After a historical season, the Warrenton High School baseball team racked up 12 all-conference awards. Most notably, junior Austin Haas won GAC North player of the year and Head Coach Eric Burle was …
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After a historical season, the Warrenton High School baseball team racked up 12 all-conference awards. Most notably, junior Austin Haas won GAC North player of the year and Head Coach Eric Burle was awarded his fourth GAC North coach of the year.
Out of the 17 players on the roster, nine Warriors were recognized with all-conference awards. Seniors Ben Peth, Caleb Clark, Joe Goldsmith and Troy Anderson ended their high school baseball careers on first team all-conference, along with junior Austin Haas.
Senior Tyler Oliver, juniors Mason Thompson, Colin DiSilvester and freshman Carter Martin received second team all-conference. DiSilvester also won the sportsmanship award.
In addition, Haas and Peth were awarded first team all-district. Martin, Clark, Goldsmith, Thompson, Oliver and Anderson also received second team in all-district.
Clark ended the season with a total of 32 runs, Anderson had three triples and an RBI of 31, while Oliver had 30 RBI. Martin had a 6-1 record when he pitched.
Seven players also received academic all-conference. These players are Austin Haas, Bryce Phillips, Troy Anderson, Joe Goldsmith, Carter Martin, Keegan Mellegaard and Ric Standley.
“We had a pretty good team,” Burle said. “It’s easy to manage when you have talent and typically when you do well, it’s a result of your players and the time they put in and the skills that they have.”
Peth noted that this is his third time winning first team all-conference, however the recognition never gets old.
“There were a lot of other good pitchers in our conference, so it was good to be one of them,” Peth said.
Peth gave his thanks to Haas for calling all the pitches and adding to the success he had this season. Peth had a 7-1 record when he was pitching, two shutouts and 75 strikeouts this season.
He added that his favorite play of the season was his no-hitter against Chaminade.
While the Warriors did end their season after a loss in the district semifinals, Burle is proud of his players and glad they received the recognition they deserved.
Burle did add that there will be some challenges, most of them he sees as good challenges, for next season after losing five crucial seniors.
“Anytime you replace that much amount of talent, there are going to be some growing pains,” Burle said. “The baseball program’s going to miss our five seniors. They all played a crucial role in our success.”
“We’re going to be missing out on one of the better pitchers that have pitched for Warrenton, Ben Peth. You got someone like Caleb that has had a good high school career and Tyler Oliver and Joe in the outfield and Troy coming back and playing,” Burle said. “It was a good group, we’re going to miss them and hopefully that plays off for the guys next year.”