Baseball Recruiting Class Ranked 27th By Collegiate Baseball
10/1/2003 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Oct. 1, 2003
Winston-Salem, N.C. - The Wake Forest baseball recruiting class was ranked #27 by Collegiate Baseball magazine, the publication announced this week. The Demon Deacons have 10 newcomers including seven freshmen, two junior college transfers and one four-year college transfer to the team.
Five Atlantic Coast Conference teams had recruiting classes rated among the top 30.
The team's 10 newcomers are: Matt Antonelli (INF, Peabody, Mass.), Josh Ellis (RHP, Lexington, Ky.), Justin Keadle (RHP, Cypress (Calif.) JC), Andrew Knox (RHP, Fort Myers, Fla.), Lee Land (3B/RHP, Durham, N.C.), Charlie Mellies (RHP, Clifton, Va.), Matt Miller (OF, Modesto (Calif.) JC), Brian Shust (OF, Long Grove, Ill.), Sean Souders (LHP, Berekley, Calif.), and J.B. Tucker (C, Mississippi State).
The following is the top 30 rankings of NCAA Division I recruiting classes for 2003 as determined by the staff of Collegiate Baseball newspaper.
Rank Newcomers FR JC TR1. North Carolina 10 8 1 1 South Carolina 19 12 7 03. Florida 15 12 3 04. Arizona 11 7 3 15. Texas 17 8 8 16. Louisiana State 8 5 2 17. Oklahoma State 17 5 9 38. Stanford 9 9 0 09. Oklahoma 19 9 9 110. Mississippi 18 11 5 211. Georgia Tech 10 10 0 012. Arizona St. 22 15 6 113. Southern Cal 12 9 3 014. Florida State 13 11 2 015. Miami, Fla. 8 7 1 016. Fresno State 23 10 7 617. Rice 14 9 4 118. CS Fullerton 15 11 3 119. Baylor 10 8 2 020. Stetson 16 14 1 121. Alabama 12 6 6 022. U.C. Irvine 12 10 2 023. Clemson 13 9 3 124. Vanderbilt 14 10 3 125. Santa Clara 9 7 0 226. South Alabama 18 13 2 327. Wake Forest 10 7 2 128. California 15 13 1 129. Notre Dame 11 11 0 030. Long Beach St. 16 7 8 1
