Wildcats, Sun Devils score big in baseball recruiting, magazine says

Collegiate Baseball magazine ranks Jay Johnson’s first full Arizona recruiting class No. 4 nationally. It lists ASU No. 1. The intrigue is that the Sun Devils’ class includes former UA infielder Jackson Willeford, who played under Andy Lopez in 2013 but only started six games before injuring his elbow and transferring to Cypress College in Southern California. Willeford, a fifth-year senior, has one year of eligibility remaining and indicated he would like to return to Tucson. But Johnson chose to give a more substantial scholarship package to Las Vegas infielder Nick Quintana, who is ranked as the nation’s No. 6 overall recruit in the Class of 2016 by Perfect Game Baseball, and No. 2 overall in the Pac-12. 

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