Prep Baseball Report

2020 Midwest Select Field Announced


PBR Staff

The 2020 PBR Midwest Select is set to take place April 10-11 at Grand Park in Westfield, IN, and will consist of 16 teams from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. Each team will be playing for state pride, as they will be matched up against their surrounding states.

The 2020 class includes two teams from Ohio, four from Michigan, four from Illinois and six from Indiana. The event is a round robin format with top draft prospects from the Midwest squaring off in what has become a must attend spring event for scouts in the Midwest region.

Here are the participating teams for 2020:

Center Grove HS, IN
Columbus East HS, IN
Columbus North HS, IN
Edgewood HS, IN
Edwardsville HS, IL
Gull Lake HS, MI
Homewood-Flossmoor HS, IL
Jeffersonville HS, IN
Joliet Catholic HS, IL
Lawrence North HS, IN
Mason HS, OH
Moeller HS, OH
Portage Central HS, MI
Portage Northern HS, MI
Orchard Lakes St. Mary’s Prep, MI
St. Viator HS, IL

Portage Northern, Moeller, Joliet Catholic and Edwardsville will be making their third appearance in the PBR Midwest Select, while Mason, Portage Central, Gull Lake, Edgewood and Columbus North are making their second. Several prospects in PBR’s 2020 Overall Rankings will be in attendance including SS Bryce Eblin (Center Grove HS, IN), C Dalton Back (Columbus East HS, IN), RHP Casper Clark (Columbus North HS, IN), OF Grant Trinkle (Columbus North HS, IN), 1B Drake Westcott (Edwardsville HS, IL), SS Dylan Stanton (Gull Lake HS, MI), SS Tre Hondras (Homewood-Flossmoor HS, IN), SS Christian Knapczyk (Joliet Catholic HS, IL), RHP Zach Hise (Joliet Catholic HS, IL), RHP Ty Johnson (Lawrence North HS, IN), RHP Seth Logue (Moeller HS, OH), LHP Logan Wood (Orchard Lake St. Mary’s Prep, MI) and RHP Jack Mahoney (St. Viator HS, IL).

A few top 2021s will also be in attendance including SS Luke Leto (Portage Central HS, MI), C Austin Bode (Columbus North HS, IN), RHP Luke Hayden (Edgewood HS, IN) and SS Alex Mooney (Orchard Lake St. Mary’s Prep, MI).

Portage Northern (MI) and Edwardsville (IL) both claimed state titles in 2019. LHP Avery Short (Southport HS, IN), a 12th round pick of the Arizona Diamondbacks, pitched in the 2019 event. In 2018, OF Nick Schnell (Roncalli HS, IN) went off, going 5-for-9 with two triples and a double across three games. He was selected in the first round that year by the Tampa Bay Rays.

Team previews will be released during the week leading up to the event, and all Midwest Select information, rosters and schedules can be found HERE.

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