Lima Locos’ Carter Doorn (Purdue) was named the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League Lou Laso North Division pitcher of the year and the top prospect pitcher and seven Locos were honored on the All-GLSCL team Monday.
Doorn finished the season leading the GLSCL with a 0.88 earned run average. Doorn also ended the season third in the league in strikeouts with 47. Doorn just completed his first college season getting limited action at Purdue University.
Second baseman Jayden Davis (Samford), relief pitchers Anthony Kyle (University of Findlay) and Miller Riggins (Kennesaw) and Dorn received first-team honors. Shortstop Ty Gill (Purdue), third baseman Brennan Norton (Jacksonville State) and closer Patrick Dillon (University of Toledo) snared second-team accolades.
For the second consecutive season, the major awards were divided into both the North and South Divisions.
The selection breakdown for the All-GLSCL Post Season Teams is for each position awarding a first and second-team honoree with all other voter getters being named honorable mention.
All post season selections and awards are determined by the 13 coaching staffs with each team getting one vote.
Other awards included Michigan’s Reece Longstaff winning the Gary Henschen Player of the Year – North Division. He led the Monarchs with a .325 batting average. He was a GLSCL top five finisher in both hits (41) and runs scored (29).
The Gary Henschen South Division Player of the Year went to Southern Ohio’s Kyle Ratliff (SIU Edwardsville) where he led the led the GLSCL with 11 home runs and was second with 34 RBI. Ratliff was just two home runs shy of tying the GLSCL single season home run record. He set the Copperheads season home record previously co-held by former GLSCL Player of the Year winner Blaine Crim.
The Lou Laslo Pitcher of the Year in the South Division was Garret DeClue (University of the Cumberlands) from the Xenia Scouts DeClue accomplished something that had never been done in the GLSCL when he threw his second no-hitter of the season in his final start on July 18. DeClue has a 4-2 record with the Scouts finishing fourth in the league in earned run average (2.14) and tied for fifth in strikeouts with 41.
TheTony Lucadella Top Pitcher Prospect in the South Division went to Hamilton’s Chase Hopewell who wins this award for the second season in a row. Hopewell struck 48 innings in just 29 and 1/3 innings of work coming out to nearly two strikeout per innings pitched.
Michigan’s Ben Komonasky garnered the Joe Carbone the GLSCL Manager of the Year. He led the Monarchs to the North Division championship with the league’s best record. The Monarchs were third in the GLSCL in both team batting average and team earned run average under Komonasky’s tutelage.
