NC High School Preview: Providence
February 16, 2017
By Brandon Hall, Ed Hall, and Staff
PBR NC
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With the 2017 spring season right around the corner, PBR North Carolina is anticipating a great spring. This is the first year of coverage for PBR during the high school season. In the coming weeks and months, PBR will report on games, players, conference races and the state tournament. It is the aim of PBR North Carolina to become your #1 source for high school baseball.
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Team Preview
Providence
Coach Danny Hignight
Classification 4A
Conference Name So-Meck 8
2016 Stats
Record 30-5
Conference Finish 1st
State Playoffs Regional Final
2017 Outlook
# of Returning Starters 3
# of Returning Pitchers 3
What to Watch For
Coach Hignight guided Providence to another Regional Final in 2016 and has graduated five high school all-americans in the past two years. The lineup will have a lot of new faces, but the expectations will remain the same in 2017. The Panthers return three arms that saw action last year, and each will be asked to take a bigger role. There are questions on how, but there is talent to win and play late into the year.
Players to Watch
Cole Revels, Util, 2017
Cameron Bare, INF/OF, 2017 – Gardner Webb commit
Satchel Jerzemback, INF, 2017 – North Carolina commit
Will Palinkas, 3B/RHP, 2018
Timmy Townsend, RHP, 2018
Ray Torres, C, 2019 – LSU commit
Vance Anderson, Util, 2019
Michael Danskey, INF, 2019
