COUNTY PLAYERS AND TEAMS AMONG BEST IN THE STATE, SAYS LONGTIME PUNDIT

 

The talent level is high in the local prep baseball scene in 2010. The county's junior and senior classes are both stacked to the brim with sterling standouts on the diamond. Multiple players from each class have already been offered and accepted major D1 scholarship.

This fact was further evidenced by my main man Tom Markowski's RECENTLY RELEASED list of the Top Ten baseball players and baseball teams in the entire state. According to Markowski – a highly-respected prep analyst in the area for the past 30-plus years AND A GOOD FRIEND OF BURNEY HIMSELF – THE OC has four of the top ten players in Michigan and six of the top ten teams.

Brother Rice's Pat MacKenzie, OL St. Mary's Devin Ahart and Korey Hall, and WL Central's Jake Paulson were all on the Top Ten list. MacKenzie is off to play ball next season at Central Michigan, Ahart at Akron, Paulson, at Oakland U, and Hall at Wabash Community College in Illinois with the intention at ending up at either a Big Ten or SEC school in the spring of 2012.

I suspect it was simply an oversight, but you could also easily have seniors Farmington's Joel Fisher (Michigan State), RH Adams' Nick Druzinski (Toledo), and OL St. Mary's Blaise Salter (Michigan State) or juniors Greg Fettes of MH Lamphere, Jimmy Pickens of Brother Rice, and Mike Mestdagh (Michigan State) of Birmingham Groves on that list too  

Local squads, OL St. Mary's, Brother Rice, Novi, Lake Orion, Farmington , and MH Lamphere all dot Markowski's Top Ten team list.

CHEERS TO WHAT IS CERTAIN TO BE A PAIR OF MEMORABLE SEASONS IN THE SUN IN 2010 AND 2011!!!! COME ON FELLAS, GO OUT THERE AND CONTINUE TO MAKE BURNEY PROUD!