As a youth baseball academy, 6-4-3 DP Baseball strives to develop its players into college caliber student-athletes. As a small business in the youth sports industry, the impact our organization has each year is ambiguous or elusive to measure at times. Since 2007, three hundred and four (304) student-athletes (and counting) have graduated from 6-4-3 DP Baseball academy teams and entered the college ranks to continue their baseball careers. This statistic gives our organization great satisfaction and immense pride. This spring, thirty-nine (39) 6-4-3 alumni have recently competed (or are currently competing) in postseason college baseball. Thirty-nine (39) former 6-4-3 players are on rosters competing in 2019 DI, DII, DIII, NAIA, and JUCO regionals, super regionals, and/or world series. This statistic reminds us that our organization does have a strong impact through the tremendously talented student-athletes accomplishing great things in their respective college journeys.
Here is a detailed list of the 39 players:
DI – 9 schools – 16 players
Mercer University – Trevor Austin, Peyton Berry
University of Georgia – Ryan Webb, James Williams, John Cable, Stephen Minter
University of Tennessee – Pete Derkay
Harvard University – Jake Forte
University of Nebraska – Kennet Sorenson
Duke University – Hunter Davis
University of Cincinnati – Jeremy Johnson
Georgia Tech – Brant Hurter, Jamie Taylor, Joseph Mannelly, Hugh Chapman
Jacksonville State University - Tre Kirklin
DII – 1 school – 4 players
Young Harris College – Jackson Jones, Ethan Underwood, Jaeger Keeline, Levi Whitmire
DIII – 5 schools – 10 players
College of Wooster – Jack Jones
Washington & Jefferson – Henry Litman
Birmingham-Southern College – Tyler Hamel, Hyl Kimbrough, Preston Munns, Oliver Livingston, Alfredo Granier, Luke DePiero
Washington University in St. Louis – Rees Viersen
LaGrange College – Baley Coleman
NAIA – 2 schools – 3 players
Middle Georgia State University – MJ Rookard
Georgia Gwinnett College – Alex Garland, Sean Mootrey
JUCO – 2 schools – 6 players
Chattahoochee Valley Community College – Jack Lipson, Joe Taylor, Zach Cable, Austin Zeitler, Parker McCoy
Gordon State College – Jamel Rookard
In a way, this exciting news coming out of the 2019 season makes us feel that we have arrived as a youth baseball academy. In another way, due to the fact that we have so much more talent in the “pipeline,” it feels like we are just getting started!
Congratulations to the young men listed above (and their teammates) for their contributions to their school's wildy successful 2019 baseball season. #643pride #643family