{"id":9699,"date":"2017-07-12T16:43:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T16:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/rochester-honkers\/?p=9699"},"modified":"2017-07-12T16:43:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T16:43:29","slug":"two-honkers-selected-participate-northwoods-league-home-run-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/rochester-honkers\/2017\/07\/12\/two-honkers-selected-participate-northwoods-league-home-run-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Honkers Selected to Participate in Northwoods League Home Run Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>Hart, Zubia will compete in the Home Run Derby in Wausau, Wis. on July 18<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>(Rochester Minn.) &ndash; <\/strong>The Northwoods League announced the selections to the 2017 Northwoods League Home Run Derby. Two Rochester Honkers, Jordan Hart (Minnesota State-Mankato) and Zach Zubia (Texas) will represent the North Division in the derby. Zubia was named to the NWL North Division All-Star Team on July 7.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hart, a Lyle, Minn. native, is second on the team with six home runs this season. The outfielder has 16 RBIs and 15 runs scored in 31 games. He has doubled five times and tripled once for the Honkers this season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tZubia leads the Northwoods League with 14 home runs through 42 games. He is six home runs shy of the Northwoods League single-season home run record of 20 set by Paul DeJong of the Wisconsin Woodchucks in 2014. Zubia also leads the league in runs batted in (42), is third in runs scored (39), and fourth in doubles (12). He is batting .331 this season with three multi-home run games. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe 2017 Northwoods League All-Star game will be held at Athletic Park in Wausau, Wis. on Tuesday, July 18. The Home Run Derby will begin at 5:00 p.m. First pitch of the All-Star Game will be 7:05 p.m.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t<em>###<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>The Rochester Honkers are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. The 23-year-old summer collegiate league is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 20 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, 180 former Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including two-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (WAS), two-time World Series Champion Ben Zobrist (CHC) and MLB All-Stars Chris Sale (BOS), Jordan Zimmermann (DET), Curtis Granderson (NYM) and Lucas Duda (NYM). &nbsp;All league games are viewable live via the <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/portal.stretchinternet.com\/nwl\/\"><em>Northwoods League portal<\/em><\/a><em>. For more information, visit <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochesterhonkers.com\">www.rochesterhonkers.com<\/a><em> or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play and set the Honkers as your favorite team.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hart, Zubia will compete in the Home Run Derby in Wausau, Wis. on July 18 &nbsp; (Rochester Minn.) &ndash;  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9700,"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-9699","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) - 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