Year two in the books for Prep Baseball Report in Nebraska. We followed the high school season throughout the Spring and Legion Summer. We held the Top Prospect Showcase in May, Border Battles in August and Fall Review in November.  We've seen a dizzying amount of baseball players, which allows us to accumulate information and be the #1 resource for high school baseball in the state of Nebraska.

With the New Year approaching, we decided to take a look back through the college commitments made by prospects across the state. 

The 2018 class currently has 79 commits, comparatively the 2017 class had 47 commit at this time last year. Twelve of these commitments are to Division-1 programs, 13 are committed to Division-2, 36 are committed to Junior Colleges and 18 are committed to NAIA or Division-3 programs. There are still very strong prospects available including Matt Koeningsman, Brian Leiferman, Braiden Ruffin, Trey Asher, and Logan Mueller. 

2018 Commitments 

Tommy Alitz	NE	Omaha Roncalli	2018	3B	Garden City CC
Cooper Allen	NE	Bellevue West	2018	1B	Barton CC
Zach Argo	NE	Norris	2018	RHP	Air Force
Tyler Bandiera	NE	Millard West	2018	RHP	Barton CC
Zach Banks	NE	Yutan	2018	-	Briar Cliff University
David Benjamin	NE	Millard South	2018	C	Southeast CC
Grant Bohling	NE	Lincoln Southwest	2018	1B	Des Moines Area CC
Derek Botaletto	NE	Millard North	2018	2B	Nebraska-Kearney
Camden Brichacek	NE	Lincoln Pius X	2018	2B	Nebraska-Kearney
Conner Brown	NE	Bellevue East	2018	OF	Buena Vista University
Jake Bunz	NE	Elkhorn South	2018	LHP	Wichita State
Brock Burling	NE	Millard West	2018	RHP	Hutchinson CC
Casey Burnham	NE	Grand Island	2018	OF	Kansas
Sayre Burnley	NE	Norris	2018	C	Iowa Lakes CC
Grant Carl	NE	Bennington	2018	RHP	Wayne State College (NE)
Caden Comer	NE	North Platte	2018	RHP	Southeast CC
Brandon Doty	NE	Lincoln Southwest	2018	RHP	Iowa Western CC
Logan Eickhoff	NE	Westside	2018	3B	North Central Missouri JC
Griffin Everitt	NE	Lincoln Southwest	2018	C	Kansas City Kansas CC
Caleb Feekin	NE	Papillion LaVista	2018	LHP	Nebraska
Zach Firmature	NE	Creighton Prep	2018	RHP	Hutchinson CC
Reed Fitzke	NE	Fremont	2018	-	Buena Vista University
Alexander Fuhs	NE	Sioux Falls Lincoln (SD)	2018	OF	Northwestern College (IA)
Drew Gilin	NE	Millard South	2018	SS	Nebraska
Dylan Glaser	NE	Adams Central	2018	C	Nebraska Wesleyan
Colby Gomes	NE	Millard West	2018	RHP	Nebraska
Jackson Gordon	NE	Omaha Skutt	2018	SS	Northwest Missouri State
Nicholas Hall	NE	Omaha Burke	2018	3B	Southeast CC
Noah Hammond	NE	Bellevue West	2018	1B	Dakota State
Grady Hatton	NE	Elkhorn	2018	SS	Doane College
Cade Herrmann	NE	Gretna	2018	RHP	Wayne State College (NE)
Caiden Hill	NE	Papillion-Lavista	2018	SS	Southeast CC
Braydan Hlavac	NE	Louisville	2018	1B	Buena Vista University
Keaton Hoeke	NE	Elkhorn South	2018	OF	Dakota State
Thad Huber	NE	Kearney	2018	SS	Allen County CC
Zane Jackson	NE	Wayne	2018	C	Northwest Missouri State
Austin Jisa	NE	Lincoln Southeast	2018	C	Webster University
Jaxson Johnson	NE	Lincoln Southeast	2018	3B	Webster University
Cade Kohout	NE	Norris	2018	OF	Fort Scott CC
Connor Laux	NE	Hastings	2018	SS	Nebraska-Kearney
Dawson Linder	NE	Lincoln Southwest	2018	RHP	Hutchinson CC
Connor McElderry	NE	Omaha Burke	2018	RHP	McCook CC
Noah Milam	NE	Falls City	2018	LHP	Doane College
Zachary Munson	NE	Omaha Burke	2018	RHP	Southeast CC
Ryan Obrecht	NE	Millard North	2018	RHP	Wayne State College (NE)
Austin Oetter	NE	Omaha Burke	2018	C	Minnesota State CC
Josh Olson	NE	Omaha Skutt Catholic	2018	RHP	Augustana College (SD)
Garrett Olson	NE	Lincoln Southeast	2018	SS	Iowa Western CC
James Overkamp	NE	Ralston	2018	SS	Buena Vista University
Alex Pavon	NE	Bellevue East	2018	OF	Iowa Lakes CC
Kyle Perry	NE	Millard South	2018	LHP	Nebraska
Ethan Peterson	NE	Elkhorn South	2018	2B	Nebraska-Kearney
Dylan Phillips	NE	Creighton Prep	2018	LHP	Kansas State
Cade Povich	NE	Bellevue West	2018	LHP	South Mountain CC
Noah Rheinheimer	NE	Omaha Roncalli	2018	C	Barton CC
Owen Richter	NE	Creighton Prep	2018	C	Creighton
Joe Ritcher	NE	Lincoln Northeast	2018	RHP	Indian Hills CC
Nate Sailors	NE	Ralston	2018	RHP	Wayne State College (NE)
Micah Savine	NE	Bellevue West	2018	RHP	Bellevue University
Shay Schanaman	NE	Grand Island	2018	SS	Nebraska
Zane Schmidt	NE	Kearney Catholic	2018	C	Nebraska-Kearney
Austin Schultz	NE	Norris	2018	SS	Kentucky
Creighton Silvain	NE	Roncalli	2018	RHP	Labette CC
Jake Skala	NE	Kearney	2018	RHP	Barton CC
Rece Snyder	NE	Lincoln East	2018	LHP	Southeast CC
Andrew Staebell	NE	Millard South	2018	LHP	Wayne State College (NE)
Brenden Tauber	NE	Millard West	2018	OF	Pratt CC
Keegan Thurston	NE	Kearney	2018	RHP	Nebraska-Kearney
Jack Tillman	NE	Elkhorn South	2018	C	Doane College
Jared Urbach	NE	Ralston	2018	2B	Dakota State
Jake Vogt	NE	Arlighton	2018	-	Northeast CC
Dylan Wagner	NE	Millard South	2018	3B	Southeast CC
Noah Wallace	NE	Millard South	2018	OF	Coffeyville CC
Jaxon Walls	NE	Bellevue East	2018	SS	Johnson County CC
Hunter Waugh	NE	Omaha Burke	2018	RHP	Southeast CC
Jared Wegner	NE	Kearney	2018	OF	Creighton
Peyton Wendell	NE	Millard West	2018	RHP	Nebraska-Kearney
Easton Young	NE	Millard West	2018	LHP	Barton CC
Shea Zetterman	NE	Lincoln Southwest	2018	RHP	Iowa Western CC

