The list comes to you courtesy of Prep Baseball Report's Drake Skleba:

1B Pat Korienek, Downers Grove South
2B Dan Walsh, Downers Grove South
SS Vince Kmiec, Sandburg
3B Stefano Belmonte, St. Rita
C Eric Josupait, Waubonsie Valley
DH Harry Vickers, Waubonsie Valley
OF Kris Singh, Waubonsie Valley
OF Brett Huff, Sandburg
OF Anthony Andres, St.Rita
P Matt Wivinis, Downers Grove South
P Shane Conlon, St. Rita

2009 Jack Kaiser Most Valuable Player Award
Mark Payton, St. Rita

Mississippi State baseball coach John Cohen told the crowd at a recent alumni/booster club event that there's a very good chance Connor Powers will return to school for his senior season, according to The Clarion-Ledger. The Los Angeles Dodgers selected Powers, a Benet graduate, in the 11th round of last month's first-year player draft.

In the meantime, Powers was picked to hit in the Cape Cod League's home run derby before its All-Star game on Thursday night at Fenway Park in Boston.

Benet and Naperville Central both advanced in the Illinois High School Baseball Coaches Association summer state tournament on Tuesday in Glen Ellyn. The two teams will meet Wednesday at 2 p.m. in a Glenbard South regional semifinal.

Connor Reilly went 5-for-5 with three singles, a double, a triple and five RBI as No. 8 Benet hung on to beat top-seeded Neuqua Valley 9-7. Mike Chiaro hit the game-tying home run in the sixth and pitched four effective innings to earn the win for the Redwings.

The event, which is now officially called the Phil Lawler Summer Classic, is named after the long-time Central assistant, and the No. 5 Redhawks remained in the tournament with an 11-7 comeback victory. They trailed 7-5 heading into the seventh, but then exploded for six runs to eliminate No. 4 Hinsdale Central.

They sent 10 to the plate in the decisive seventh inning that began with a Marc Mantucca solo homer. Matt Cmiel - who in the second had given Central an early lead with a two-out, three-run triple to the gap in right-center - drove in the go-ahead run with a line drive to short that settled as an infield single.

Mantucca threw two innings of scoreless relief to earn the win.

That's the new name for the summer state tournament organized by the Illinois High School Baseball Coaches Association. Phil Lawler is the long-time Naperville Central assistant who helped found the tournament. Before the championship game on July 30 at Benedictine, Lawler will be honored and one team will receive the Phil Lawler Summer State Championship Trophy.

Waubonsie Valley and Neuqua Valley have earned top seeds in the upcoming Illinois High School Baseball Coaches Association summer state tournament. For the full brackets, click here and follow the "IHSBCA SUMMER 09" link.

Last week we caught up with Stanford's Chris Derrick, the distance runner out of Neuqua Valley with Olympic ambitions. We mentioned the Cardinal's rich and varied athletic history, which includes John McEnroe, Tiger Woods and at least one national championship in 33 consecutive years.

But even Stanford isn't immune to the global financial crisis, as Mark Schlabach explains in a fascinating piece for ESPN.com. Stanford athletic director Bob Bowlsby told Schlabach that he will have to slash $7 million from his department over the next two and a half years. Bowlsby couldn't guarantee that sports won't be cut. Schlabach reports:

Across the country, Stanford isn't alone in its financial difficulties. Many athletic departments are struggling to balance their financial books after receiving less funding from state legislatures and fewer donations from alumni and boosters.

Stanford's economic woes are directly tied to the loss in value of its endowments, which are used to cover scholarship funding and other operating costs. In 2008, the Cardinal's athletic endowment was worth about $520 million. But the endowment lost about 20 to 30 percent of its value when the financial markets went south, dropping its current value to about $410 million. The value of the school's general endowment fell from $17.2 billion in 2008 to about $12 billion this fiscal year.

Candace Parker's "This is 'SportsCenter'" commercial for ESPN is scheduled to debut on Monday. Several of the show's anchors are featured in the 30-second spot below. Walking through the ESPN campus, they wear strength shoes - like the kind that intrigued George Costanza on "Seinfeld" - with their business attire. All in the hopes of being able to dunk like Parker.

Here's a testimonial: "Jimmy couldn't jump at all before he got these. Jimmy was like you."

MLB.com's Mychael Urban recently chatted with new Oakland outfielder Scott Hairston. Read the full Q&A session here.

City/Suburban Hoops Report guru Joe Henricksen ranks 6-foot-5-inch Neuqua Valley forward Dwayne Evans at No. 15 on his list of the state's top 50 players from the Class of 2010. The scouting report on Evans:

Still trying to shed the dreaded 'tweener label. Perimeter shot extends to the three-point line and has gained consistency, though he's more of a pull-up/spot-up shooter. He's not one to rise up and get his own and must improve his comfort with his handle. Just an old school player who plays with a warrior's demeanor, winner's mentality and high motor. Manages to get a lot done against bigger, more athletic players around the basket.

Not surprisingly, Waukegan's Jereme Richmond, an Illinois recruit, topped the list. A few other names you might recognize: No. 11 Jordan Threloff, DeKalb; No. 23 Tim Rusthoven, Wheaton Academy; No. 31 Antoine Cox, Bolingbrook; No. 38 Jay Harris, Oswego East; and No. 50 DeAndre McCamey, St. Joseph.

Within this piece, we mentioned a recent Time magazine feature in which Candace Parker fielded 10 questions from readers. You can find the entire Q&A session here. The recruiting process has already begun...

How are you doing with your new daughter? Has your coach at Tennessee, Pat Summitt, started recruiting her yet? Brenda Goodman JOHNSON CITY, TENN.

When I first told Coach Summitt that I was pregnant, she was like, Where can we send the papers? I had to remind her that my husband [Minnesota Timberwolves forward Shelden Williams] went to Duke, so he's pushing for her to go there. But I'm doing great. My baby is the joy in my life. Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.

In a move that he described as coming out of the blue, Scott Hairston was traded from San Diego to Oakland on Sunday for two minor league pitchers and a player to be named later.

The outfielder had finally developed into an everyday player with the Padres, and that's when they decided to deal him and replenish their farm system with right-handers Ryan Webb and Craig Italiano. Hairston entered Monday hitting .299 with 10 home runs in 56 games, and the move leaves slugger Adrian Gonzalez without his wingman, as Bill Center explains in the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Three former Kane County Cougars were selected to next week's All-Star Game in St. Louis: Boston pitcher Josh Beckett; Oakland reliever Andrew Bailey; and San Diego first baseman Adrian Gonzalez.

Michael Bowden is working on a slider that he hopes will make him a permanent big-league pitcher. The No. 2 prospect in the Red Sox organization has an ERA of 6.42 since May 23, according to this Providence Journal feature by Daniel Barbarisi, but that's part of a learning curve.

The 6-foot-3-inch right-hander out of Waubonsie Valley is trying to develop an extra pitch that will make hitters swing and miss. Bowden's numbers are still good - opponents are hitting only .226 against him at Triple-A, and he has a 3.39 ERA overall - but he could use a slider to throw in a two-strike count.

"I think it's going to define him. I really do," Pawtucket pitching coach Rich Sauveur told the newspaper. "I honestly think that pitch is going to define him, to help him get back to where he wants to be."