Blue Jays prospect Aaron Sanchez will be making his debut at the Toronto Blue Jays' Major League spring training camp when pitchers and catchers report Feb. 16.
The Barstow native is one of 20 players invited to the camp who are not on the Blue Jays 40-man roster. He's projected by experts to start the season with Toronto's Double-A affiliate, the New Hampshire Fisher Cats.
Sanchez was taken with the 34th overall pick of the 2010 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft. In four seasons, Sanchez holds a 3.34 ERA with Class-A Advanced Dunedin Blue Jays in the Florida State League beging the highest level team he's played for.
� Since being recalled from the NBA Development League on Jan. 12, the Memphis Grizzlies' Jamaal Franklin (Serrano) has played 22 minutes and scored two points. He's appeared in five of 15 games since the call-up.
� Duce Zaid (Barstow Community College), a Cal State L.A. junior, transferred from Weber State in the offseason where he redshirted. This season, he's third in scoring at 10.3 points per game and he's also averaging 3.2 rebounds and 2.1 assists in 23.4 minutes.
� Aaron Alston (Hesperia), a Cal State L.A. junior, is averaging 5.3 points and 5.5 rebounds in 23.9 minutes a game and has started 17 of 19 games.
� Candice Agee (Silverado), a Penn State sophomore center, has played in every game for the Nittany Lions so far, averaging 3.7 points and 3.0 rebounds in 12.5 minutes.
� Jashae Lee (Sultana), a Murray State sophomore, is averaging 7.0 points and 5.6 rebounds in 21.1 minutes a game.
� Sydney Postal (Serrano), a Cal State L.A. sophomore, swept her first two matches as the No. 4 singles player and part of the top doubles team. Postal's team played another former Daily Press Girls Tennis Athlete of the Year winner Brooke Ferslov-Jensen (Sultana) and Vanguard University, but they didn't play each other. Ferslov-Jensen, a freshman, is also 2-0 in singles, but 0-2 in doubles.
� Cassandra Williams (Academy for Academic Excellence) earned the Cal State San Bernardino Coyote of the Week Award on Feb. 5.
The honor came after she picked up a complete-game victory in her first college game as CS San Bernardino beat 13th-ranked St. Martin 3-1 on Feb. 2. She scattered 10 hits, struck out three and gave up one extra-base hit without a walk. Williams also picked up the save in the second game of the double-header that day, and she scored two runs the Coyotes' 3-2 win.
Also joining Williams at CSSB this season are fellow freshmen Kailey Barton (Apple Valley) and Kristin Lopez (Silverado).
� In her first four collegiate games, Stephanie Bergmann (Oak Hills), a Charleston Southern freshman, is hitting .333 (4-for-12) with a .583 sluggling percentage, three doubles, a run scored and an RBI.
� Robert Marchese (Oak Hills) is redshirting this season at Bucknell after competing there as a freshman last year.
� Ryan Fillingame (Sultana) continues to stand out for Adams State as a senior. Fillingame picked up his 100th career college win in a dual against New Mexico Highland in late January.
� Chris Sloat (Hesperia), a senior at Division II Belmont Abbey College, won his dual match at the Crusaders' senior night on Feb. 6.
� Alec Smith (Sultana), a Cal Baptist University sophomore, won his first five matches and held an 8-2 record through Friday, competing at 165 pounds.
� Anthony Ballinger (Apple Valley), a sophomore at Cal Baptist University, has a 6-14 record this season wrestling at 165 and 174 pounds.