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Trinity Bat Co. has partnered with Mater Dei High School to present the Trinity Bat Company Home Run Challenge benefiting the Cory Hahn Fund.
The event will take place at Mater Dei on Saturday, January 12, 2013 from 10:00am - 4:00pm and will feature professional, collegiate, and high school divisions. Among the professionals committed to participating are Mark Trumbo - Los Angeles Angels, Ian Stewart - Chicago Cubs, Trayvon Robinson - Baltimore Orioles, Daric Barton - Oakland A's, Brandon Barnes - Houston Astros.
Cory Hahn is a former Gatorade Player of the Year in California while playing at Mater Dei. Drafted in the 26th round of the Major League Baseball draft, Hahn instead accepted a scholarship to play baseball at Arizona State University.
In the first weekend of his freshman season, he went to steal second base, sliding head first and colliding
with the second baseman.Hahn suffered a C-5 fracture of his spinal
cord, ultimately leaving him paralyzed from the chest down.