Norwood Blues

Jake Goebbert (Blues  2005, 2006) was named "Big Ten Player Of The Week" for the fourth time in his three years at Northwestern.  He was called up to the Padres major league roster this June and is currently hitting over .300. Jake has now signed with the Tampa Bay Rays for the 2016 season.

Congrats and Best of luck  JAKE !

Jake Romano (Blues 2010,2011,2012) was selected Mid America Conference Pre-Season "Freshman of the Year". He has now at the close of the season been chosen "MAC Freshman of the Year" Jake , a three year Blues player, is now a Junior outfielder at Miami of Ohio and was chosen to the MAC "ALL Defense Team" having played the entire season without an error.  His offensive numbers were: BA .296, OPS .826, Runs 44.   Great Work Jake !

This is a list of BLUES currently playing in the collegiate ranks.

Noah Stern    Barry University

Eli Mercado  Longwood University

Mitchell Goll   Illinois Wesleyan

John McHugh   Oakton College

Sam Nozicka     Eastern Illinois University

Trey Compton  Elmhurst College 

Kenny Serwa    S.I.U. Edwardsville

Kyle Mitter      Benedictine University

Joe LaCivita     Illinois, Springfield

.Paul Cappetta     Edgewood College                                                              

Ryan Miller        Benedictine University

Jake Romano     Miami of Ohio

Justin Mills         Tufts

Tommy O'Hara    Tufts

Sam Reichert   Wheaton

Cody Carroll   Bradley University

Henry Singer    Washington University/St. Louis

Jack Linforth    Central College, Iowa 

Drew Thomas      Coppin State

Jeff Mustari   Oakton J.C.

Gianfranco Sorrentino     Oakton J.C.

Matt Willett    Carthage 

Sam Kindle    Oakton J.C.

Tom Kunzer   Simpson College

George Sherman   Dominican University

 Tony Barreca       Georgetown University

   

 

 

The Blues have over the past several years had a number of players selected as recipients of the NABF College Scholarship Award. Benefactors of this very selective, national award and the year of the scholarship include: Michael Rolih 1998 Michael Brown 2000 Matt Martino 2001 Kevin Zalnis 2004 Quinn Ewert 2005 David Hoffman 2007 Ryan McMillin 2008 Ethan Blumenthal 2010

The Norwood Blues began play in 1987,and advanced to the Semi-finals of the Midwest AABC Regional in that first year. The next year the Blues won the Mideast NABF Regional in Hilliard, Ohio and advanced to the National Finals in Youngstown where they finished the season as National Runner-up. Since then the Blues have had numerous highly successful seasons, with Regional Titles and World Series appearances in 1988, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005  2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. The 1988 and 1999 clubs were National Runners-up. The 2003 Blues finished Third in the Nation. The 2006 club finished Fourth.  The 2007, 2009 2010 and 2011 teams Fifth. The 2015 Blues won Six Tournament Titles during the course of the summer. Numerous players have gone on to have very distinguished college and professional careers. Also, several have been selected from the Blues to play in the USA Baseball Tournament of Stars, which serves as the entry for the USA Junior Team and a number have been recipients of the NABF College Scholarship. Today there are a number of former Blues players who, having completed their careers as players, have entered the coaching ranks both at the high school and collegiate levels.