South's Torrence will be a Buckeye

[The Butler]

Canton South's multi-sports star Devon Torrence plans on telling Buckeye Head Coach Jim Tressel he will accept OSU’s full-ride football scholarship today after the OSU-NIU game. The only potential roadblock, is how high he is drafted in the MLB draft. Torrence plans to play baseball as well as football at OSU.

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[DAWGH8R]

Wow! What an athlete !! How did McKinley not find him?????:doh2:

[monte81]

His dad played OLB for Mckinley from 85-87! McKinley has been trying to get them for years(his brother Devoe plays both ways also and is a jr.) since around 7th grade! I remember them playing for the vikings midget league team in Canton-- they have always been beasts!

[The Butler]

Todd Porter continues the story in today's Sunday Special. Also included is a little on the Tigers coaching staff's scouting trip and Hamilton Chandler playing in Sund Devil Stadium.
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Ohio State told Torrence he could play football and baseball in Columbus. Tressel, we’re told, fully endorsed the idea.

Buckeye baseball Coach Bob Todd is the big winner here. He gets an immediate starting outfielder who won’t count against his scholarships.

There could be one hangup. What if Torrence gets drafted out of Canton South this May by a Major League Baseball team? Will he pass up a lot of money to play college football?

“It depends,” Torrence said. “First, I will get drafted. It just depends on where I will be drafted. When I went to a North Carolina baseball camp, scouts told my mom (Wanda Perrin) and older brother (Julius Lancaster) I would be drafted, no doubt.”

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