Congrats to the 2007 Pre-Season All Star Team
DANNY ABDALLA KENT ISLAND
ALEX BECHTA CENTENNIAL
TYLER BENNETT COLONEL RICHARDSON
STEVE BENVENUTO SNOW HILL
KEVIN BRADY GAITHERSBURG
COREY CARR NORTHERN GARRETT
JASON DANIELS ARUNDEL
MARK DATTILIO NORTH HAGERSTOWN
PAUL DEVITO ARCHBISHOP SPALDING
WILL EVANS JAMES M BENNETT
BRIAN GREEN PARKSIDE
AUSTIN HARCLERODE CENTENNIAL
BRETT HARMAN WESTMINSTER
KEITH HESSLER SPRINGBROOK
TYLER HIBBS ARUNDEL
BRIAN HUDSON STEPHEN DECAUTER
KEVIN JACOB PARKVILLE
KYLE JUDSON QUINCE ORCHARD
KYLE KANE BOONSBORO
JEFF KEMP ARCHBISHOP SPALDING
ADAM KOLAREK CATONSVILLE
TY MAIN MIDDLETOWN
LOUEY MARI SAINT PAULS
CHRIS MOORE CHESAPEAKE (A.A.)
JASON PATTEN ARCHBISHOP SPALDING
SHAWN PLEFFNER ARUNDEL
RYAN RIVERS EASTERN TECH
SHAWN SWETNAM ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
MICHAEL TURNER SAINT MICHAELS
JOE YERMAL MCDONOGH

MEDIA PERSON OF THE YEAR
JAMES PETERS GAZETTE NEWSPAPERS

SERVICE TO BASEBALL
FRANK "JOCKO" SVOBODA

WOMAN OF THE YEAR
DENISE GORHEM BCC BASEBALL

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As nominated by the MSABC and Maryland High School Coaches:

Congratulations to the players nominated.

MSABC Pre-Season All-State Nominees 2007*

Alphabetical HS – CL - Pos

Abdalla Kent Island - 07 - P
Baden Huntingtown - 07 - 2b
Barrett Wooten - 07 – Of-P
Bender Wooten - 07 – Inf
Bennett Col Richardson -08 - C
Benvenuto Snow Hill - 07 – OF-2b
Bersett The Heights - 07 – C
Blackwell Sherwood – 07 - P
Brady Gaithersburg - 08 - P-SS
Carr No Garrett - 07 - C
Coker No. Calvert – 07 – P-Inf
Cook No Hartford - 07 – Inf
Daniels Arundel - 07 – Of
Dattilio No Hagerstown – 07 – Of
DeVito Arch Spaulding – 08 - Of
Evans Bennett -07- Of
Favazza Decatur – 07 - P
Feldman Walt Whitman – 07 – P
Fitzpatrick Georgetown Prep – 07 – Of-C
Fuqua Avalon - 07 - P
Green Parkside – 08 - SS
Hall Broadneck - 07 – C-Of
Harclerode Centennial HS – 07 – 3b
Hardy Huntingtown - 07 - P-3b
Harman Westminister – 07 - P
Hessler Springbrook – 07 - P
Hibbs Arundel – 08 – P - SS
Horning Georgetown Prep - 07 – C
Hudson Decatur – 08 - SS
Jacob Parkville – 07 - P
Judson Quince Orchard – 07-SS
Kane Boonsboro – 07 - C
Kemp Arch Spaulding -08 - SS
Kempa Eastern Tech – 07 - OF
Kolarek Catonsville – 07 - Of
Lincalis Gilman - -07 - C
Lingerman Calvert Hall - 08 – SS
Lombardozzi Althoton – 07 - SS
Main Middletown – 07 - P
Mari St Paul’s – 07 - P
Markey St Paul’s -07 – 3b-Of
Mattison Perry Hall - 07 – P
McIntyre Loyola Blakefield -07 -SS
McTighe Rockville – 07 - OF
Moore Chesapeake – 07 - P
Moss St Pauls’ -07 – 1b
Pace Rich Mont – 07 – OC-C
Patten Arch Spaulding – 08 - P
Pleffner Arundel – 07 – 1b
Rivers, Nick DeMatha – 08 – 1b
Rivers, Ryan Eastern Tech – 07 - P
Scholtz DeMatha – 07 - P
Stevens Good Council – 07 – SS
Stewart St. Mary’s -08 - P
Svec No Hartford - 07 – Of
Swetnam Roosevelt – 07 – P-SS
Thompson Arch Curley -08 - P
Tischler Churchill – 07-C
Travers Riv. Bapt – 08 -C
Turner St Michaels – 08 - SS
Walter C. M Wright - 07 – Of
Whipp Tuscarora - 07 – Inf
Winegardner Riv. Bapt – 09 - SS
Wyman Long Reach- 07 – C
Yermal McDonogh – 07 - P

*HS Players from MD Private and Public HS eligeable.

