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"Dugout Chatter" is a behind the scenes look at your favorite prep baseball player.

 

Name: Logan Peot

School: Bay Port

Year: Senior

GPA: 3.2

Favorite class: Gym

Position: Pitcher, first base

Other sports: football, basketball

I got my start in sports: playing basketball and coach-pitch baseball in first grade and football in eighth grade.

I wish I could play: hockey.

Baseball highlights: Pirates won 2009 WIAA Division 1 state championship with 26-5 record, including an 18-4 record and second-place finish in the Fox River Classic Conference … co-captain as a senior and also earned Wisconsin Baseball Coaches Association honorable mention all-state, first-team all-district, all-area and all-conference honors as an infielder … second-team all-district, all-area and all-conference as a junior.

2009 stats: Batted .474 (45-for-95) with 28 runs scored, 10 doubles, one triple, three home runs and 33 RBI … drew 18 walks with six hit by pitches and was 5-for-7 in stolen bases … had .566 on-base percentage and .663 slugging percentage … pitching stats: 1-2 record with 3.66 ERA in 12 appearances, including five starts, covering 32 innings with 33 strikeouts … tossed one complete game and had one save.

Other sports highlights: played basketball until senior year at point guard and shooting guard, lettering as a junior … two-year letterwinner in football, played wide receiver as a junior and started at defensive back as a senior.

Other activities: member of Honor Roll six of eight semesters … volunteer at St. Benedict‘s Church … played baseball for Midwest Blazers during summer of 2008 … hobbies include 4-wheeling, fishing, youth baseball coach.

Team bonding moment: We had a big sundae bar the night before the state championship game. We bought some ice cream and a lot of different toppings and ate it all together.

Baseball ritual: I wore the same socks for every game and never washed them. They had holes in them and were falling apart at the end.

Stadium I want to visit: Fenway Park in Boston

I like playing baseball because: it takes more than one person for a team to succeed. Everyone has to play together.

Favorite baseball player: Ryan Braun

Favorite team: Milwaukee Brewers

Favorite movie/baseball movie: Hardball

Favorite TV show: King of Queens

Favorite food: cheese potatoes

Favorite restaurant: Red Robin

Favorite opponent: De Pere

Favorite web site: Facebook

Favorite place to visit: Florida.

One word to describe me: relentless

I want to meet: Michael Jordan

Dream date: Carrie Underwood

Role models: my parents, Mark and Sue.

My family also includes: my brother, Landon.

I drive: a 2000 Ford Taurus.

Dream car: a Ferrari

Dream road trip: Six Flags.

I wish: for a huge house.

Bay Port High School is the best: because of the atmosphere and we have great teachers.

On my IPod: country.

Talent I wish I had: I could dance

Post-high school plans: attend UW-Whitewater to major in physical education and minor in special education and play baseball.

Career goal: K-12 physical education teacher and coach

Outlook on life: "Work harder or don t work at all."

 

Did you know? Logan helped the Pirates baseball team become the first program in school history to win a state championship.

 

If you have a prep baseball player you would like to read about, send your nomination to Dennis Semrau at: [email=dsemrau@madison.com]dsemrau@madison.com[/email] or (608) 513-5550.