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2015 Team Preview: Oak Hills

February 25, 2015

By Dylan Hefflinger and Alex Schillig
Ohio Editor in Chief/NW Scout and Ohio Assistant Scouting Director

From now until the start of the 2015 season, Prep Baseball Report Ohio will bring you in-depth team previews throughout the entire state. If your coach has not filled out the survey please have him do so through this link.

Along with the team previews, the 2015 Team Rankings will be releasing sometime late February and we hope to bring a Q&A session to discuss the rankings. To view the final regular season rankings of 2014 please click here. To view the preseason rankings from 2014 please click here.

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2015 Team Preview: Oak Hills

School Name: Oak Hills High School
Coaches Name: Chuck Laumann
2014 Record: 18-13
Conference: GMC
Conference Record: 10-8
Division Level: I

Key Players Lost From 2014:

  • Ben Laumann, INF, Thomas More
  • Tyler Harley, C, Thomas More
  • Jayson Essell, RHP, Thomas More
  • Jake Collinsworth, OF
  • Matt Baas, OF/RHP

Number of Returning Starters/Pitchers: 6/6

Strengths of Team:

  • Youth
  • Speed
  • Pitching
  • Defense
  • Baseball IQ

Weaknesses of Team:

  • Depth
  • Hitting 1-9
  • Young

Top Prospects in Class of 2015:

Top Prospects in Class of 2016:

Top Prospects in Class of 2017: 

  • Austin Penwell, 2017, RHP, 6'2 180, R/R

Top Prospects in Class of 2018: 

  • Griffin Kain, 2018, OF/LHP, 6'0 170, R/R
  • Nick Deifel , 2018, INF/C/RHP, 6'0 165, R/R, brother of Kent State Commit Jonathon Deifel

Notable College/MLB Alumni:

  • Jonathan Sweet
  • Josh Richmond
  • Jake Protor
  • Shea Wardell
  • Scott Klingenbeck

Top Headlines for the Buckeye State

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