MARAUDER BASEBALL LANDS FOUR ON ALL-WESTERN STATE EAST TEAM

Photos by Bruce Jacobsen

The Marauder Baseball team landed four players on the All-Western State East team it was announced today.  AVC ended 20-20 overall, 8-12 and fourth in the Western State East.

Jorge Villalobos (IF) and Blake Leidholdt (Utl) were named First team.  Villalobos had the top average for the Marauders at .374 while Leidholdt was second at .366.  Leidholdt also compliled a 3-2 record from the mound, with AVC low 3.48 ERA.  He also had three complete games.

Tabbed for the second team was Ethan Avant (IF), who was the Marauders' power hitter with seven triples (4th best on the Marauder season charts), six home runs (five in conference) and a .620 slugging percentage and Jonathan Cornish who hit .314 overall and .329 in conference.

Named Honorable Mention were Kyle Lathrop, Anthony Parisi and Trevor Morrison.

Villalobos (SS), Leidholdt (P) and Morrison (RF) were all name Gold Glove at their positions.

One final note - the 35 triples hit by the Marauders as a team this year were the most in state for the season.