Justin Willis from Knoxville Gibbs High School Senior has signed a National Letter of Intent to play College Baseball at East Tennessee State University. Willis credited the Coaching Staff at ETSU with the major factor in signing with the Bucs. Willis received offers from Austin Peay, Belmont, Jackson State, and had interest from schools including Purdue, UNLV, Jacksonsville State and Murray State. Another major factor was the opportunity to come in and play early in his college career. Willis is a 6'3", 155 lbs. left handed pitcher who throws in the mid 80's with an array of off speed pitches. Willis was a Travel Ball All American in 2006. His high school record after 3 seasons is 23-7 with an Earned Run Average of 2.92, to go with 187 strikeouts.
As a sophomore with Gibbs HS he was 9-3 - Made the All State Super Sophomore Team and Made All District, and pitched Gibbs to the State Tournament by throwing a shutout at Unicoi County in the Substate game 5-0. In his junior year, he once again went 9-3, made the All District, All Region Team, and All KIL and News Sentinel Teams. He also qualified for the Tennessee Baseball Coaches Association All State Team.
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