Baseball may play a decision in which college Erath High senior Ross Granger attends

Erath High senior Ross Granger can attend any college in the state he wants thanks to a 4.0 grade point average and a 33 (36 is perfect score) on his ACT. But there is a catch to selecting the right college.
Granger would also love to play college baseball.
The left handed pitcher and outfielder for the Bobcats’ baseball team is in the early stages of trying to find a college that fits him. He has until May.
An easy solution would be to attend UL Lafayette or LSU and walk-on the baseball team. He does not want that. He would like a baseball scholarship offer from a university that will also help him get into medical school.
He just learned he was accepted into Tulane University in New Orleans, but once again, there was no baseball scholarship offer. The Tulane coach encouraged him to walk on to the baseball team.
Down the street, Loyola University of New Orleans is interested in him, but the head baseball coach recently left for another baseball job. Granger learned a baseball scholarship that is still on the table at Loyola.
LSU-Eunice recently began showing interest in him.
“I still do not know where I am going,” said Granger, who was honored at Tuesday’s Kiwanis meeting. He was named the Kiwanis December Student of the Month.
“It is still up in the air where I am going to attend college.”
Where ever he goes, he does know he wants to major in biology. He would love one day to be an orthopedic surgeon. But before he picks up a knife to cut on a patient down the road, he first wants to pick up as many baseballs as he can.
“Baseball is what I love to do. It is my favorite thing in the world,” Granger added. “Baseball helps me get away from stress in everyday life. When I am playing baseball, I forget about everything for three or four hours.”
Granger just completed playing football for the Bobcats where he earned all-district first-team honors as a wide receiver. He returns as the ace pitcher the baseball team.
While baseball is what he loves, he knows it is not the only thing in life. He knows academic ranks first overall when it comes to selecting the correct university instead of picking any university based on its baseball team.
“Baseball is all good and dandy, but when it comes down to it, the degree is what is going to help me out,” he said.