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MLB Drafts . Post-season awards went to Donnie Scott , Manager of the Year , Cooper as Most Valuable Player and Mankato teammate Blake Schwartz ( Minnesota State-Mankato ), Pitcher of the Year , with a 6-1 record , a 1.71 Earned Run Average , while striking out 75 batters in 61 innings pitched . Mankato Coach , Jason Ramos , was named Coach of the Year . The League ’ s webcasts experienced 869,425 streams being viewed by watchers in over 100 different countries .
2012 2012 continued the offensive onslaught previewed by Shaun Cooper ’ s ( Utah ) record setting performance in 2011 . Freshman Ben Moore ( Alabama ) won the Northwoods League ’ s Most Valuable Player Award , playing for the Alexandria Beetles , by slugging 16 Home Runs and setting a single season RBI record with an astounding 84 RBI in 65 games played . The Northwoods League also broke the single-season attendance record for Summer-Collegiate baseball by drawing 946,611 fans led by the Madison Mallards who broke their previously held Summer-Collegiate single-season attendance record , drawing 217,143 to their home games and another 6,073 fans to the Northwoods League All-Star game , setting another League record . The League welcomed a new member , the Lakeshore Chinooks , with Hall-of-Famers Robin Yount and Bob Uecker as part of an impressive ownership group and said good bye to the Brainerd Lunkers to complete the 16-team circuit . The Chinooks , playing in a newly constructed venue overlooking the beautiful shores of Lake Michigan on the campus of Concordia University , entered the South Division while the Waterloo Bucks moved to the North Division to replace Brainerd . The League introduced the Northwoods League Studio to accentuate their League-wide webcasts , offering pre-game and post-game analysis and highlights on a daily basis , attracting over 33,000 video streams over the course of the summer . On the field , the La Crosse Loggers claimed the Northwoods League Championship , winning the Summer Collegiate World Series in consecutive games over the Mankato MoonDogs who were runner-ups for the second consecutive summer . The Loggers swept the South Division Championship over the Wisconsin Woodchucks who valiantly fell , holding the ninth inning lead in both contests . Mankato beat Willmar in a three-game series in the North Division . Coach Andy McKay led the Loggers to the title after five years at the helm , compiling a 53-21 record for one of the finest teams to ever play in the Northwoods League . McKay accepted a position with the Colorado Rockies following the season . The Northwoods League All-Star game saw over 75 Major League Scouts viewing an exciting 4-3 win by the South Division on an eighth inning home run by Tyler Marincov ( North Florida ) of the home town Mallards . Marincov was the MVP of the game , while Trevor Podratz ( Hawaii ) of the Rochester Honkers won an exciting Home Run Derby . The game also featured the sons of Minnesota Twins hitting coach , Joe Vavra , playing for the North Division . Tanner Vavra ( Valparaiso ) of the Alexandria Beetles and Trey ( Madison College ) of the Duluth Huskies both ended the season in the top 15 in batting average with Tanner tying for the League lead at . 381 . Rounding out the post-season awards were Andy McKay , Manager of the Year , Joe Potulny ( La Crosse Loggers ) Coach of the Year and Jack Fischer ( Wake Forest ), a converted infielder for the Wisconsin Woodchucks who won Pitcher of the Year honors . 129 Northwoods League players and alums were chosen by Major League Teams in a Major League Baseball First Year Player Draft that had been reduced by 20 % from the previous year to 40 rounds of selections .
2013 2013 saw the Northwoods League celebrate its 20th Anniversary and continue its unprecedented embrace of technology in the Summer Collegiate Baseball world as the League became the first to have its own YouTube channel . This video tool allowed the League to show all game broadcasts ( free of charge ) to fans across the world along with nightly highlights of each game . The Northwoods League studio also took center stage hosting a pre-game show and a daily live post game show , giving fans full coverage of NWL action . Fans , parents , coaches and scouts could also view video footage of players taking batting practice or throwing a bullpen as a pitcher . John LaPrise ( University of Virginia ) hit a whopping . 407 , the second highest average in League history to take the batting title for the winners of the Summer Collegiate World Series , the Madison Mallards . Co-MVP ’ s Keith Curcio ( Florida Southern University ) of Duluth and Marc Flores ( University of Hawaii ) of Willmar entered the League Record books with outstanding seasons . Curcio , had the second highest hit total in League history ( 102 ), while Flores set Northwoods League records for Extra Base Hits ( 39 ) and Doubles ( 26 ) while adding 13 Home Runs . Pitcher of the