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Sun March 16, 2014
By Jacob Gill
Philadelphia Region Director of Scouting
1st-team | Honorable Mention | |
Central York | '14 OF Zane Knaub | |
Dallastown Area | '14 RHP Tyler Butcher '14 OF Rob Catchings '14 OF Tanner Forry (Shippensburg) |
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Red Lion Area | '14 C Drew Landis '14 OF Brady Taylor |
'15 LHP Scott Rissler '14 OF Mike Godfrey |
South Western | ||
Spring Grove Area |
'14 IF Nick Spangler (Shippensburg) |
'14 IF Will Maughlin |
1st-team | Honorable Mention | |
Dover Area | '14 OF Grant Hoover (Shippensburg) |
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Kennard-Dale | '14 RHP Matt Belt | '14 RHP Collin Crowell |
New Oxford | '14 IF Austin Kibler | '14 IF Jake Toal |
Northeastern | '14 IF Steve Shimkus | '16 C Devon Blymire |
West York Area | '14 C Cole Bixler '14 OF Chase James |
'14 IF Carson Fries (Misericordia) |
After back-to-back state class AAA titles, you could be forgiven for thinking West York Area might be headed toward a down talent cycle. That, however, would be an incorrect assumption. Returning along with the three players listed above for coach Roger Czerwinski are '15 OF/LHP Brett Kinneman (NC State), '14 IF Brandon Wetzel (Methodist), '14 3B/OF Mike Santiago (Allegany College of MD), '15 1B Logan Stover, and '15 2B Andrew Copeland. The question mark surrounding a potential three-peat is whether or not Kinneman, Fries, and '15 RHP Nick Traettino can step up to replace the 74% of last year's innings that departed due to graduation.
Four starters return to a Kennard-Dale team that graduated eight seniors. The 6-foot-4, 325-pound Belt is a behemoth who is headed to Shippensburg to play football. Also a 1B, he joins Crowell (also an IF) as solid two-way guys for coach Bill Yosca.
Shimkus is the leading returning hitter and pitcher for Northeastern. Blymire more than held his own as a varsity starter his freshman year (.297 AVG, more BB than K, threw out 26% of attempted basestealers). '15 IF Nick Sprenkle's swing isn't the prettiest mechanically, but he takes a short path and has exhibited a knack for finding the barrel.
1st-team | Honorable Mention | |
Bermudian Springs |
'14 OF Alex Orwig '15 IF/RHP Derek Starner '14 RHP/1B Aaron Rebert |
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Eastern York |
'14 LHP/1B Terry Godfrey (Delaware State) '14 C Clayton Miller '14 IF/RHP Dalton Renn |
'14 IF/RHP Thomas Taylor '15 OF Bobby Hendrick |
Littlestown |
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Susquehannock |
'14 OF/RHP Sammy Miller (Longwood) '16 IF Connor Hood '14 IF/RHP Josh Hauser '14 OF Bryan Kerr |
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York Suburban |
'14 LHP/1B Lewis Myers |
1st-team | 2nd-team | Honorable Mention | |
Biglerville |
'14 IF Koby Griest '14 IF Zach Sheets |
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Delone Catholic |
'14 RHP Dalton Haymaker (Frederick CC) |
'14 IF Devon Craig | |
Fairfield |
'15 Util/RHP Austin Ford | ||
Hanover |
'14 IF Zac Sheaffer '14 OF Brad Irvin |
'14 RHP Jared Peterman '14 OF Nick Trish |
'14 Brady Goodfellow |
York Catholic |
'14 IF/RHP Erich Hartman (Kentucky) '14 OF Clint Bohn |
'14 IF Matt McKim '15 OF Jake Krevetski |
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York County Tech | '14 IF/RHP Derrick Smith |
Class AA quarterfinalist Delone Catholic returns its top two arms in Haymaker and Craig, as well as their battery-mate in '15 C Austin Roth, as the Squires prepare to make another run at the district title. Haymaker and Craig will be among the primary run-producers for coach Doug Arnold's offense, which graduated six starters.
York Catholic returns a veteran group that graduated only two seniors and should be a strong contender in class A. Coach Joe Gurreri's line-up hit a collective .330 last year and includes all four players listed above, as well as '14 Util Patrick Clement (York).
Sheets and Griest will be called upon to lead a Biglerville roster with nine returning players. The biggest questions for coach Jeff Taylor are whether his pitching and defense will be up to the challenge.
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