Ex-Loyola Academy star Jack Yalowitz gets ready to hit during a Kenosha Kingfish game this summer. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER
Yalo was very good this summer for the Kenosha Kingfish.
Just not “YABO” good — like he was for the University of Illinois in the spring.
Jack Yalowitz, a former standout at Loyola Academy, ended play in the Northwoods League with a seven-game hitting streak. In 199 plate appearances in this high-level college league, the 5-foot-10, 180-pound outfielder wound up batting .282 with 10 doubles, 10 steals and 31 runs scored.
He committed no errors for the 36-36 Kingfish.
Without question, Yalowitz’s best baseball came with the Fighting Illini. In 49 games, the sweet-swinging left-handed hitter went YABO — yard — 12 times.
His numbers — .335 batting average, .999 OPS, .590 slugging, .409 on-base, 67 hits, 42 runs, 44 RBIs, 10 steals, nine doubles and three triples — were so good that he was named all-Big Ten First Team and ABCA/Rawlings All-Region Second Team.
Yalowitz finished top 10 in the Big Ten in seven major categories: batting average, slugging percentage, runs, hits, runs batted in, triples and home runs.
In the field, he was equally effective: 2 errors.
Jack Yalowitz hits a single for the Kingfish. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER