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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 840918, member: 549"] Nice article about 2016 commit John Toppa (5-11 190lb) from RI's Bishop Hendricken: [url]http://www.newportri.com/newportdailynews/sports/off-the-grid/article_e33a9152-4249-529a-a4bb-5d28f8e264a0.html[/url] >>While football is in his blood, baseball is the sport that captured his heart. The Bishop Hendricken High School junior outfielder won’t follow in the footsteps of his grandfather and his father, both of whom played football at Boston College, but rather has given a verbal commitment to play baseball at the University of Connecticut.<< >>“When I spoke to Coach Penders a couple of weeks ago, he loves John,” Hendricken baseball coach Ed Holloway said. “He thought he was one of the better kids he’d seen in the high school ranks in his class. I know UConn really liked the way he swung the bat, and John’s an athletic kid for a big kid.” The feeling, it seems, was mutual. Toppa, who is 5-foot-11, 190 pounds, and his father visited a number of schools in North Carolina — Elon University, N.C. State, the University of North Carolina and Duke — on unofficial visits, but they weren’t as appealing as the campus in Storrs, Conn.<< He will be a junior this year so I'm figuring he's a 2016. [/QUOTE]