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[QUOTE="Cheriehoop, post: 791441, member: 127"]
I bet there's more elite local talent in baseball than hockey. There are a number of local kids who have made pro baseball after playing at programs like Virgina, St John's, Lemoyne, Niagara, etc. Currently there are local kids at Siena, Wake Forest, St John's, Cortland, Lemoyne,  Va Tech etc. Our local teams have been dominant in the 15-18 year old Babe Ruth National championships for a number of years including winning national championships. Local baseball talent has been good but has had to leave the area to play D1 ball. Cortland, St John Fisher, Ithaca, Lemoyne etc all have had excellent teams so D2 and D3 teams have excelled nationally too. There are a number of very good community college teams in NYS (Monroe CC etc) that have fed D1, D2 schools.

The best hockey players who get D1 rides are usually older and head off to prep schools etc mainly in the Midwest. or Canada . Even D3 teams like Clarkson University, Hobart,  have  very few NYS players on their rosters. The best talent wouldn't be local it would be imported.
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