{"id":7497,"date":"2016-03-03T15:14:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T15:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/rochester-honkers\/?p=7497"},"modified":"2016-03-03T15:14:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T15:14:58","slug":"saint-marys-gaels-catcher-to-be-a-honker-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/rochester-honkers\/2016\/03\/03\/saint-marys-gaels-catcher-to-be-a-honker-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Mary&#8217;s Gaels Catcher to Be a Honker This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<strong><u>Saint Mary&rsquo;s Gaels Catcher To Be a Honker This Summer<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\n\t<strong>(Rochester, Minn<\/strong>.)&mdash; The Rochester Honkers announced today the signing of catcher Jackson Thoreson from Saint Mary&rsquo;s College in Moraga, California.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThoreson is a 6-foot, 205-pound sophomore catcher from San Jose, Calif.&nbsp; He is currently hitting .375 with one home run, five RBIs and a .625 slugging percentage.&nbsp; He&rsquo;s started four games behind the plate for the 5-4 Gaels but has made seven total appearances.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAs a freshman, Thoreson saw action in 34 games (20 starts), hitting .313 with 15 RBIs while committing only two errors on the season.&nbsp; He also allowed just seven steals in 18 attempts.&nbsp; The left-handed hitter posted a .385 average versus left-handed pitching and also hit .387 in 17 West Coast Conference games.&nbsp; He then played in the summer for the Victoria HarbourCats of the West Coast League where he hit .258 with 22 RBIs over 31 games played.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThoreson graduated from Bellarmine College Prep High School in 2014 where he finished his high school career hitting .290 with 47 RBIs.&nbsp; He earned second team All-West Catholic League honors as a senior and the Billy Schmidt Award for positive attitude.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Rochester Honkers 23<sup>rd<\/sup> season begins on May 31<sup>st<\/sup> when the team travels to Eau Claire, Wisconsin to take on the Express.&nbsp; The following night, Wednesday, June 1<sup>st<\/sup>, the Honkers battle the Express in their home opener at Mayo Field at 7:05 pm. Season Tickets, Bonus Books, Suites and Patios are now available. Call the Rochester Honkers office at 507-289-1170 for more information.&nbsp; The Honkers are also looking for host families for the 2016 season and ask all interested parties to call the business office for more information.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t###\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>The Northwoods League is the proven leader in the development of elite college baseball players. The 22-year old summer collegiate league is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 18 teams, drawing significantly more fans, in a friendly ballpark experience, than any league of its kind. A valuable training ground for coaches, umpires and front office staff, more than 140 Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (WAS) and MLB All-Stars Chris Sale (CWS), Jordan Zimmermann (DET), Curtis Granderson (NYM), Lucas Duda (NYM) and Ben Zobrist (CHC). All league games are viewable live via the Northwoods League website. For more information, visit <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northwoodsleague.com\"><em>www.northwoodsleague.com<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Mary&rsquo;s Gaels Catcher To Be a Honker This Summer (Rochester, Minn.)&mdash; The Rochester Honkers announced today the signing of  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-team-news","category-update-ticker"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Saint Mary&#039;s Gaels Catcher to Be a Honker This Summer - 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