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By Dylan Hefflinger and JD Heilmann
Ohio Editor in Chief/NW Scout and Ohio Director of Scouting

From now until the start of the 2015 season, Prep Baseball Report Ohio will bring you in-depth team previews throughout the entire state. If your coach has not filled out the survey please have him do so through this link.

Along with the team previews, the 2015 Team Rankings will be releasing sometime late February and we hope to bring a Q&A session to discuss the rankings. To view the final regular season rankings of 2014 please click here. To view the preseason rankings from 2014 please click here.

Also, we will be releasing the preseason All-State Teams sometime in early March. To view the 2014 preseason All-State Teams please click here.

Please head over to JJHuddle to discuss the team previews.

2015 Team Preview: Grove City

School Name: Grove City
Coaches Name/Record: Ryan Alexander, 143-44
2014 Record: 26-6
Conference: OCC
Conference Record/Finish: 11-1
Division Level: I

Postseason Accomplishments:

• 1 State Final Four
• 1 Regional Championship
• 3 District Championships

Key Players Lost From 2014:

• Tyler Cowles, OF, Sinclair CC
• Ben Meyers, OF/LHP, Sinclair CC
• Dominic Cooper, IF, Merchant Marine

Number of Returning Starters/Pitchers: 6/4

Strengths of Team:

• Pitching Depth
• Mentally tough all the way through the lineup
• More consistent 1-9
• Everyone pushes each other
• Great 1, 2, 3, and 4 hitters in the lineup

Top Prospects in Class of 2015:

• Chase Antle, RHP, 6-foot-3, 190-pounds; Bowling Green commit
• Peyton Bowyer, OF, 5-foot-11, 180-pounds, R/R
• Robbie Jobe, C, 6-foot-3, 190-pounds,, R/R, good arm and solid hitter.
• Dakota Hawkins, 2B, 5-foot-10, 190-pounds, R/R, solid stick.
• Gage Kavy, 3B, 6-foot, 170-pounds,  R/R, good glove and consistent hitter.

Top Prospects in Class of 2016:

• Blake Griffith, 1B/3B/RHP
• Mark Rader, RHP-SS-OF
• Ethan Cormany, RHP
• Kalvin Koethke, OF
• Jarrett Harding, Catcher

Top Prospects in Class of 2017:  

• Dan Rutan, LHP
• Kyle Metheny, SS
• Cole Antle, OF

Top Prospects in Class of 2018:

• Nick Irwin, SS
• Jared Warner, 3B
• Kyle Sigler RHP

Notable College/MLB Alumni:

• Mike Mayers, RHP, Ole Miss/St. Louis Cardinals
• Joe Ford, IF, Wright State

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