Sam Miller

Prep sports roundup: Justin Kirchner’s pitching, James Tronstein’s hitting lead 8-0 win for Harvard-Westlake

For those people putting together lists of top high school baseball prospects for the 2026 draft, you better start paying attention to Harvard-Westlake shortstop James Tronstein, a Vanderbilt commit who should be rising fast because of what he’s been doing with his bat. In his latest performance Tuesday against Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, he had…

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Ancient Tidal Flats Were Busier Than We Thought

New trace fossil discoveries from the half-billion-year-old Cambrian tidal flats of Wisconsin at a site called Blackberry Hill continue to paint the picture of some of the earliest animals to set foot on land and what they might have been eating. The mollusk trail Climactichnites blackberriensis (Cb) presumably stopping to eat a scyphozoan (jellyfish) that…

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