The Great Lakes League Welcomes the Southern Ohio Copperheads
By: Homer Dawson

The Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League is a summer baseball league dedicated to the improvement and development of collegiate baseball players. All three divisions of college baseball are represented on the rosters of the 11 teams that make up the league.

The Great Lakes league is a wooden bat league, forcing the players to leave the aluminum bats at home for the summer and play baseball the old fashioned way. The league has franchises in Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania, each playing in local stadiums.

The league is sponsored and supported by both the NCAA and Major League Baseball. The league boasts over 50 alumni who have made the leap to the majors. Of last summer's rosters, five players were named all Americans in Division 111, including Drew Caravella of Ohio Wesleyan University, who was named the 2002 Division III player of the year.

The league A U expanded for the 2002 season, adding two teams, one in Murrysville, PA and your Southern Ohio Copperheads! Look for Great Lakes Summer Baseball and the Copperheads to be a part of Southern Ohio summers for years to come.