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Schwab: Geneva baseball freshman swings for fences, picks Florida St.

The Derr family headed from Tallahassee, Fla., for the airport in Orlando on Friday evening with 15-year-old Nick Derr asleep in the back seat.

The Geneva freshman had good reason to be conked.

A couple months before he’s due to play in his first high school baseball game, Derr on Friday gave a verbal commitment to play college baseball for national powerhouse Florida State. The verbal came on the heels of a two-day, comprehensive tour of the program and the university.

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