University of Southern Indiana Baseball announced the signing of seven incoming freshmen for the 2017 season in the early signing period. USI and Head Coach Tracy Archuleta have signed five incoming student athletes from Indiana and a pair from Kentucky.
Selecting USI to continue their education and begin their collegiate baseball careers are right-handed pitcher Tyler Hagedorn (Evansville, Indiana), outfielder Aaron Euler (Evansville, Indiana), infielder Trevor Ricker (Evansville, Indiana), right-handed pitcher Grant Ellis (Terre Haute, Indiana), left-handed hitting infielder/outfielder Bryce Krizan (Mt. Vernon, Indiana), outfielder Lucas Thatcher (Lexington, Kentucky), and outfielder Garrett Wilson (West Point, Kentucky).
“These seven recruits fit our system very well and we look forward to working with them over the next four years,” said Archuleta. “Assistant Coaches Jeremy Kuester and Caleb Eickhoff have a done a great job finding players that fit our program.”
Biographies of USI Baseball’s fall signees:
Hagedorn: The right-handed hurler was the SIAC Most Valuable Player, the Evansville Player of the Year and the Outstanding Pitcher in 2015 as a junior after going 5-4 with a 0.96 ERA for North High School (Evansville, Indiana)…also lettered in basketball at NHS.
Euler: The left-handed hitting outfielder is a 2015 first-team All-SIAC and All-Metro performer for Reitz High School (Evansville, Indiana) after hitting .385 with 26 RBIs and three home runs as a junior…helped lead RHS to the 2015 baseball sectional title and the 2014 football sectional football crown…also lettered in football at RHS.
Ricker: The right-handed hitting infielder lettered in baseball at Reitz High School (Evansville, Indiana) and helped the Panthers to the 2015 sectional championship…played for the Ironmen Baseball Club, hitting 413 in 2015.
Ellis: The right-handed pitcher has posted an 8-1 record over the last two years for South Vigo High School (Terre Haute, Indiana), going 5-1 as a sophomore and 3-0 as a junior…helped SVHS to the Big 4 and Braves Bash championships in 2014.
Krizan: The left-handed hitting utility player is a two-sports athlete at Mt. Vernon High School (Mt. Vernon, Indiana), lettering in baseball and basketball…helped MVHS to the Big Eight and sectional titles in 2015 with an appearance in the regional finals…batted .517 in 2015 and .467 in 2014 for the Mt. Vernon American Legion…younger brother of current Screaming Eagle Austin Krizan.
Wilson: A right-handed hitting outfielder is a three-sport letterwinner in baseball, basketball, and track at Bullitt East High School (Mount Washington, Kentucky)…has helped BEHS to three district championships in baseball and basketball, in addition to district and regional titles in track.
Thatcher: A right-handed hitting outfielder is a 2015 All-County and a 2014 All-Region performer at East Jessamine High School (Nicholasville, Kentucky).
