By Matt Huck
Area Scout

This week at PBR Illinois we got our first look at the initial Overall Class of 2020 rankings and started to run down the top stories and most clicked player profiles of 2016. Next week will be the final Showcase of 2016 with the Winter Open in the Quad Cities and we will continue our top stories and profiles countdown.

Illinois News

Top 10 Stories Of 2016: No. 6 Reed Custer's Dramatic 2A State Title

Walden delivers with an extra-inning walk-off single...>>

Top 10 Player Profiles of 2016: No. 6 Brenden Heiss

Heiss, now at Arkansas, was up to 96 mph at last winters Super 60...>>

Top 10 Stories Of 2016: No. 7 Perennial Power Lincoln-Way North Closes

A perennial force in Illinois High School baseball is no longer...>>

Top 10 Player Profiles of 2016: No. 7 Cal Coughlin

Coughlin, now a freshman at TCU, was ranked No. 4 in the 2016 Illinois class...>>

Top 10 Stories Of 2016: No. 8 Brother Rice Wins 30 Straight

The Crusaders spent five weeks as the No. 1 team in the spring and won 30 in a row...>>

Top 10 Player Profiles of 2016: No. 8 Grant Leader

Leader was one of the few 2019 arms at the Future Games this summer...>>

Top 10 Stories of 2016: No. 9 Mundelein Turns Season Around, State Runner Up

Mundelein won 24 of 27 games after an 8-6 start...>>

Top 10 Player Profiles of 2016: No. 9 Drake Fellows

Fellows was a 2016 Super 60 participant and one of the top arms in the 2016 class...>>

Top 10 Player Profiles of 2016: No. 10 Andrew Wiegman

First 2019 off the board committed to Louisville...>>

Top 10 Stories Of 2016: No. 10 IHSA Implements Pitch Count

New pitch count policy implented for the 2017 season...>>

National News

The Buzz: Woods-Richardson Flips To Texas

The latest recruiting news from the PBR coverage area...>>

Initial 2020 Overall Rankings Released

Hendrick, Ortiz, Wohlgemuth, Norris, Nixon headline Top 50 list...>>

On the Hunt: Nationally Ranked 2020 Two-Way Prospects, Infielders, and Arms

Big, projectable 2020 future studs including four left-handed arms...>>

The Hotlist: Top Freshmen Prospects

Looking at the top 2020s in the PBR coverage area...>>

The Tall And Short Of Hit

Looking at the correlation between height and batting average...>>

PBR Week in Review

A look back at the top stories from Dec. 12-18...>>