TENNESSEE BASEBALL SIGNING CLASSJared Allen OF 6-2 220 R/R Delano, Tenn.Mookie Betts INF 5-9 160 R/R NashvilleSamuel Davis RHP 6-0 190 R/R Manchester, Tenn.David Horne RHP/3B 6-4 220 R/R Columbia, Tenn.Will Maddox INF 5-11 180 L/R Gainesville, Ga.Eric Martin RHP 6-2 190 R/R Cincinnati, OhioDrew Masingale RHP/OF 6-2 215 R/R Athens, Tenn.Logan Moore C/3B 6-3 200 L/R Loveland, Colo.Sal Romano RHP 6-4 220 L/R Southington, Conn.Jake Rowland OF 6-1 180 L/R Decatur, Tenn.Blake Thomas RHP 5-11 200 R/R Milledgeville, Ga.Joseph Vanderplas LHP 6-2 215 L/L Fairfax, Va.Parker Wormsley INF 6-0 170 R/R KnoxvilleBrandon Zajac LHP 6-4 220 L/L Cleveland, Tenn.
Like 10 other University of Tennessee baseball signees, four Chattanooga-area athletes are stuck in limbo waiting on Volunteers athletic director Mike Hamilton.
“I haven’t heard anything,” Polk County slugger Jared Allen said this past week. “I’m a little concerned. I think anybody in this situation would be. I have talked with some of the other [signees], and they say they’re still going, so that made me feel a little better.”
Allen, Walker Valley pitcher Brandon Zajac, McMinn County pitcher/outfielder Drew Masingale and Meigs County shortstop Jake Rowland signed baseball scholarships with UT last fall. They were recruited by coach Todd Raleigh, who was fired on May 23, and none of the four has been contacted by anyone in UT’s athletic department.
“I haven’t heard from anybody since Raleigh was fired,” Rowland said.