Good Afternoon Tigers, 

Welcome to August, the month of vacations, college baseball camps, and the last week of summer baseball. 

There's a lot of news on tap inside the organization. Here's your August Rundown.


In this month's Tiger Rundown:

1. Last Championship Runs (Tiger Teams)

2. National Team Clutch Double  (Plays of the Week) 

3. Former Columbus Tiger Signs a Professional Contract with the Angels (Tiger Players)  

    
Written by Spiker Helms 


I'm going to miss you all. We do have September: 




Tiger Teams

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LocationTeamPlaceSport + Tournament
Northern Illinois15U Schwab2ndBaseball | TBR Cooperstown Tournament 
Central New York12U Manchester1stBaseball | Great Lakes Classic at Sports Force 
Southern Indiana15U Velo 1stBaseball | Grand Slam World Series 
Northern Illinois 16U Black1stSoftball | World Series 2 Softball at Sports Force
North California18U Lodi1st Baseball | 
Northern Illinois 18U Quatro Black3rd Baseball |


FINAL: Championship Region Tracker Chase: 

1st Place: 3 points | 2nd Place: 2 points | 3rd Place: 1 point

Central Region: 256
South Region: 76
North Region: 70

West Region: 54 
East Region: 39     
     

Map of Regions
Exception: Northern Illinois and Chicago area are in the Northern Region 





Top Play of the Week- "The Perfect Relay" 
17U National Team






Johns Hughes (Pittsburgh) to Landen Smith (Indianapolis) to Nick Livingston (St. Louis) performs the perfect relay to stop the runner in his tracks during the 2024 National Team's pool play game at the University of Miami of Ohio (watch it here) 

#2 Play of the Week- "No Doubles" 17U National Team

7th Inning bases loaded with two outs, and Nick Livingston came up to bat with the defense playing normal depth. Nick capitalized to allow the National Team to pull away in a close do-or-die pool play game. (Watch it here). 

Honorable Mention - "Back Hand and a Beaut" - 15U Schwab 

Garret Pieri: Back hand play! (watch now)



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Tiger Players

A Former Tiger Goes Pro + 4 New Commitments 

Tiger Player Profile: use your player profile as your central hub to host your metrics from Perfect Game, PBR, and your videos. It's a landing page specifically designed for you to showcase your skills. Log into your Rawlings Tigers VIP to start editing. Here's a great example of a well-done player profile: Mason Orton's

|MLB

Carter Rees: The former Columbus Tiger signed with the Los Angeles Angles this week. 

Zach Cole: The former StL Tiger makes his way to Advanced A after dominating single A in the Astros organization. 


|Committed  

Gage Hagerty: The Indy Tiger commits to Wuabonsee Community College in Illinois. 

Paul Pratte: The St. Louis Tiger is heading to Springfield, Missouri to play in the Great Lakes Valley Conference 

Jameson Prendergast: The Indianapolis Lefty is heading to Upland, Indiana, to play for the powerhouse Trojans

 

Drew Snyder: entering into the MIAA Conference as a Griffon. The Kansas City Tiger is heading to Missouri Western State University.

 

|18U 

Yosiah Peters: Posting a .395 BA at the oldest age group is not too shabby. Northern Illinois Tiger rakes. 

|17U 

Jayden Good: 11k's over 7 innings of work for the National Tigers in the Tournament of Champions in Cincy. 

Tyler Holmon: The 2024 grad performs at PBR Illinois, posting 91mph fastball paired with a 71-72mph breaking ball with bite. 

Brendan Ealy: National Team outfielder throws a dart from center to get the runner at the plate. 94+ from his position.  

Eric Kovach: PR's in August. 90mph from the 2024 LHP 

Nicko Benavidez: I dig the swings.

Trey Schilling: Double down the line to help the National Team

Jaret Phillips: his swing is a vibe 

Dylan Manning: BOMBSKIE'S


|16U

Gavin Rand: National Team player posts big-time stats at one of the top events in the country last weekend in the Tournament of Champions in Cincy. 

Mason Orton: Battled against Diamondbacks Elite throwing 7k's 

Kendrick Johnson: has started the offseason training by pulling down 96mph at Texas Baseball Ranch 

Brian Gould: Destruction of baseballs

Ryan Crawford: Left oppo swings are at the top of the list for me

|15U

Jeffry Schwab: filthy way to close out an inning

Will Sickmeir: in control with 5k's over 5 innings 

Josh Colaizzi: .480 is .480. He absolutely mashed in 2023

Lucas Swanson: I dig his lefty swing. 

|13U 

Chase Atkins: Representing Team Michigan at the PBR Future games. He showed up and showed out!

Andrew Lapke: have a weekend at the Games. 

Issac Garner: Yak sauce!

Gavin Morgan: homerun chain! 

Story of the Week

Best slide ever?! Tiger avoids Tag but called out.

What happened? The 16U Squad was playing in a pool play game when an aggressive play by Peyton Briddle appeared to be the right gamble. What's your call on the play? 

See what happened.  (Watch) 




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Written by: Spiker Helms 
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