Libertyville's Vogt is a hit in Luther College's lineup
Center fielder Jake Vogt wrapped up his junior season for the Luther College (Decorah, Iowa) baseball team by being named first-team all-Iowa Conference.
The Libertyville graduate, who was named second team last year, finished the conference campaign ranked fourth with a batting average of .385.
He was second in the league for hits (35) and runs scored (26), was third for slugging percentage (. 593), and finished tied for the league lead in doubles (13) with teammate Jake Halverson.
Vogt started all 42 games for the Norse and batted .305 that included a team best 17 doubles. He was also hit 3 home runs and had 24 RBI. Defensively, he was credited with 92 putouts, 12 assists and 3 errors for a fielding percentage of .972.
Luther finished the season with a record of 26-16 and a third consecutive winning season under fourth year head coach Bryan Nikkel. In four years, Nikkel has compiled a record of 107-70.
Men's track
Augustana senior Kyle Hucker (Wauconda) was named to the 2018 Google Cloud/College Sports Information Directors of America Academic All-District 7 team.
A sprinter and team captain, Hucker was one of 12 athletes honored in District 7, which encompasses Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
Hucker finished his career as a four-time all-American and three-time CCIW champion. He anchored the Viking 4x400 relay this year, which finished fifth in the nation in a school-record 3:15.94 indoors and seventh at the outdoor national meet. Hucker ran a collegiate best of: 22.02 in the 200 and his best of: 48.25 in the 400 ranks seventh all-time at Augustana. He is an accounting, business management and finance major with a 3.82 GPA.
Baseball
Eli Wilson, son of Barrington High School baseball legend Dan Wilson, played an instrumental role as the starting catcher for Minnesota's Big Ten and NCAA regional champions (44-13), who have now advanced to the best-of-three Super Regional June 8-11 in Corvallis, Ore.
The 6-foot-2, 190-pound Wilson, a sophomore from Seattle, hit a home run in Minnesota's 6-4 victory over Purdue that added the Big Ten tourney title to the Gophers' regular-season championship.
He then drove in the tying run in the eighth inning in a 3-2, 10-inning victory Saturday over UCLA in the regional and drove in 2 more runs in a second win (13-8) that eliminated UCLA on Sunday.
The .300 hitter also is a rarity among college catchers because he calls all the pitches for the Gophers. His father Dan also went to Minnesota, was a first-round draft pick in 1990 and is in the Seattle Mariners' Hall of Fame as a catcher.
Softball
Hersey junior Makayla Tsagalis made the Greek National Softball Team and will be competing in Slovakia this summer against the best teams in the world. Tsagalis helped the Huskies to a tri-championship in the Mid-Suburban East this spring.
Also listed on the roster is Barrington graduate Kat Panos, who played for DePauw in Newcastle, Ind., this spring.
The Hellas Softball Federation announces the athletes named to the Women's National Team program for 2018.
The U-22 team will compete at the European Championship in Trnava, Slovakia from July 23 to 28.
"We are extremely excited about the upcoming summer and the athletes selected for our events," said coach Tony Foti. "We have a lot of new athletes joining our program and this is a great opportunity to be able to give our younger athletes international experience.
"We are using these pre-2019 events to evaluate all of our athletes in international competition and to give them well needed experience that is different from their regular college softball experience. These events are extremely important for us, as these are the last events before 2019, where we will be selecting a final senior roster to compete in the ESF Women's Championship and the Olympic Qualifier."
The Hellas National Team Program is the official national team of the Hellas Softball Federation.
See you in September
Sports Notes will take the summer off and return next September to bring you more update on the area's athletes competing on the collegiate level. Have a nice summer and look for us again next school year!