Durket Signs With Lake Erie Crushers
6/23/2010 12:00:00 PM | Baseball
June 23, 2010
Another Wright State baseball player has entered the professional ranks as pitcher Jon Durket has joined the Lake Erie Crushers of the independent Frontier League.
Durket (El Dorado Hills, CA/Oak Ridge) posted a 2-3 record in 2010 with a 3.99 earned run average in 29.1 innings of work. The left hander earned a win with four shutout innings at home against Dayton on April 21 and allowed just one run in five innings in a victory at Youngstown State on May 1.
A First Team All-Horizon League performer in 2008 when he was 7-2 with a 3.24 ERA, Durket appeared in just four games in 2009 before under going Tommy John surgery.
Lake Erie, the 2009 Frontier League champions, plays its home games at All-Pro Freight Stadium in Avon, Ohio, which also served as the home field for Horizon League rival Cleveland State this season.
Durket is the fifth Raider to sign a professional contract this month, joining pitcher Greg Robinson (Arizona Diamondbacks), second baseman Aaron Fields (Cleveland Indians), catcher Gerald Ogrinc (Milwaukee Brewers) and pitcher Alex Kaminsky (Cleveland Indians). The five are the most in one season in WSU history, eclipsing the four that signed in 1990.
Overall, seven Wright State players have been drafted (Joe Smith, Jeremy Hamilton, Ross Vagedes, Robinson and Fields) while 10 have signed as free agents (Bryan Vickers, Robert Barrett, Aaron Garcia, Jason Bennion, Kyle Kearcher, Garret Holleran, Kory Twede, Ogrinc, Kaminsky and Durket) during head coach Rob Cooper's six-year tenure with the program.
