WPIAL baseball players at the next level

West Penn Baseball Prospects (www.wpabaseball.com) runs an extraordinary amount of information about baseball at various level throughout the region. As a recent e-mail release states, "West Penn Baseball Prospects is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to help create opportunities for local student-athletes to play college baseball."

They recently completed a survey of college and junior college baseball rosters for WPIAL and District 8 products and found 586 current players, with 86 playing at the Division I level.

WPB broke down the top high school producers of college talents by classification.

Class AAAA
1. Seneca Valley 26
2. North Allegheny 20
3. Bethel Park 16
Butler 16
5. Pittsburgh Central Catholic 15

Class AAA
1. Blackhawk 17
2. Chartiers Valley 11
3. West Allegheny 10
4. Laurel Highlands 9
5. Hopewell 8

Class AA
1. Center 8
Riverside 8
3. South Fayette 6
Steel Valley 6
5. Seton-La Salle 5

Class A
1. Geibel 5
2. Chartiers-Houston 4
Neshannock 4
Rochester 4
Vincentian Academy 4