Christie signs professional baseball contract
Hanover College senior pitcher Adam Christie (Depauw, IN) has signed a professional contract with the Florence Freedom (Ky.) of the Frontier League. He becomes the seventh Hanover player in the past 20 years to be drafted or sign with a professional team.
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Adam Christie
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During the 2003 campaign, Christie posted a 7-3 record in 14 appearances for the Panthers with a 2.83 earned run average. A first-team Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference pick, Christie tallied 75 strikeouts in 76.1 innings to become Hanover's career strikeout leader. He raised his career total to 246 strikeouts, surpassing the mark of 213 strikeouts set by his brother, Nathan, who pitched for the Panthers from 1998 through the 2001 season.
"It is always exciting when one of your players signs a professional contract," states Hanover head coach Richard Naylor. "Adam has his degree in hand and now he has the opportunity to display his baseball abilities at the professional level."
The Florence Freedom compete in the 12-team Frontier League, an independent league which includes teams in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The Freedom will play a 90-game schedule this summer. Home games will be played at Foundation Field in Hamilton, Ohio, this season. The team will move to a new $5 million stadium in Florence, Ky., for the 2004 campaign.
Hanover lands 2003 NCAA III national championship
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The men's and women's national championship races will feature more than 20 men's and women's teams and more than 400 individual runners.
In addition to the finales, Hanover will host the NCAA Division III Great Lakes Regional, Saturday, Nov. 15, on its campus course.
The 2003 events mark the college's second opportunity to participate in the NCAA cross country championships. Hanover hosted the Great Lakes Regional in 2000.
