Frontier League represented at College World Series

The Frontier League, including the Wild Things, will be represented at the College World Series that begins Saturday in Omaha, Neb.

Frontier League umpire Jim Schaly (pictured) has been selected as one of eight umpires for the series. A native of Marietta, Ohio, Schaly will be working his second College World Series. He also was there in 2011.

Schaly umpired at the regional in Starkville, Miss., (won by Arizona). Because he had been chosen for the CWS, Schaly had last weekend off and did not work the Super Regionals. He did get in some work at Frontier League games, most recently in Marion, Ill., where he called two Florence Freedom vs. Southern Illinois Miners games.

Another connection to the CWS is with Coastal Carolina, which for many years was a feeder program for the Wild Things. The Chanticleers are in Omaha for the first time after winning the SuperRegional series against LSU. Coastal Carolina's director of baseball operations is Chris Carter, who played two years (2005-06) as an outfielder with the Wild Things and won the Frontier League batting title in 2003, his second season with Kalamazoo.