LA CROSSE, WI – With an entire coaching staff back and a hometown two-way athlete already returning for 2010, the La Crosse Loggers baseball announced the return of two more key cogs from the 2009 club. Outfielder Boomer Collins (Nebraska) and infielder Blair Moore (San Diego State) will both dawn Logger uniforms again next season, team officials announced today.

Collins, a sophomore from Waxahachie, Texas will join sophomore Tony Mueller in the Logger outfield to form a very athletic duo. The 6-0, 185 pound right-handed hitter appeared in 60 games for the Lumbermen in 2009, hitting .180 with three homer and 18 RBI’s. Perhaps his biggest hit came in Game #2 of the NWL Championship Series when he drove in the go-ahead run in the bottom of the eighth inning in the Loggers 5-4 victory. Collins was also honored as a Rawlings Finest in the Field award recipient this past summer as he did not commit a single error in 60 games played.

Freshman Blair Moore will also be returning for his second season in La Crosse, following a summer in which he became the first high school senior ever to play for the Loggers. Moore joined the Lumbermen in late July and appeared in 17 games hitting .204 over 49 at-bats with 5 RBI’s during the regular season. The 6-1, 180 pound left-handed hitter really grew up in the 2009 post-season as he led the Loggers in hits (7) over the five post-season games with one home run, two RBI’s and he hit at a .333 clip during that span.

Moore was also highly recruited out of Riverside Poly High School (Riverside, Calif.) as he earned honorable mention all-American honors from Collegiate Baseball this past spring.