BlueChips Recruiting and Training

Address:  470 Pierce Drive A1

Website:  www.bluechipsrecruiting.com

Phone: 465-0304

Products and services:  Indoor, artificial-turfed practice facility, indoor batting cages, recruiting help, baseball/softball-specific training.

Owners: Brooke and Blair Eklund

Hours:  M-F 5p.m- 10p.m.   Sat & Sun 12-8p.m.  or by appointment.

Eklands said they got started as coaches on a senior legion team in the area and saw the need for this type of business.  “We both played baseball from the time we were 3  and we wanted to give kids interested in baseball/softball an opportunity to get better and maybe further their careers in the sport,” Brooke Eklund said in an email.  “We want to see more Alex Gordons and Joba Chamberlins.”