Will be a Junior this year .. Named to Class 7A All-State first team this year as a SO .. interesting comments .. + two links
On the screen, Jordan saw the team’s practices during the Southeastern Conference tournament. He saw the dozens of fans cooking out in the outfield. He saw where he wanted to be a couple of years from now.
“It’s a baseball school,” said Jordan, a rising junior who played centerfield for Auburn High last season. “Like the coaches said, words don’t justify how important baseball is there until you get on campus and learn how many people there are who come to the games. Baseball is their main sport.”
That’s a big reason why Jordan, who was selected as the Opelika-Auburn News’ Hitter of the Year, verbally committed Monday to Mississippi State.
He took a few days to make the decision because “a lot of things were just going on in my head,” he said.
Jordan quickly became the key bat for the Tigers this past season as he emerged as one of the area’s top players in his first year of varsity ball. In 38 games, he scored 44 runs and hit for a .445 average while batting leadoff. He hit 16 doubles, eight home runs and three triples. He drove in 33 runs and only struck out 15 times. Jordan was voted to the Class 7A All-State first team this year by the Alabama Sports Writers Association and also was an O-A News first-team All-Area player.
http://www.oanow.com/sports/high_school/_baseball/article_e2efec80-e887-11e4-b574-c394f43090cb.html
http://www.oanow.com/sports/high_school/_baseball/article_4bada614-34b8-11e5-9437-bf462950a974.html
On the screen, Jordan saw the team’s practices during the Southeastern Conference tournament. He saw the dozens of fans cooking out in the outfield. He saw where he wanted to be a couple of years from now.
“It’s a baseball school,” said Jordan, a rising junior who played centerfield for Auburn High last season. “Like the coaches said, words don’t justify how important baseball is there until you get on campus and learn how many people there are who come to the games. Baseball is their main sport.”
That’s a big reason why Jordan, who was selected as the Opelika-Auburn News’ Hitter of the Year, verbally committed Monday to Mississippi State.
He took a few days to make the decision because “a lot of things were just going on in my head,” he said.
Jordan quickly became the key bat for the Tigers this past season as he emerged as one of the area’s top players in his first year of varsity ball. In 38 games, he scored 44 runs and hit for a .445 average while batting leadoff. He hit 16 doubles, eight home runs and three triples. He drove in 33 runs and only struck out 15 times. Jordan was voted to the Class 7A All-State first team this year by the Alabama Sports Writers Association and also was an O-A News first-team All-Area player.
http://www.oanow.com/sports/high_school/_baseball/article_e2efec80-e887-11e4-b574-c394f43090cb.html
http://www.oanow.com/sports/high_school/_baseball/article_4bada614-34b8-11e5-9437-bf462950a974.html
