2016 Season

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Fargo Post 2 defeats Mandan and its' LHP starter Parker Harm 5-2 for the ND American Legion Championship.

Throughout the entire North Dakota American Legion Class 2A state baseball tournament, Fargo Post 2 – which has a left-handed dominated batting lineup – hadn’t seen an opposing left-handed pitcher.

That was until Fargo Post 2 saw Mandan for the second time and the Chiefs had their ace Parker Harm.

Despite seeing its first left-handed pitcher, Fargo tagged Harm for five runs early and rode Tyler Anderson’s complete game to a 5-2 win over Mandan to win the state championship on Sunday.....

Aside from the first two innings, Harm – who is signed to play baseball at North Dakota State – allowed just four hits over the next six frames. Mandan head coach Ryne Jungling said Harm and starting catcher Trever Leingang – who is signed to baseball at St. Cloud State (Minn.) – gave the team a chance to win.

“(Fargo) jumped on him early and then Parker changed his approach,” Jungling said. “Trever and Parker have been working together for a long time. I don’t call any pitches. They take care of everything. They took care of it after that. They made some adjustments that were really effective. To hold (Fargo) when we are down 5-0, that was huge and they gave us a chance. A 5-0 lead in these games often turns into 10-0 or 12-0. We had chances, but we just didn’t come out on top.”

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From bisonation.info twitter feed.....

Nick Emanuel @NEmanuel2

Blessed to announce my commitment to play baseball at North Dakota State University. @NDSUbaseball @NDSUathletics pic.twitter.com/fPLCLaYR8L

From Esko MN (2016):

Emanuel, a power-hitting and defensively gifted catcher, will join the Bison baseball team in 2017.

Emanuel batted .413 and tallied 24 RBIs and four homers for the Eskomos this past spring, his third as a starter.

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/spo...h-dakota-state

http://www.wdio.com/article/stories/S3869491.shtml

also from bisonation.info twitter feed.....

Jake Malec @JMalec_19

Proud to announce my commitment to play baseball at North Dakota State University. @NDSUathletics @NDSUbaseball pic.twitter.com/IEbbXWsPYC

Says on his youtube video he is a C/OF from Proctor MN (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVzZhdLhYfU

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More on the Jake Malec commit (C/OF) from the Duluth News Tribune.....

The similarities between Jake Malec and Nick Emanuel already were plenty peculiar before Wednesday.

Both are wildly talented catchers — Malec for Proctor, Emanuel for Esko — who hit, and hit powerfully, from the left side. Both have fathers who played college baseball at Minnesota Duluth, and both are prepping to quarterback their respective football teams as seniors this fall.

Malec became a starter for the Rails midway through his eighth-grade season, and hasn’t left the lineup since. This past spring, he used his smooth lefty swing to bat .431 and produced a .570 on-base percentage. When he wasn’t behind the plate, Malec was flummoxing opposing hitters from the pitching mound, where he posted a dominant 1.73 ERA and fanned 29 in 28.1 innings.

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/spo...-commits-bison

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Football TE Ben Ellefson's Hawley HS QB, Jordan Harms, to play baseball for the Bison:

Harms had a tremendous spring and summer. He had a stretch of 76 strikeouts in 35 innings with a 0.19 ERA.

http://www.wday.com/sports/3815919-h...hool-and-sport

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And one more twitter feed from Bisonation.info a couple days ago.....

K Ferds @KyleFerderer18

Excited to announce my commitment to play baseball at North Dakota State University! @NDSUbaseball #Bison

According to this site's twitter feed Ferderer is a 3B/P and is the 10th ranked prospect in Minnesota.

'16 Kyle Ferderer, RHP/3B, commits to N. Dakota State U. Ferderer ranked #10 @PBRMinnesota 2016 list @KyleFerderer18 pic.twitter.com/J1JnTJN5Zr

https://mobile.twitter.com/PBRMinnes...3905836032?p=v

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NDSU picked 5th (of 6) in the pre-season Summit League baseball poll.

http://thesummitleague.org/sports/bs...20160210iennwb

North Dakota State returns second team (All-Summit League) outfielder Ben Petersen (.355, 28 R).

NDSU was 20-31 (11-19) last season.

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