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College | Rankings | 9/25/2015

Top Junior College Recruits

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In this fourth and final feature focusing on some of the top prospects and recruiting efforts for the 2015-16 college year we turn our attention to the Junior College ranks as well as identifying some of the top recruiters from across the nation.

Below is the ranking of the top 31 players that have honored their Junior College commitments as well as 50 notable players that have transferred from the Junior College level to notable Division I universities. The first table was assembled by using Perfect Game's class of 2015 high school player rankings.

The second table is sorted by the college commitment (listed alphabetically), but the names were procured using several Perfect Game rankings, including the top overall Junior College prospects as ranked by Allan Simpson last spring, the top Junior College prospects as identified by Perfect Game prior to the 2015 MLB Draft as well as those taken in the draft that did not sign.

Top 2015-16 Junior College Recruits

RK	Player	POS.	Hometown	ST	Commitment
1	Nicholas Shumpert	SS	Lone Tree	CO	San Jacinto (Texas)
2	Kep Brown	OF	Mount Pleasant	SC	Spartanburg Methodist (S.C.)
3	Mike Hickman	C	Katy	TX	Chipola (Fla.)
4	Tekwaan Whyte	SS	Stone Mountain	GA	Chipola (Fla.)
5	Ryan January	C	Swampscott	MA	San Jacinto (Texas)
6	Ethan Skender	SS	Metamora	IL	State College of Florida
7	Santi Santa Cruz	RHP	Sahuarita	AZ	Central Arizona
8	Shane Potter	1B	Encinitas	CA	Central Arizona
9	Ty Buck	3B	Red Wing	MN	Iowa Western
10	Bryan Scheker	OF	Clermont	FL	Tallahassee (Fla.)
11	Francisco Arias	RHP	Brandon	FL	Seminole State (Fla.)
12	Garrett Hutson	RHP	Olathe	KS	San Jacinto (Texas)
13	Brandon Hill	OF	Lilburn	GA	Chattahoochee Valley (Ga.)
14	Austin Moore	RHP	Huntington Beach	CA	Orange Coast (Ca.)
15	Jesus Gamez	RHP	Dover	OK	Seminole State (Okla.)
16	Bowden Francis	RHP	Tallahassee	FL	Chipola (Fla.)
17	Liam Scafariello	OF	Southington	CT	San Jacinto (Texas)
18	Kyle Wilson	RHP	Raymore	MO	Crowder (Mo.)
19	Kristjan Storrie	RHP	Langley	BC	Galveston College (Texas)
20	Zachary “KH” Kapihe	RHP	Ewa Beach	HI	San Jacinto (Texas)
21	Jaxxon Fagg	1b	Gilbert	AZ	Yavapai (Az.)
22	Tyler Huggins	C	Boynton Beach	FL	Palm Beach St (Fla.)
23	JD Williams	SS	Brampton	ON	State College of Florida
24	Malcolm Grady	RHP	Homewood	IL	Wabash Valley (Ill.)
25	Casey Cobb	RHP	Hamilton	GA	Gulf Coast CC (Fla.)
26	Canice Ejoh	OF	Brampton	ON	Cochise College (Az.)
27	Elijah MacNamee	OF	Cypress	TX	Blinn College (Texas)
28	Jarod Bayless	RHP	Texarkana	TX	San Jacinto (Texas)
29	Luke Maddox	IF	Gainesville	GA	St. Johns River CC (Fla.)
30	Kevin Lara	RHP	Kissimmee	FL	Seminole State (Fla.)
31	Ethan Franklin	RHP	Houston	TX	San Jacinto CC (Texas)

