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Kubasaki graduate Brodie Romnek next heads to Michigan, where he'll play baseball for Division II Hillsdale College on full scholarship.

Kubasaki graduate Brodie Romnek next heads to Michigan, where he'll play baseball for Division II Hillsdale College on full scholarship. (Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes)

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa – Back in April, an athletic scholarship, partial or full, wasn’t even on Brodie Romnek’s radar.

He had been looked at by college scouts during his first two years of playing high school baseball in Temecula, Calif. He had attended summer camps as well; even trained for a time under former Major League slugger Reggie Smith. Read more at stripes.com.

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