University of Evansville rising sophomore pitcher Matt Netherton (Wichita, Kan./Trinity) has been named to the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League All-Star Game after ranking as one of the league’s top relief pitchers this summer.

Netherton has gone 1-0 with two saves and a 1.42 earned run average in seven appearances, including one start, for the Xenia (Ohio) Athletes In Action of the Great Lakes Summer League.  Netherton currently ranks seventh in the Great Lakes Summer League in earned run average, while also ranking fifth in the league in innings pitched with 25.1.  He has also converted a pair of save opportunities to rank eighth in the league in saves.

Netherton will represent UE and the Xenia Athletes in Action in the 2008 Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League All-Star Game on Wednesday, July 16 at Western Hills High School in Cincinnati, Ohio.  The Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League is a wooden-bat summer league based in Indiana and Ohio which boasts such Major League alumni as current Chicago White Sox outfielder Nick Swisher and current Washington Nationals’ relief pitcher Chad Cordero.