ST. GEORGE — The 4A state championship baseball team from Snow Canyon was well represented when The Fan Sports Network released its All-Region 9 selections.
Devin Dixon, host of The Drive morning sports radio show at 99.5 FM The Fan Sports Network as well as a prolific local high school baseball broadcaster, assembled the team shortly after Snow Canyon captured the 4A title last Saturday.
Paul Ratliff, better known as Prediction Paulie, provided color commentary for every game of 4A bracket play alongside Dixon.
Ratliff helped select the team, as did Kaden Foremaster, host of From the Bleachers and frequent Region 9 game broadcaster.
Leading the way was MVP pitcher Kyson Goates, who anchored a dominant Snow Canyon rotation with a 7-0 record and a 2.38 earned run average in 12 appearances.
Goates yielded 23 runs all season, struck out 60 batters and walked 13. (All statistics in this report are from MaxPreps.)
Dixie standout catcher Ridge Erickson, who will be playing at Brigham Young University next year, was selected as Defensive MVP. Erickson finished with a .996 fielding percentage and had exactly one error all season.
Crimson Cliffs senior Tyler West, who will also be going to Provo next year but to play football for BYU, was tabbed Offensive MVP. The speedster finished the season with 35 stolen bases. He also scored 35 runs.
West finished with a .529 batting average and churned out 46 total hits.
All-Region 9 1st Team
Four players from Snow Canyon made the first team including shortstop Crew Secrist, outfielder Damon Ence, catcher Hayden Smith and outfielder Makiao Swenson.
State runner-up Dixie saw three players selected in shortstop Boston Vest, third baseman Logan Leavitt and Braxton Yates, who played multiple positions for the Flyers and hit .356 with 32 runs batted in.
Haigen Reed was the sole Desert Hills first-teamer after batting .500 for the season and belting nine home runs.
Andrew Shakespeare made the team from Pine View after hitting .430, clubbing four home runs and collecting 27 RBIs.
Crimson Cliffs outfielder Trey Evans was the final selection on the squad.
The future College of Southern Nevada Coyote hit .333 this year, including 11 doubles, three homers and 23 RBIs.
All-Region 9 2nd Team
The state champs placed third baseman/pitcher Tank Kelly, pitcher Andrew Lyon and designated hitter Ryder Harrison on the second squad.
Dixie Flyers Trace Franco, Jake Andreas and Cooper Bartholomew were all selected to the second group as well.
Two Pine View Panthers were chosen, Nash Schroeder and Kyson Milne.
A trio of players from Desert Hills represented the Thunder in Harmon Skeen, Andrew Wilson and Jace Fillmore.
Cedar’s Crew Giles and Hurricane’s Brycen McCauley completed the roster of second-teamers.
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