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College  | Rankings | 9/25/2015

Top Junior College Recruits

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In this fourth and final feature focusing on some of the top prospects and recruiting efforts for the 2015-16 college year we turn our attention to the Junior College ranks as well as identifying some of the top recruiters from across the nation.

Below is the ranking of the top 31 players that have honored their Junior College commitments as well as 50 notable players that have transferred from the Junior College level to notable Division I universities. The first table was assembled by using Perfect Game's class of 2015 high school player rankings.

The second table is sorted by the college commitment (listed alphabetically), but the names were procured using several Perfect Game rankings, including the top overall Junior College prospects as ranked by Allan Simpson last spring, the top Junior College prospects as identified by Perfect Game prior to the 2015 MLB Draft as well as those taken in the draft that did not sign.


Top 2015-16 Junior College Recruits

RK Player POS. Hometown ST Commitment
1 Nicholas Shumpert SS Lone Tree CO San Jacinto (Texas)
2 Kep Brown OF Mount Pleasant SC Spartanburg Methodist (S.C.)
3 Mike Hickman C Katy TX Chipola (Fla.)
4
Tekwaan Whyte SS Stone Mountain GA Chipola (Fla.)
5 Ryan January C Swampscott MA San Jacinto (Texas)
6 Ethan Skender SS Metamora IL State College of Florida
7 Santi Santa Cruz RHP Sahuarita AZ Central Arizona
8
Shane Potter 1B Encinitas CA Central Arizona
9 Ty Buck 3B Red Wing MN Iowa Western
10 Bryan Scheker OF Clermont FL Tallahassee (Fla.)
11 Francisco Arias RHP Brandon FL Seminole State (Fla.)
12 Garrett Hutson RHP Olathe KS San Jacinto (Texas)
13 Brandon Hill OF Lilburn GA Chattahoochee Valley (Ga.)
14 Austin Moore RHP Huntington Beach CA Orange Coast (Ca.)
15 Jesus Gamez RHP Dover OK Seminole State (Okla.)
16 Bowden Francis RHP Tallahassee FL Chipola (Fla.)
17 Liam Scafariello OF Southington CT San Jacinto (Texas)
18 Kyle Wilson RHP Raymore MO Crowder (Mo.)
19 Kristjan Storrie RHP Langley BC Galveston College (Texas)
20 Zachary “KH” Kapihe RHP Ewa Beach HI San Jacinto (Texas)
21 Jaxxon Fagg 1b Gilbert AZ Yavapai (Az.)
22 Tyler Huggins C Boynton Beach FL Palm Beach St (Fla.)
23 JD Williams SS Brampton ON State College of Florida
24 Malcolm Grady RHP Homewood IL Wabash Valley (Ill.)
25 Casey Cobb RHP Hamilton GA Gulf Coast CC (Fla.)
26 Canice Ejoh OF Brampton ON Cochise College (Az.)
27 Elijah MacNamee OF Cypress TX Blinn College (Texas)
28 Jarod Bayless RHP Texarkana TX  San Jacinto (Texas)
29 Luke Maddox IF Gainesville  GA  St. Johns River CC (Fla.)
30 Kevin Lara RHP  Kissimmee  FL  Seminole State (Fla.)
31 Ethan Franklin RHP  Houston  TX  San Jacinto CC (Texas)


Junior College Transfers to Division I Programs

Player POS. Commitment Previous School
J.C. Cloney LHP Arizona College of the Canyons (Calif.)
Dalton Thomas C Arkansas Little Rock Meridian (Miss.)
Gabriel Klobosits RHP Auburn Galveston (Texas)
Ben Braymer LHP Auburn LSU-Eunice
Niko Buentello 1B Auburn Grayson (Texas)
Octavio Rodriguez LHP Auburn Navarro (Texas)
Josh Palacios OF Auburn San Jacinto (Texas)
Darick Hall 1B/RHP Dallas Baptist Cochise (Ariz.)
Mandy Alvarez 3B Eastern Kentucky Miami-Dade (Fla.)
Colyn O'Connell RHP Florida Atlantic Miami-Dade (Fla.)
Dustin Hersey RHP Florida State St. Johns River (Fla.)
Blake Cairnes RHP Georgia Georgia Perimeter
Devin Vainer LHP Georgia State Georgia Perimeter
Brick Paskiewicz OF/RHP Grand Canyon Paradise Valley (Ariz.)
Clay Casey OF Houston Northwest Mississippi
Alexander Krupa OF Indiana Iowa Western
Mitch McIntyre RHP Indiana State Iowa Western
Mason McCoy SS Iowa Illinois Central
Rich Lovelady LHP Kennesaw State East Georgia
Steven Sensley OF Louisiana-Lafayette LSU-Eunice
Ishmael Edwards OF Louisiana-Lafayette Howard (Texas)
Riley Smith RHP LSU San Jacinto (Texas)
Zach Winn RHP Maine Howard (Texas)
Chad Smith RHP Mississippi Wallace State-Hanceville (Ala.)
Austin Sanders RHP Mississippi Hinds (Miss.)
Brian Browning LHP Mississippi Northwest Florida State
Nate Lowe 1B Mississippi State St. Johns River (Fla.)
Kyle Smith RHP NC State Lenoir (N.C.)
Kevin Ginkel RHP Nevada Southwestern (Calif.)
Trevor Charpie RHP Nevada Saddleback College (Calif.)
Greg Popylisen OF New Mexico State El Paso (Texas)
Garrett Benge 3B Oklahoma State Cowley County (Kan.)
Collin Theroux C Oklahoma State San Joaquin Delta (Calif.)
Alex Vargas RHP Quinnipiac Monroe (N.Y.)
Trent Goodrich SS Sacramento State South Mountain (Ariz.)
Dom Thompson-Willilams OF South Carolina Iowa Western
Peter Strzelecki RHP South Florida Palm Beach State (Fla.)
Brad Labozzetta RHP South Florida Polk State (Fla.)
Ryan McAuliffe RHP St. John's Northern Essex (Mass.)
Mitch Sewald RHP TCU LSU-Eunice
Ryan Merrill SS TCU Iowa Western
Joel Davis OF Texas A&M Seminole State (Okla.)
Chris Falwell LHP Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Cisco (Texas)
Chandler Eden RHP Texas Tech Yavapai (Ariz.)
Chris Oakley RHP Tulane Florence-Darlington (S.C.)
Jarret DeHart OF Tulane Howard (Texas)
Austin Sodders LHP UC Riverside Riverside (Calif.)
Dean Kremer RHP UNLV San Joaquin Delta (Calif.)
Dalton Viner RHP Wichita State San Jacinto (Texas)
Zach Lewis RHP Wichita State Wabash Valley (Ill.)





We have great respect and appreciation for all the college coaches that spend so much time away from home looking to find the players to take their programs to the next level. There are so many that deserved to be recognized, as here’s just 10 of the Division I coaches, whose programs are ranked outside the top 25 classes, who are everywhere and putting in the work to find the right players to make their programs successful.

Toby Bicknell- Air Force
Teddy Warrecker-Cal Poly
Jonathan Anderson-Dartmouth
Josh Jordan-Duke
Derek Simmons-Kennesaw State
Rob Vaughn-Maryland
Brian Anderson-Penn State
Aric Thomas-Tennessee
J-Bob Thomas-Texas Tech
Robert Woodard-Virginia Tech


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