The Illinois Baseball Coaches Association selected Morris' Jack Wheeler as the 2025 Class 3A Player of the Year

The Troy Junior High baseball team went 26-0 to win the state title in 1975

Morris graduate Cody Del Favero threw a 3-hit shutout with 13 strikeouts for the Normal Cornbelters to earn Prospect League Pitcher of the Week honors

The Morris Tomahawks 12U baseball team went to Cooperstown and got to see and touch the bat that Morris native Scott Spiezio used to hit a three-run homer in Game 6 of the 2002 World Series

Lincoln-Way West's Conor Essenburg gets drafted in the fifth round, Jack Wheeler goes high and more big things from 2025 MLB Draft.

Lincoln-Way Central's Luke Mensik was selected by the San Francisco Giants in the 17th round of the 2025 MLB Draft, and Joliet West alum Jimmy Anderson was taken in the 19th round by the Baltimore Orioles.

Infielder Jack Wheeler of Morris was taken in the sixth round by the Texas Rangers in the MLB Draft Monday.

Conor Essenburg, the back-to-back Herald-News Baseball Player of the Year, has been selected in the fifth round of the MLB draft by the Atlanta Braves.

Will Jack Bauer go in the first round? Will CJ Deckinga hear his name called? Five big questions ahead of next week's MLB draft.