Edgewood's Sperduto to attend Mount Union for school, baseball
When Edgewood senior catcher Alex Sperduto started playing travel baseball at age 13, he made it his goal to play in college and to continue to play as long as he can. That dream was almost put on hold after suffering an injury in the second half of his junior year. Sperduto dislocated his kneecap and fractured his femur bone while warming up for the second game of a doubleheader at Conneaut.
“I missed half my season, like the whole end of it, and then through almost all summer, and I didn't get any scouting like all year through the summer and everything and junior year or all that stuff,” Sperduto said. The summer between a player’s junior and senior year can often be the most important time for scouts to see them in person. But Sperduto kept at it and was cleared from his injuries last summer and went to a baseball showcase, where he caught the attention of the University of Mount Union.
“I think I took like one round of BP before that and then Mount saw me a week after I was cleared,” Sperduto said. He was invited to visit the campus and then everything fell into place. Sperduto has committed to continuing his education after high school and to play for the Purple Raiders, an NCAA Division III program which plays in the Ohio Athletic Conference.
He plans to major in management. “I just fell in love with the campus. I like all the coaches, all nice guys.
Met a lot of the guys on the baseball team and I just enjoyed my stay down there,” Sperduto said. “I did an overnight and I just liked everything about the campus and I liked all the guys. It's a good baseball school, high-level baseball.
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