Junior College Transfers to Division I Programs

Player	POS.	Commitment	Previous School
J.C. Cloney	LHP	Arizona	College of the Canyons (Calif.)
Dalton Thomas	C	Arkansas Little Rock	Meridian (Miss.)
Gabriel Klobosits	RHP	Auburn	Galveston (Texas)
Ben Braymer	LHP	Auburn	LSU-Eunice
Niko Buentello	1B	Auburn	Grayson (Texas)
Octavio Rodriguez	LHP	Auburn	Navarro (Texas)
Josh Palacios	OF	Auburn	San Jacinto (Texas)
Darick Hall	1B/RHP	Dallas Baptist	Cochise (Ariz.)
Mandy Alvarez	3B	Eastern Kentucky	Miami-Dade (Fla.)
Colyn O'Connell	RHP	Florida Atlantic	Miami-Dade (Fla.)
Dustin Hersey	RHP	Florida State	St. Johns River (Fla.)
Blake Cairnes	RHP	Georgia	Georgia Perimeter
Devin Vainer	LHP	Georgia State	Georgia Perimeter
Brick Paskiewicz	OF/RHP	Grand Canyon	Paradise Valley (Ariz.)
Clay Casey	OF	Houston	Northwest Mississippi
Alexander Krupa	OF	Indiana	Iowa Western
Mitch McIntyre	RHP	Indiana State	Iowa Western
Mason McCoy	SS	Iowa	Illinois Central
Rich Lovelady	LHP	Kennesaw State	East Georgia
Steven Sensley	OF	Louisiana-Lafayette	LSU-Eunice
Ishmael Edwards	OF	Louisiana-Lafayette	Howard (Texas)
Riley Smith	RHP	LSU	San Jacinto (Texas)
Zach Winn	RHP	Maine	Howard (Texas)
Chad Smith	RHP	Mississippi	Wallace State-Hanceville (Ala.)
Austin Sanders	RHP	Mississippi	Hinds (Miss.)
Brian Browning	LHP	Mississippi	Northwest Florida State
Nate Lowe	1B	Mississippi State	St. Johns River (Fla.)
Kyle Smith	RHP	NC State	Lenoir (N.C.)
Kevin Ginkel	RHP	Nevada	Southwestern (Calif.)
Trevor Charpie	RHP	Nevada	Saddleback College (Calif.)
Greg Popylisen	OF	New Mexico State	El Paso (Texas)
Garrett Benge	3B	Oklahoma State	Cowley County (Kan.)
Collin Theroux	C	Oklahoma State	San Joaquin Delta (Calif.)
Alex Vargas	RHP	Quinnipiac	Monroe (N.Y.)
Trent Goodrich	SS	Sacramento State	South Mountain (Ariz.)
Dom Thompson-Willilams	OF	South Carolina	Iowa Western
Peter Strzelecki	RHP	South Florida	Palm Beach State (Fla.)
Brad Labozzetta	RHP	South Florida	Polk State (Fla.)
Ryan McAuliffe	RHP	St. John's	Northern Essex (Mass.)
Mitch Sewald	RHP	TCU	LSU-Eunice
Ryan Merrill	SS	TCU	Iowa Western
Joel Davis	OF	Texas A&M	Seminole State (Okla.)
Chris Falwell	LHP	Texas A&M-Corpus Christi	Cisco (Texas)
Chandler Eden	RHP	Texas Tech	Yavapai (Ariz.)
Chris Oakley	RHP	Tulane	Florence-Darlington (S.C.)
Jarret DeHart	OF	Tulane	Howard (Texas)
Austin Sodders	LHP	UC Riverside	Riverside (Calif.)
Dean Kremer	RHP	UNLV	San Joaquin Delta (Calif.)
Dalton Viner	RHP	Wichita State	San Jacinto (Texas)
Zach Lewis	RHP	Wichita State	Wabash Valley (Ill.)

We have great respect and appreciation for all the college coaches that spend so much time away from home looking to find the players to take their programs to the next level. There are so many that deserved to be recognized, as here’s just 10 of the Division I coaches, whose programs are ranked outside the top 25 classes, who are everywhere and putting in the work to find the right players to make their programs successful.

Toby Bicknell- Air Force
Teddy Warrecker-Cal Poly
Jonathan Anderson-Dartmouth
Josh Jordan-Duke
Derek Simmons-Kennesaw State
Rob Vaughn-Maryland
Brian Anderson-Penn State
Aric Thomas-Tennessee
J-Bob Thomas-Texas Tech
Robert Woodard-Virginia Tech

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