The Blackburn College Baseball team will be hosting a three-day Winter Hitting Clinic for high school players, February 13-15 in the Dawes Gymnasium on the campus of Blackburn College. The clinic is broken down into four individual sessions each day and no more than two players from the same high school may register for the same session per Illinois High School Association rules.
Each session will last for two hours and will consist of hitting and bunting drills and instruction on stance, stride, swing path, weight transfer and finish. Each hitter will also be put on video and have analysis through the Right-View Pro hitting computer program.
Clinic instructors include Blackburn College Head Coach Mike Neal who brings twenty years of college-coaching experience to the clinic as well as area high school coaches and Blackburn College players. Also expected to make guest appearances are Bob Simpson co-owner of Hit Repair, a state of the art hitting academy in southern Illinois as well as Rend Lake College Head Coach Tony Etnier.
Players will receive 2 hours of instruction daily and a T-shirt for the cost of $65. For more information or to request a brochure please contact Blackburn coach Mike Neal at (217) 854-3231 ext. 4334 or by email at mneal@blackburn.edu.