(esu) Emporia State baseball Coach Seth Wheeler has announced addition of 4 players to wrap up the 2021 recruiting class.
There are 3 transfers and 1 high school player. That brings the total number of new players to 11.
Quinn Cherry • Inf • Nichols State/Crowder CC • Harrison, Ark.
Cherry hit .284 with five home runs, 50 RBI, 47 runs scored, 15 doubles, two triples, and five stolen bases as a sophomore at Crowder. As a freshman, he hit .303 with 11 homers, 50 RBI, 41 runs scored, nine doubles, and two triples. He is the son of former NFL lineman Bill Cherry, who played 28 games at center for the Green Bay Packers in 1986 and 1987.
Noah Geekie • OF/LHP • Barton CC/Foothills Composite • Strathclair, Manitoba
Geekie hit .341 with a .519 slugging percentage, .444 on-base percentage, four doubles and six stolen bases in an abbreviated sophomore season at Barton CC. As a freshman he hit a team high .339 with a .468 slugging percentage and .407 on-base percentage. He led the Cougars with 74 hits and 16 doubles while adding three triples and nine stolen bases on his way to first-team All-Jayhawk West and second-team All-Region VI honors in his first year.
Zachary Ebert • RHP • Kansas State/Johnson CC/Washburn Rural HS • Topeka, Kan.
Ebert worked one inning during the abbreviated 2020 season at Kansas State after earning first-team All-Jayhawk and All-Region VI honors at Johnson CC. He went 18-6 with 212 strikeouts in 165.1 innings and a 3.65 ERA in his two seasons setting school career records for wins and strikeouts. He is just the fifth pitcher in Jayhawk Conference history with at least 200 career strikeouts. He was the 2017 Shawnee County Baseball Player of the Year for Washburn Rural HS. His father Alan Ebert played both football and basketball at Emporia State while his sister Shelby will be a sophomore on the Hornet volleyball team this year.
Jace Essig • UTL • Paradise HS • Paradise, Texas
Essig hit .486 with a .604 on-base percentage and .800 slugging percentage during a shortened senior season at Paradise HS. He had ten RBI and 12 runs scored with ten walks in just 14 games. As a junior he hit .495 with a .551 on-base percentage, .726 slugging percentage, 25 RBI and 25runs scored in 30 games.
Emporia State was 13-7 with a 5-1 record in MIAA play when the season ended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
