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Casey Opitz is continuing his family’s baseball legacy. Tuesday night, he became the third Opitz brother to commit to a Division I baseball program.
Opitz will head to the SEC, where he will play for the University of Arkansas. The commitment was announced on the Heritage athletics Twitter account.
In the 2015-16, Opitz batted .424 in 21 games he played for the Eagles. Heritage came into the 2016 postseason with the fourth-best RPI in Class 5A, but lost their district championship game to eventual state champion Cherokee Trail.
Opitz’s two older brothers, Shane and Jake, both committed to play baseball at the University of Nebraska. They were also both selected in the MLB draft after their senior seasons at Heritage. Shane went on to sign with the Toronto Blue Jays straight out of high school while Jake played for the Cornhuskers before once again entering the draft and being taken by the Chicago Cubs.
Shane still plays in the Blue Jays organization.
Opitz’s commitment to Arkansas has been updated in the recruiting database for the class of 2017.