CDO grad Ryan Retz now in Can-Am Independent baseball league

Canyon del Oro High School grad Ryan Retz, who hit .345 with 12 home runs for the Tucson Saguaros last season, opened this year with the New Jersey Jackets of the Can-Am Independent baseball league. Retz, who was an all-Big South player at High Point University, was the Star’s 2009 All-Southern Arizona Player of the Year. Baseball is in his blood; his father, Tucson businessman Bobby Retz, was on Pima College’s first NJCAA World Series baseball team under Rich Alday and later played at UTEP and was drafted by the Houston Astros in 1983. Bobby Retz was the first player honored on CDO’s “Wall of Fame” at the school’s baseball facility.