College updates ...

A few updates on area baseball players on the college level:

St. Mary products Eric and Jonathan Roof had solid springs at Michigan State. Eric Roof, a junior, won the Spartans' catching job and hit .308 with three home runs and 33 RBI, the team's second-highest total. Jonathan Roof started every game at shortstop as a freshman, hitting .299 with two homers and 25 RBI. Michigan State finished 24-29 this spring.

Gabriel Shaw, their former St. Mary teammate, will work out of the bullpen for Louisville in the NCAA tournament. The Cardinals won the Big East tournament over the weekend, earning the league's automatic bid. Shaw allowed one run in two innings in the tournament, pitching in both the semifinal win over Villanova and the championship-game victory over Georgetown. Shaw is 4-4 with five saves and a 5.91 ERA. His biggest problem has been with the long ball, giving up eight homers in 45.2 innings.

Clint Tilford was slated to pitch Kentucky's fourth game in the SEC tournament, but the Wildcats were eliminated by Alabama on Friday night. Tilford is 3-0 with a 4.06 ERA for Kentucky, which will find out its NCAA tournament assignment later today.

Brock Wright, Tilford's teammate at Heath and UK, had a tough injury-riddled spring. Wright had only a handful of at-bats this spring due to hand and wrist injuries and found out last week that he will miss the entire summer with a sprained ligament in his left wrist.

Chris Clark, a Reidland alum, hit .399 with four homers and 58 RBI in 59 games at Delta State, which finished 48-11 and a win shy of a spot in the the Division II College World Series. Clark, a third baseman, also had a .494 on-base percentage.

Former Heath star Brandon Braboy was an all-conference pitcher at the University of Indianapolis, a Division II program. Braboy was 8-3 with a 3.61 ERA with 28 walks and 78 strikeouts in 87 innings. Carlisle County grad Tim Dunn finished with as 12-1 record and an ERA under 2.00 with southern Illinois juco power John A. Logan.