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Future Hawks
2010 HCC Commits- Brinn Bell, Rock Island HS
- Ryder Borre, New Trier HS
- Kevin Borst, St. Charles North HS
- Tyler Buhs, Gibson City HS
- Michael Collins, Normal West HS
- Michael Failoni, Edwardsville HS
- Josh Golliver, Francis Howell HS (MO)
- Jerad Grundy, Johnsburg HS
- Aaron Hauge, Homewood Flossmoor HS
- Dylan Johnson, Bloomington HS
- Alex Ludwig, Bloomington HS
- Kendall Radcliffe, Morgan Park HS
- Chris Richter, West Aurora HS
- Drew Sabol, Streator HS
- Jeremy Stawychny, East Leyden HS
- Clint Stroud, Olympia HS
- Mitch Tielke, Grayslake Central HS
- Aaron Vogt, Eureka HS (MO)
Hawks Moving On
- Jon Weaver, Central Michigan University
- Tony Sanchez, Chicago State University
- RJ Bachtold, Hannibal-LaGrange College
- Eric Aguilera, Illinois State University
- Bryan Huff, Illinois State University
- Jacob Hadsall, North Central College
- Dillon Napoleon, University of Alabama-Birmingham
- Bobby Martin, Valparaiso University
- Colin Sallee, Washington Adventist University
- Matt Igara, Western Illinois University
- Steve Kedroski, Western Illinois University
- Ryan Wachholder, Western Illinois University
- Alex Zarate, Western Illinois University
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Baseball
Heartland Hawks 2010 Baseball Team
2010 Awards
NJCAA Baseball D-II- All-American First Team
Eric Aguilera - All-American Third Team
Dillon Napoleon
- M-WAC Player of the Year - Eric Aguilera
- M-WAC Pitcher of the Year - Dillon Napoleon
- M-WAC Freshman of the Year - Zac Zellers
- M-WAC Coach of the Year - Coach Nate Metzger
- All-Conference First Team
Eric Aguilera, Bryan Huff, Matt Igara, Dillon Napoleon - All-Conference Second Team
Zac Johnson, Zac Zellers - All-Conference Honorable Mention
Jon Weaver
- Region 24 Player of the Year
Eric Aguilera - All-Region 24 Team
Eric Aguilera, Bryan Huff, Matt Igara, Dillon Napoleon - Rawlings Gold Glove Team
Bryan Huff, Short Stop - Region 24 Coach of the Year
Coach Nate Metzger
News
6/14/2010 - Michael Stalter, former Olympia High School, Heartland Community College, and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale shortstop has signed a professional contract with the Southern Illinois Miners Baseball Team in Marion, IL. The Miners have jumped out to an impressive 18-4 mark to lead the Frontier League, the same league that the Normal Cornbelters play in.
Stalter recently completed his senior year of college at SIU-C where he started at shortstop for each of the past two seasons after doing the same at Heartland CC. Stalter was somewhat disappointed not to be selected in last week’s MLB Draft, but certainly is excited to begin his professional career with the Miners. Stalter commented “I just want to go out and play and hopefully get picked up by an affiliated club.”
5/17/2010 - The Heartland Hawks win their first conference title and earn the #1 seed in the Region 24 Tournament. The Hawks won 20 straight conference games to end 26-4 in conference play. Heartland will face off against #8 seeded Lewis & Clark Community College in the Region Tournament Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at Lanphier Field. Please visit M-WAC Baseball for Region Tournament bracket.
5/15/2010 - The Hawks traveled to Danville Friday for a double header; looking to secure their first MWAC regular season title in the program’s 3 year history and they did just that taking both games from the Jaguars by 10-0 scores.
CF, Matt Igara drove in four runs, RF, Eric Aguilera was 2-for-3 with two RBI and Zac Zellers, Steve Kedroski, and Zac Johnson had one RBI each in the game one victory.
In game two, Matt Igara and Andy Burns were both 3-for-3 with two RBI each. Burns hit his first home run of the season to open the scoring and Eric Aguilera added his team leading 17th home run of the season as well.
5/14/2010 - On Saturday, the Hawks finished the regular season while opening the new Heartland Stadium! Freshman, Zac Johnson (Normal Community) lead the team going 3-for-5 while driving in three runs. Johnson’s one out double in the first inning opened Heartland’s scoring. The Hawks built an early 5-1 lead, but Danville came back to tie things with three runs in the top of the seventh, tying the game 5-5. Josh Levy broke the tie with a run scoring single in the bottom half of the seventh, which held up behind the scoreless relief pitching of Scott Houdek. Houdek earned his first win of the season pitching 2 1/3 innings. Heartland ends regular season play 42-9 and 26-4 in M-WAC.
5/5/2010 - Sophomore, Alex Zarate, earned Pitcher of the Week honors for the week of April 26 - May 2.
4/14/2010 - Sophomore, Jon Weaver, earned Pitcher of the Week honors for the week of April 5 - April 11.
3/31/2010 - Freshman, Chris Razo, earned Pitcher of the Week honors for the week of March 22 - March 28.
3/25/2010 - Sophomore, Dillon Napoleon, earned Pitcher of the Week honors for the week of March 15 - March 21.
2/1/2010 - In NJCAA Pre-season Polls the Hawks are ranked second in the nation D-II.
1/29/2010 - Heartland baseball is ranked 22nd in the Perfect Game USA pre-season baseball rankings. These rankings include all junior college divisions. RHP, Dillon Napoleon is at number 85 on the list of top prospect players.
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For more information on Heartland Baseball, or on becoming a Heartland Hawk, please either fill out and return a player profile form and/or contact Nate Metzger.
*All Hawk baseball home games will be played off campus at McLean County PONY Baseball Complex, unless otherwise stated on the schedule page. The PONY fields are located southeast of town on the corner of Towanda Barnes Road and Ireland Grove Road in Bloomington, IL.
