Nevada baseball and softball teams combine to produce nine All-HOIC performers in 2023
The Nevada baseball and softball teams combined for nine All-Heart of Iowa Conference selections during the 2023 season.
The Cub baseball team had five players earn all-conference honors. Sophomore catcher Anthony Eaton made the All-HOIC first team, senior shortstop Karter Beving and sophomore outfielder Jackson Burlage landed on the second team and freshmen Drake Hinson and Kole Beving were named honorable mention.
Eaton hit .488 with six doubles, one home run, six runs and six RBIs in conference play. In the field he threw out three base runners and had six errors in 93 chances.
Joining Eaton on the All-HOIC first team were West Marshall's Grayson Shaver, A.J. Dee, Caden Pfantz, Owen Siegert and Beckham DeSotel; Saydel's Brady Hicks, Mason Hicks, Jeb Gebhart and Jace Embry; Roland-Story's Brett Schmitz, Perry's Fausto Beato, South Hamilton's Landon Skartvedt and Prairie City-Monroe's Nick Farver.
Beving posted a .368 average with one double, 12 runs and nine RBIs in conference games. In the field he only made five errors in 40 chances.
Burlage hit .359 with two doubles, nine runs and eight RBIs. He had three errors in 21 chances defensively.
The other players named to the All-HOIC second team were West Marshall's D.J. Ridout, Saydel's Jaden Cordova and Payton Rummans, Roland-Story's Dillon Lettow, Perry's Owen Myers and Drake Levan, South Hamilton's Tjerdan Johnson and Owen Duns, PCM's Easton Webb, Kaleb Devries and Gavin Fenton and Greene County's Brayden Roberts.
Hinson hit .368 with four doubles, five runs and 14 RBIs. Kole Beving only had two errors in 29 chances in the field and he hit .333 with two runs and eight RBIs.
Eighth-grade shortstop Jorie Hillman, junior outfielder Kylie Taylor and senior first baseman Avery Hinson were the three Nevada softball players to make All-HOIC in 2023.
Hillman was named to the All-HOIC first team. She hit .459 with two doubles, six home runs, 17 runs and 15 RBIs and she made 20 putouts and 15 assists in conference games.
The other first-team selections were Saydel's Dakota Lake, Caydance Sharp, Ryley Pecina and Mackenzie Mckay; Greene County's Emma Hoyle and Olivia Shannon, West Marshall's Ciera Randall, PCM's Joslin Briles and Paige Steenhoek, Roland-Story's Reagan Faber and Kayley Birkland and Perry's Lydia Olejniczak.
The HOIC softball second team was made up of PCM's Rylee Parsons, Addison Steenhoek, Tori Lindsay, RaeAnn Duinink and Riley Johannes; Perry's Maci Tunink and Taylor Atwell, Greene County's Emma Stream, Payton Kokenge and Alexa Peters, West Marshall's Jillian Karsjen, Roland-Story's Peyton Jeter and South Hamilton's Tanna Thompson.
Taylor and Hinson were both named honorable mention.
Taylor hit .333 with two doubles, one triple, 11 steals, nine runs and two RBIs. Hinson posted a .316 average with four doubles, two runs and seven RBIs in HOIC games.
Nevada junior Melanie Khounsourath was named HOIC Distinguished All-Conference, awarded to athletes who were unable to compete for most of the season. Khounsourath hit .500 with a double and an RBI in six at-bats before a severe knee injury suffered during soccer cut her season short.
Final HOIC baseball standings
West Marshall 13-1
Saydel 11-3
PCM 9-5
Roland-Story 7-7
South Hamilton 6-8
Perry 6-8
Nevada 3-11
Greene County 1-13
Final HOIC softball standings
Saydel 13-1
Greene County 12-2
PCM 10-4
Perry 7-7
Roland-Story 7-7
West Marshall 5-9
Nevada 2-12
South Hamilton 0-14
This article originally appeared on Ames Tribune: Nine Nevada baseball and softball players make All-HOIC in 2023
