals
Chris Godinez, New York Yankees
Will start off in Class A short-season with the Staten Island Yankees
Week 7 roundup of the top performers from our Top Tier Alumni in College Baseball.
Willie Bourbon, Northwestern
Had an explosive offensive week hitting .462 going 6 for 13. To start the week off, in the mid-week game vs. Chicago State, he went 4 for 4 only a triple away from the cycle, getting 2 singles, a double and his 1st collegiate home run in a 11 to 5 win. This was the only win the Cats would pick up on the week as they got swept by Michigan on the weekend. He collected 2 more doubles on the weekend, with a combined 5 RBI’s in all for the week.
Ben Browdy, Wash U
Had a standout offensive performance this past weekend vs. Grinnell College. He went 7 for 16 hitting .438 with 2 doubles, a home run and 8 RBI’s. Even with this offensive outburst Wash U lost 2 out of 3 games on the weekend.
Jesse Forestell, Western Michigan
Had a really good offensive week going 6 for 16, hitting .375, collecting at least one hit in all four games this week. He tallied a double and 2 RBI’s on the weekend but that was not enough as Kent State took 2 out of 3 from the Broncos.
Liam Carter, Missouri
Collected a save in the mid-week game vs. Saint Louis University pitching 2 innings, giving up 1 hit, 0 runs, and 1 walk. On the weekend vs. Arkansas he threw 1.1 innings of relief, giving up 2 hits, 0 runs, and 1 walk, helping them take 2 out of 3 games from the Razorbacks.
Charley Gould, William & Mary
Had another huge weekend going 6 for 15 hitting .400 on the weekend. He collected a double, and 4 RBI’s with multiple hits in 2 of the 3 games on the weekend. He is second on the team in batting average hitting .379 on the year.
Brett Shimanovsky, Saint Louis
Picked up a win in relief to improve to 2-2 on the year and help Saint Louis get the sweep on the weekend vs. George Mason. He threw 2 innings of relief giving up 2 hits, 0 earned runs, 0 walks, and 3 K’s.
Jack Landwehr, Illinois State
Picked up the win in relief vs. Xavier this weekend going 1.1 innings giving up 1 hit, 0 runs, and 1 K. This moves him to 2-2 on the year. He also threw in the mid-week game vs. Eastern Illinois going another 1.1 innings of relief giving up 1 hit, 0 runs, and 1 K.
Justin Kelly, Wayne State
Went 4 for 12 on the 4-game weekend set vs. Ohio Dominican, hitting .333 with a double, a home run, and 6 RBI’s. With this offensive outburst he helped Wayne State win all 4 games vs. Ohio Dominican.
Luke Johnson, Bucknell
Went 4 for 12 on the weekend, hitting .333 with 2 RBI’s to help the Bison take 3 out of 4 games from Lehigh.
Nick Milligan, Western Illinois
Went 1.2 innings in relief giving up 3 hits, 0 runs, 1 walk, and 3 K’s to help the Leathernecks take 2 out of 3 games from Omaha.
Sean Hjelle, Kentucky
Threw 1 inning of relief this weekend vs. Tennessee giving up 1 hit, 0 runs, 0 walks and 1 K. He helped the Wildcats take 2 out of 3 games from the Vols, while improving their record to 20-8 on the season, to rank them 21st in the nation. Hjelle on the year has a 0 ERA, holding hitters to .194 batting average.
Jason Scholl, Eastern Illinois
Went 4 for 12 on the weekend hitting .333 with a double and an RBI vs. Murray State. They lost 2 out of 3 vs. Murray State this past weekend.
Frankie Perrone, Eastern Illinois
Went 4 for 13 on the weekend, hitting .308 with a double and 2 RBI’s vs. Murray State.
Brian Musielak, Concordia University of Chicago
Threw 3 innings of relief, giving up 0 hits, 0 runs, 0 walks, and 1 K on the weekend.
Chris Pedrak, Carthage
Threw 2 innings of relief giving up 0 hits, 0 earned runs, and 1 walk to help his team pick up a win vs. North Park.
Max Allen, Georgetown
Threw 1 inning of relief on the weekend, giving up 0 hits, 0 runs while striking out 3.
Brandon Mosley, Southern Illinois
Went 3 for 3 in his one start this weekend vs. Jacksonville State. Southern Illinois went on to take 2 of 3 on the weekend vs. Jacksonville State.
Trey Schramm, Xavier
Went 2 innings of relief vs. Illinois State giving up 1 hit, 1 run and 1 walk.
Michael Shereyk, SIUE
Made 2 appearances on the weekend vs. Southeast Missouri State. He threw a total of 3 innings giving up 5 hits, 1 run, 4 walks and 1 K.
Matt Sullivan, Chicago State
Went 1 for 3 in the mid-week game vs. Northwestern, hitting his 1st collegiate home run and collecting 2 RBI’s on the day.
