The Waterloo Bucks have announced right-handed pitcher Derek Lamacchia will return to play for the Bucks in 2012. Lamacchia (pronounced luh-MOCK-e-uh), a junior at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, is the first player to be named to the Waterloo roster for the team's 18th season.
The Battle Creek Bombers have re-signed one of their top performers from the 2011 Northwoods League Championship team, All-Star outfielder Daniel Rockett of the University of Texas at San Antonio.
The Waterloo Bucks have announced the hiring of Miles Miller as their pitching coach for the 2012 season. Currently, Miller is the pitching coach at Philadelphia University, a member of the Division II Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference.
The La Crosse Loggers have retained a pair of arms from their 2011 club as the tenth-year franchise announced the signings of pitchers Zach Wright (Washington) and Jordan Haseltine (San Francisco) today to their 2012 roster. Wright and Haseltine join returnee Bobby Juan (Minnesota) and catcher Tyler Servais (Princeton) on the list of Logger signees to-date.
The Wisconsin Rapids Rafters have hired a new manager for 2012. Actually, he is a very familiar face to the organization. The team announced today that it has named Jake Martin as the third manager in Rafters history.
The Madison Mallards are pleased to announce the hiring of Keith Ritsche as their pitching coach for the 2012 season. Ritsche comes from Winston-Salem State University where he is in his second year as the pitching coach for the Rams.
The La Crosse Loggers baseball club announced an addition to their 2012 roster and it's another name that La Crosse area baseball fans are quite familiar with. Tyler Servais, the son of former big league catcher and current Los Angeles Angels assistant general manager Scott Servais, will be dawning the Logger green in 2012.
Fans of the Northwoods League have been treated to seeing some of the top talent play middle infield over the past two seasons for the Willmar Stingers. This coming year the organization hopes its latest players who signed this week will follow in same footsteps as former Stingers standouts such as; Jason Leblebijian, Rob Elliot, Carter Bell and Carlos Leyva.
The Willmar Stingers of the Northwoods League announced today that pitching coach Tyler Shepple will return for his third season with the club. This week the Stingers also announced four additional players to the 2012 team, which now brings the roster to 16 players committed for the upcoming season.
The Willmar Stingers announced that eight players will be back with the organization during its third season of Northwoods League baseball in Willmar.
