Another year, another Camalick for Red Devils

Updated: July 12, 2011 1:38PM

Another member of the Camalick family of Burr Ridge is patrolling the outfield for Hinsdale Central’s baseball team.

But junior Justice Camalick will likely become the final member of his family to play varsity athletics for the Devils. Justice is the seventh of eight children born to Jim and Vicki Camalick.

But since Justice’s younger brother, Jerred, is involved in karate instead of baseball, Justice will end a run in two years that has included three older sisters playing volleyball and two older brothers playing baseball for Hinsdale Central.

Justice is in his first season with Hinsdale Central’s summer league team and started in center field Monday during the Devils’ 3-1 loss to Streamwood, a Class 4A supersectional team in the spring.

Justice replaces his older brother Jacques, a recent Hinsdale Central graduate headed to Augustana this fall. Jacques played the outfield and ended a two-year varsity career with the Devils in June.

“My parents are more enthusiastic (about attending games],” Justice Camalick said. “They have been coming here a while. They watch me play at home. Being the last one, my mom said, ‘It’s sad now that we’re all grown up. It’s sad there aren’t more.’”

Justice played catcher and outfielder for last season’s sophomore team at Hinsdale Central. On Monday, he started for the Devils (6-13 summer record) along with another member of his family. Justice’s cousin, junior Tyler Ward, started behind the plate and hit a double and triple off left-hander Dalton Lundeen, who went 7-3 in the spring.

Hinsdale Central scored its only run in the first inning and had six hits off Lundeen, who pitched a complete game and struck out 10 batters.

When he isn’t playing for the Devils, Justice is playing travel baseball with the Downers Grove Longshots. He is the only Hinsdale Central player on the Longshots’ Class of 2013 team. The Longshots played in a CABA regional tournament earlier this month in Lynwood and will compete in the CABA World Series starting July 24 in Marietta, Ga.

“I love coming out here and playing ball,” Justice said. “You work hard in the offseason and see it payoff.”

Justice played football as a freshman, but gave up the sport to concentrate on baseball. The only member of the family to play two varsity sports was older sister Mandy, who played volleyball and softball.

The family’s oldest child, Jimmy, 29, was a regular at many of Jacques’ home games and is attending Justice’s summer league games. Jimmy is wheelchair bound while battling muscular dystrophy.

“He’s my biggest inspiration,” Justice said of Jimmy. “It’s hard on my mom. I think a lot of how she gets him out of bed. He comes out here (to games) and it’s not easy.”

The family owns a batting cage in their garage and now Jimmy critiques Justice’s hitting just as he did for Jacques. Jacques and Justice have an older brother, Josh, who is a senior catcher-infielder on Bradley University’s baseball team.

All three of the family’s daughters played on Hinsdale Central’s volleyball team.

In birth order, the children are Jimmy, Krystal, 27; Mandy, 25; Kassie, 22; Josh, 20; Jacques 18; Justice, 17; and Jerred, 15.

“It’s great watching them compete,” said Jim, their father.

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