Meet the 2023 All-Area Baseball Dream Team and Coach of the Year

The 2023 spring sports season concluded with two baseball teams winning district championships, breaking school losing streaks for district titles in the process. Each district championship team will be represented in the Coach of the Year honorees.

The county was well represented in the all-senior Lenawee County All-Star Game at the end of the school year. Several student baseball athletes earned all-conference honors for their efforts this season. To add to the accolades, this year's list of All-Area Dream Team honorees includes star players from every team.

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Each year, coaches from around Hillsdale County submit names for the All-Area Dream Team list. Two seniors each season will be honored with as a co-captain of the Dream Team. This year, there are five dream team honorees listed as starting pitchers. Three other star pitchers from the area were given both fielder and reliever status to reflect their pitching accomplishments this past season. These honorees are separate from the fielder's category, which includes eight additional honorees. Each team had at least one honoree this season and has three honorable mention selections.

In addition to the All-Area Dream Team, the Hillsdale Daily News names a Coach of the Year honoree and an honorable mention Coach of the Year. The Dream Team list also identifies athletes who are seniors and were members of the Class of 2023.

2023 All-Area Dream Team Pitchers

• Beau Groves - Pitcher - Camden-Frontier - Senior Co-Captain

• Gavin Wickham - Pitcher - Hillsdale - Senior

• Drew Bradley - Pitcher - Jonesville

• Junior Alvarez - Pitcher - Litchfield

• Kade Spahr - Pitcher - Pittsford - Senior

2023 All-Area Dream Team Fielders and Relievers

• Brayden Miller - Fielder/Reliever - Camden-Frontier

• Tyler Bills - Fielder/Reliever - Litchfield

• Tyler Scholfield - Fielder/Reliever - Jonesville - Senior Co-Captain

2023 All-Area Dream Team Fielders

• Aarien Sanders - Fielder - Camden-Frontier - Senior

• Jacob Davis - Fielder - Hillsdale - Senior

• Miguel Pedroza - Fielder - Litchfield

• Bradley Wright - Fielder - Jonesville - Senior

• Nolan Paradine - Fielder - North Adams-Jerome

• Brady Hartman - Fielder - Pittsford

• Landon Clabaugh - Fielder - Reading - Senior

• Alec Shamplo - Fielder - Waldron

Coach of the Year: Corey Rogers - Jonesville High School

After winning just 13 games during the spring of 2022, head coach Corey Rogers regrouped the Comet seniors-to-be over the offseason and had them ready to lead the club out of their slump. Coach Rogers led the four senior members of the Jonesville varsity baseball team to several winning streaks, a conference championship and a district championship.

In Rogers' third year as head coach, the team went 26-11 overall and earned a share of the Big 8 Conference title. The team defeated their Big 8 rivals from Homer to win the district championship game. The team played through downpour and two storm delays to win the title. It was the program's first district championship since 2018. The team played Jackson Lumen Christi in the regional semifinals, losing in a 0-2 barnburner.

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Coach Rogers returns several key pitchers and fielders to the program next season. They will enter their first year as members of the Cascades Conference.

Honorable Mention Coach of the Year: Michael Conant - Camden-Frontier High School

Camden-Frontier varsity baseball head coach Michael Conant and the program said goodbye to six senior members of the class of 2023. But, before they graduated, coach Conant helped lead the 2023 team to heights they haven't seen in 10 years.

Coach Conant led the Camden-Frontier varsity baseball team to a 17-8-1 record in 2023, taking the SCAA East Division Championship during the regular season. In the postseason, Coach Conant and the team won their first district championship in 10 years. The team played a tight championship game against the Reading Rangers, but a strong pitching performance from Dream Team captain Beau Groves helped lift the team to a 10-8 victory.

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Coach Conant will return several key players to the 2023 roster, including Dream Team honoree Brayden Miller.

2023 Dream Team Honorable Mentions

• Wade Brown - Camden-Frontier - Senior

• Kaiden Conroy - Camden-Frontier

• Rodney Weir - Camden-Frontier

• Bradley Ellsworth - Hillsdale - Senior

• Brady Kast - Hillsdale

• Aaron Webb - Hillsdale

• Devan Herendeen - Jonesville

• Damon Newell - Jonesville

• Jaxson Phifer - Jonesville - Senior

• Logan Buehrle - Litchfield - Senior

• Hunter Snyder - Litchfield

• Wesley Wilson - Litchfield

• Jace Brink - North Adams-Jerome - Senior

• Carson Delaney - North Adams-Jerome

• Thayden Welch - North Adams-Jerome

• Gavyn Carden - Pittsford

• Lane Lewis - Pittsford

• Mason Payne - Pittsford

• Zac Affholter - Reading - Senior

• Colton Bassage - Reading - Senior

• Zack Peiffer - Reading

• Frank Duelo - Waldron - Senior

• Scotty Lee - Waldron

• Troy Shamplo - Waldron

This article originally appeared on Hillsdale Daily News: Meet the 2023 All-Area Baseball Dream Team and Coach of the Year