Three transfers and a commit

Dickson, Newalu and Vawter-Scoggins move up from juco; Richter goes DI

Zach Vawter-Scoggins is headed to Valdosta
State for the 2011 NCAA season

 Fall semester is in full swing and the boys of college ball are already into full-on team practice and gearing up for fall scrimmages. As we try to catch up with who went where in the summertime college-ball shuffle, we've uncovered three more ABL players who will be transferring from junior college up to four-year ball, and one former prep star who will be moving into the college game.

2010 third-bagger and Glacier Pilots masher O'Koyea Dickson will be moving up from the College of San Mateo, will be a Seawolf in 2011. No, Alaska Anchorage isn't adding a baseball program; Dickson has transferred to Sonoma State of the Division II CCAA conference. Sonoma State is one of the more noteworthy DII baseball programs in the country, turning out three mid-draft picks and an indy-ball signee in 2010. Dickson was a mid-summer pickup for the Pilots in 2010 and brought a sweet power swing (scouting video) to the Anchorage club.

Another 3B, Blake Newalu of the 2008 Mat-Su Miners, is on the move. Newalu will be leaving Chipola CC behind for the University of Mississippi. "Ole Miss", of course, plays in the Division-I Southeastern Conference (SEC) and gave rise to first-round, #5 overall pick in the 2010 MLB amateur draft, Drew Pomeranz. The Rebels have also been awarded eight consecutive NCAA regional seeds, so Newalu will be in good company talent-wise and have a good opportunity to continue making a name for himself.

2010 Draft Signing Deadline Wrap

A look at who signed...or more importantly, who didn't.

So it looks like nobody signed! That's anti-climactic. Or it would be, except for the fact that a lot of schools were probably sweating bullets all night wondering if some of their top players were going to get snatched up. If there are no contracts that have yet to come out in the media, here's where everyone will end up:

- James Paxton will likely finish out the season with the independent Grand Prairie Air Hogs and sign with Seattle sometime over the off-season.
- Kevin Jacob will return to Georgia Tech for his senior year, and possibly go as high as the first round in 2011.
- Francis Larson could hang up the baseball spikes and pursue his master's degree in philosophy.
- Bryan Harper will transfer to the University of South Carolina.
- Ryan Woolley has a year of eligibility left due to a redshirt season and will return to Alabama Birmingham.
- Dustin Emmons will return to UC Riverside.
- Kyle Richter will be a freshman at USC. He will be draft eligible again in 2013.
- Jesse Meaux will return to UC Santa Barbara.
- Troy Scott will return to the University of Washington.
- Zach Arneson will return to Cal State Bakersfield

This list is based on the best info I could scrape up. If anyone else has any better information, please let me know and I will post it here.