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Summer Ball: Playing for love of the game

By DJ Ramirez | Sports Editor

Before there were basketball bubbles or hockey bubbles or even soccer bubbles, there was collegiate summer baseball.

Just three months after sports across the country came to a screeching halt in attempts to flatten and crush the curve of the coronavirus spread, baseball was back, and several Baylor players jumped at the opportunity to hit the field just 90 minutes south of Baylor Ballpark.

Senior pitcher Jacob Ashkinos, senior infielder Esteban Cardoza-Oquendo, sophomore outfielder Jared Mackenzie and sophomore pitcher Hambleton Oliver traded the green and gold for navy and orange this summer, joining the Round Rock Hairy Men as part of the newly expanded Texas Collegiate League.