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TCU Trio Listed Among Baseball America's Top Prospects
Sept. 1, 2009 DURHAM, N.C.-- Three TCU players landed on Baseball America's top prospects lists for 18 different summer college leagues and Team USA. Among those earning a nod by the national magazine were Horned Frogs junior outfielder Jason Coats, junior pitcher Greg Holle and sophomore shortshop Taylor Featherston. The TCU trio was part of a Horned Frog squad that finished the 2009 campaign with a 40-18 record and Top 20 rankings in five different national polls, including a No. 11 listing in the National Collegiate Baseball Writer's Association (NCBWA) poll. The Mountain West Conference regular-season champions were tabbed as a No. 1 seed in NCAA Tournament action for the first time in school history and hosted an NCAA Regional. TCU swept through the Regional and became the first MWC team to advance to a Super Regional, where they forced a decisive game three against national No. 1 seed and eventual College World Series runner-up Texas. The Frogs were one of just two teams to force a game three in the Super Regional round of the playoffs. Coats was the eighth-ranked player out of the Alaska League, batting .325 with 30 RBI and 25 runs scored while helping the Anchorage Glacier Pilots to a runner-up finish in the 2009 National Baseball Congress World Series. Featherston batted a team-high .321 with 12 RBI and 13 runs scored for the New Bedford Bay Sox. He was ranked as the No. 6 player in the New England Collegiate Baseball League, Holle was the fourth-ranked player out of the New York Collegiate Baseball League, posting a 1-2 record and 3.92 earned run average for the Saratoga Phillies. Mississippi and Washington State led all schools by placing five players apiece on BA's top prospects lists. Last summer, Louisiana State and Texas each led the nation with five players apiece on BA's summer league lists, and those two teams wound up facing off for the national championship at the College World Series. Baseball America ranked the top 30 prospects for the talent-rich Cape Cod League, and the top 10 prospects in 17 other summer college leagues. In addition, the top 20 Team USA prospects were ranked.
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