 

The 2019 class started picking up some traction this fall with some of the top prospects in the class making their commitments to Divisions 1. Four prospects decided to stay instate at Creighton & Nebraska while James Valdiva committed to Arizona State and hard throwing RHP Sam Wibbels committed to Kentucky. At this point, this class doesn't have as much talent as the 2018 class but should see some prospects make big jumps this spring as they continue to develop physically. 

2019 Commitments 

Hunter Cerveny	NE	Wilber- Clatonia	2019	LHP	Nebraska
Patrick Collins	NE	Mount Michael	2019	3B	Creighton
Sayer Diederich	NE	Elkhorn South	2019	LHP	Nebraska
Cole Evans	NE	Grand Island	2019	OF	Creighton
James Valdivia	NE	Elkhorn South	2019	SS	Arizona State
Sam Wibbels	NE	Hastings	2019	RHP	Kentucky

The 2020 class has shown the early potential to produce 10-12 D-1 prospects if they continue to develop. Kaleb Carpenter (LHP, Lexington) is the lone commitment in the class this far but as the spring and summer progress in 2018 it wouldn't be surprising if multiple prospects in the 2020 rankings are committed this time next year. 

2020 TOP 15 RANKINGS 

RANK	NAME	STATE	SCHOOL	CLASS	POS	COMMITMENT
1	Tyler Palmer	NE	Columbus	2020	RHP
2	Trey Frahm	NE	Elkhorn	2020	SS
3	Kaleb Carpenter	NE	Lexington	2020	LHP	Creighton
4	Max Anderson	NE	Millard West	2020	SS
5	Tyler Ruhl	NE	Norris	2020	C
6	Ryan Mendez	NE	Millard North	2020	RHP
7	Tristan Gomes	NE	MIllard West	2020	3B
8	Mike Boeve	NE	Hastings	2020	3B
9	Noah Greise	NE	Millard South	2020	C
10	Drew Wessel	NE	Millard South	2020	C
11	Trevor Barajas	NE	Omaha Westside	2020	OF
12	Tyson Gordon	NE	Omaha Skutt Catholic	2020	OF
13	Michael Finan	NE	Westside High School	2020	RHP
14	Cole Whitehill	NE	Papillion LaVista	2020	1B
15	Jackson Kraus	NE	Lincoln Southeast	2020	RHP

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