By Pete Cava
PBR Indiana Correspondent

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INDIANAPOLIS – The road to Omaha and this year’s College World Series begins Friday, May 29, with 64 NCAA Division I teams in action at 16 regional sites. 

A total of 34 former Indiana high school players are heading to the regionals.  Indiana University leads the way with 14, followed by Notre Dame and Wright State with four apiece.  

The rosters of Louisville and Ohio University both include three ex-Hoosier preps.  Arkansas has two more, while Michigan, Morehead State, Vanderbilt and Coastal Carolina have one apiece.  

Also, Florida Atlantic right-handed pitcher Robbie Coursel, a graduate of Northeast HS in St. Petersburg, Fla., lists his hometown as Michigan City, Ind. 

Here’s a list, by region, of schools with Indiana high school products. 

At Tallahassee, Fla.

Auburn:  none.

College of Charleston:  none.

Florida State:  none.

Mercer:  none. 

At Gainesville, Fla.

South Florida:  none. 

Florida Atlantic:  none.  (note:  RHP Robbie Coursel a graduate of Northeast HS in St.

Petersburg, Fla., is a native of Michigan City, Ind.).

Florida:  none.     

Florida A&M:  none. 

At Coral Gables, Fla.

Columbia:  none.

East Carolina:  none.

Miami (Fla.):  none.

Florida International:  none. 

At Louisville

Michigan:  RHP Mac Lozer (North Central HS, Indianapolis).

Bradley:  none.

Louisville:  RHP Chandler Dale (Jeffersonville HS), 3B Drew Ellis (Jeffersonville

HS), LHP Josh Rogers (New Albany HS). 

Morehead State:  RHP/INF Evan Warden (Western HS, Kokomo). 

At Nashville

Indiana:  LHP Will Coursen-Carr (Fort Wayne South Side HS), OF Larry Crisler

(Gary Bishop Noll HS), OF Craig Dedelow (Munster HS), OF Brenda Flood

(Indianapolis Cathedral HS), INF Macy Holdsworth (Greensburg HS), INF

Austin Hooker (Tipton HS), RHP Jake Kelzer (Bloomington South HS), OF

Will Nolden (Lawrence North HS, Indianapolis), OF Logan Sowers

(McCutcheon HS, Lafayette), INF Colby Stratten (Bloomington North HS), C

Demetrius Webb (North Central HS, Indianapolis), RHP Kent Williams

(Noblesville HS).

Radford:  none.

Vanderbilt:  OF/INF Nolan Rogers (Bloomington South HS)

Lipscomb:  none. 

At  Champaign, Ill.

Wright State:  IF Matt Morrow (Richmond HS), INF Mitch Roman (Hamilton

Southeastern HS), RHP Logan Blair (Mount Vernon HS), 1B/OF Andrew

McCafferty (Westfield HS).

Notre Dame:   INF Kyle Fiala (Carmel HS), RHP Connor Hale (Brebeuf Jesuit HS,

Indianapolis), RHP Nick McCarty (Indianapolis Cathedral HS), INF Phil Mosey (Indianapolis Cathedral HS).

Illinois:  none.  

Ohio:  INF Tirey Burch (Heritage Hills HS, Lincoln), INF/C Tony Giannini (Carmel

HS), LHP Spencer Sapp (Jasper HS). 

At Springfield, Mo.

Oregon:  none.

Iowa:  none.  

Missouri State:  none.

Canisius:  none. 

At Baton Rouge

Louisiana State:  none.

Lehigh:  none.

Tulane:  none.

UNC Wilmington:  none. 

At Stillwater, Okla.

Oral Roberts:  none.

Arkansas:  RHP Jonah Patten (Norwell HS), RHP Parker Sanburn (Kokomo HS)

Oklahoma State:  none.  

St. John’s:  none.  

At Fort Worth

Stony Brook:  none.

North Carolina State:  none.

Texas Christian:  none.  

Sacred Heart:  none. 

At Dallas

Texas:  none.   

Oregon State:  none.

Dallas Baptist:   none.

Virginia Commonwealth:  none. 

At College Station, Texas

California:  none.   

Coastal Carolina:  C Jeffrey Scott (Clinton Central HS).

Texas A&M:  none.

Texas Southern:  none.  

At Houston

Louisiana-Lafayette:  none.

Rice:  none.

Houston:  none.

Houston Baptist:  none. 

At Los Angeles

Maryland:  none.

Mississippi: none.

UCLA:  none.

Cal State Bakersfield:  none. 

At Fullerton, Calif.

Clemson:  none.

Arizona State:  none.

Cal State Fullerton:  none.

Pepperdine:  none. 

At Lake Elsinore, Calif.

Virginia:  none.

Southern California:  none.

UC Santa Barbara:  none.

San Diego State:  none.

Pete Cava is the author of Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players:  A Biographical Dictionary, 1871-2014, coming soon from McFarland Publishers.