Baseball Signs 11 for Next Season

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Nov. 11, 2009

NORMAN, Okla. -- Oklahoma baseball head coach Sunny Golloway announced the signing of 11 student athletes as part of the 2010 signing class on Wednesday. The recruits signed National Letters of Intent on the first day of the early signing period and are set to join the Sooners next fall.

The OU coaching staff inked eight high school players, including four Oklahoma products, and three players from the junior college ranks. The Sooners concentrated on adding players to bolster the pitching staff while also landing two infielders and a catcher.

"Our primary focus for this recruiting class was pitching," said Golloway. "We wanted to sign players that could help us out immediately. We also signed a lot of arms in last year's class to help replace the five pitchers drafted in 2009. The coaching staff did stellar job of landing an outstanding class. We look forward to getting them all on campus next fall and seeing them compete."

The signees from Oklahoma feature some of the best prep stars from the state, including the top rated player (Perfect Game) in Cayle Shambaugh, a left-handed pitcher from Jay High School. Joining Shambaugh from the Sooner state are RHP Cale Coshow (Deer Creek H.S.), C/3B Casey Coyle (PC North H.S.) and LHP Dillon Overton (Weatherford H.S.).

Four prep players south of the Red River will join the Sooners in RHP Steven Bruce (Flower Mound H.S.), INF C.J. Jarvis (Houston Christian H.S.) and RHP Kindle Ladd (McKinney North H.S.). Rounding out the group of high school recruits is RHP Conner Sadzeck from Crystal Lake, Ill. (Crystal Lake Central H.S.).

The Sooners' junior college recruits include infielder Evan Mistich from Panola Junior College and right-handers Clay Schrader from San Jacinto College and Burch Smith from Howard J.C.

Overall, three of the recruits (Coshow, Sadzeck and Shambaugh) are rated by Perfect Game Crosschecker as prospects for the 2010 MLB Draft.

CONNER SADZECK

Crystal Lake Central High School
Crystal Lake, Illinois.
RHP
R/R
6-5
195
• Son of Steve and Pam
• Coached by Dan Bagley at Crystal Lake Central H.S.
• In 2009, was 6-3 with 2.98 ERA and 73 strikeouts
• Pitched one no-hitter in 2009 and two one-hitters
• Played in Area Code Games for White Sox in summer
• Ranked No. 205 prospect by Perfect Game for 2010 draft
• Projected as 4th-10th round pick by PG for 2010
• Ranked No. 5 prospect by Illinois Prep Baseball Report
• Also recruited by Iowa, Kansas State and Michigan