February 2015

Cincinnati Club Newsletter

ISSUE No. 2 EXTRA…. EXTRA….!!!!!  EXTRA EXTRA!!!

Team On the Rise (CBC 16U)

CBC Dominates Showcase CBC Strikes Gold!

 Top 10 CBC Prospects February (2 new players enter the CBC does it again! What do you do top 10) when you wake up one morning and due to uncontrollable circumstances, CBC 16U Kuncl you have no coach? Well, what else are you going to do but go and If you want to see what future Div. I baseball players look like, look no further! Coach Tom get one of the greatest baseball Kuncl and his staff have done a great job with players this city has ever seen! teaching fundamentals and preparing his players That’s right, George Foster! How for the next level. He has several players that will be playing varsity baseball this year as lucky could a group of 15U baseball sophomores and even more that will one day players be. They don’t understand play at the Div. I collegiate level. This team is just who is teaching them the game successful due to a lot of things, but they are very deep in pitching! Currently they have two of baseball, but CBC knows just how players ranked in the top 50 sophmores in Ohio fortunate they are. (SS/Trevor Kuncl #38 and RHP/Connor McMurray #39). By the end of this summer they will have at least 10 players in the top 100. George Foster (above) George Foster played for arguably Be sure to see this team play, they are exciting! the greatest baseball team of all time, The winning two in 1975 and 1976. He is considered one of the most feared right handed hitters of all time. Foster CBC Players Dominate Local Showcase! led the in home runs in 1977 and 1978, and in RBIs in PBR Cincinnati Preseason Underclass Showcase was very 1976, 1977, and 1978. He won the NL's Most Valuable Player Award in well attended by players from all over Southwest Ohio. Players 1977 and a in 1981. He famously began using a between the grades of 9th and 11th attended to showcase their black bat during his prime because he wanted to "integrate the bat rack" in range of skills which included Pitching/Catching, Infield/ Cincinnati. Foster was inducted into the Hall of Outfield, Hitting and Running. Several CBC players were Fame in 2003. He was a celebrity participant in the 2010 Cincinnati Reds/ present and they fared very well. PBR Director of Baseball in Findlay Market Parade. Ohio pulled CBC President Cary Daniel to the side just to Now we are fortunate enough mention how strong the CBC players were looking. When the to welcome him to the CBC category winners came out for this event, it was evident that family. Welcome George! CBC made their mark! PBR selected 12 categories to pick a winner from. CBC had more players selected than any other organization. Our winners were as follows:

MOST MOVEMENT ON FASTBALL: 2017 RHP / Evan Miller (Harrison HS)

BEST BREAKING BALL: 2017 RHP / Connor McMurray (Summit Country Day HS)

BEST HANDS IN THE FIELD: 2017 SS Trevor Kuncl (St. Xavier HS)

CBC Top 10 Prospects (February 2015)

(These rankings are strictly based on how many followers you have on Field Level. You must be a current HS player for CBC and have an updated profile with video in order to qualify. This does not indicate who is the best overall players in CBC, simply who is getting the most interest on Field Level. A point system is in place: Div. I followers = 5pts. Div. II followers = 3pts. All others = 1pt.).

HEIGHT/POS NAME GRAD YR TEAM HIGH SCHOOOL

1.) 6’6 / RHP Bradley Suedkamp 2016 CBC 16U Kuncl Edgewood High School, KY

2.) 6’6 / RHP Brent Cox 2015 CBC 17U Disbennett Oak Hills High School, OH

3.) 6’5 / RHP Sam Wirsing 2018 CBC 15U Beermann Madeira High School, OH

4.) 6’2 / RHP Jared Breeze 2016 CBC 16U Kuncl Turpin High School, OH

5.) 5’10 / SS Trevor Kuncl 2017 CBC 16U Kuncl St. Xavier High School, OH

6.) 6’0 / RHP Connor McMurray 2017 CBC Kuncl Summit Country Day School, OH

7.) 6’3 / C Eli Gora 2017 CBC Kuncl Milford High School, OH

8.) 6’1 / SS Will Vogelgsang 2016 CBC 17U Disbennett McNicholas High School, OH

9.) 5’10 / SS Kadeen Beermann 2018 CBC 15U Beermann Monroe High School, OH

10) 5’6 / 2B AJ Peterson 2018 CBC 15U Beermann Lakota West High School, OH