Also, from last tally (for those with NTK),
~15 HS Sr, from the list, have early signed (NLI) to various NCAA DI's, and a few more have verballed (or otherwise) to DII-DIII & 2 year schools. Congrats again.



Regards,
Bear

This list is incomplete --- why have the HS baseball players that compete in Maryland not included ---- this is a joke ---much like the Battle of the Ship!

Need to include the baseball players from DC --

The honor is bestowed on those that attend Maryland public and private high schools, not DC, Virginia nor anywhere else. Quit whining because you chose to send your son to St. John's. That program often, not always, gets more press than it deserves, IMHO. Get over it.

Congratulations to all those honored.

I guess you are right --if the kids from DC private schools and the VA schools were included --- this list would be more realistic and also include significantly less players from Maryland.

Granted there are many talented gifted players in northern VA and D.C. But with that said look at the name of the organization. it is the MARYLAND assos. of baseball coaches. Not the Mid-Atlantic or whatever. Therefor you have the MARYLAND pre-season all-state team. You are reading way to much into it

Agree -- sincere congratulations to all the those recognized!

Every year when the list comes up there are questions on how and why players are or are not on the list.

FIRST CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE PLAYERS ON THE LIST.

Second below is a link to last years discussion (which has a link to the prior year). Same concerns/controversy that will pop up agin this year.

Prior year(s) discussions

One glaring omission...

Alex Bechta, Centennial, '07, OF

LT,
Interesting comment.

From the information distributed among MSABC before Dec 5, that talented HS player was NOT on the nominee list, or ballot that I was emailed and voted on.

I do know the nice family of the talented HS player you mentioned and have been over their house for steak dinner, as I coached the older brother (at Penn State maybe?) when he was a teenager. Don't think (or haven't heard) younger brother has early signed. Yet, knowing the family, I will bet younger brother is as smart as older brother, since getting into Penn State is getting harder every year (especially for out of staters).

I did see the Centennial Head Coach at the Dec meeting. He may have submitted a write in. Don't know. I more recall him complaining that the Howard County HS players had to compete in the same MSABC Regional as HS Players in Montgomery County, and Southern Maryland counties, and that he pleaded to move Howard County from the MSABC South Region to the MSABC North Region. That in itself, was interesting.

Here's the top 12 (listed alphabetically) 2007 vote getters.

Tyler Bennett
Steve Benvenuto
Brian Green
Brett Harman
Keith Hessler
Tyler Hibbs
Kevin Jacob
Kyle Kane
Adam Kolarek
Shawn Pleffner
Ryan Rivers
Joe Yermal

Since the goal was to recognize 30 HS players at the MSABC Banquet, the concensus and voting on the next 18 players was no picnic this year, sort of speak, and probably more so this year than in the last ten. (i.e. new inexperienced MSABC Board of Directors).

Bottom Line: The process probably is not perfect. It does work. It could be improved. And reminds me of the controversial of the BSC algorithm. And of course HS Teachers that coach HS baseball would not be considered math subject matter experts, with exception (ie C Sullivan - R Cameron, a few others).

Summary: Let's see your $25 MSABC dues and come out and have some other interesting points of view.

Happy Holiday,
Bear

quote:

Originally posted by Trepfan:
Need to include the baseball players from DC --

You mean the DC player(s) getting heavily recruited by Wake Forrest and MD? I think you'll be better pleased when your son makes ALL-MET... Wink Wink

quote:

Originally posted by Bear:

Since the goal was to recognize 30 HS players at the MSABC Banquet, the concensus and voting on the next 18 players was no picnic this year, sort of speak, and probably more so this year than in the last ten. (i.e. new inexperienced MSABC Board of Directors).

Bottom Line: The process probably is not perfect.

Summary: Let's see your $25 MSABC dues and come out and have some other interesting points of view.

Bear

Dues portion says it all.............

Not speaking for him but I think what he was saying is without becoming a member you cant vote or nominate anyone. All in all it is in my opinion run very fair. The SAD part to me is that I think there was like 40 or so schools represented there and many (too many) not there.

When will the complete list be published?

Bear,

You are correct and I agree it happens every year that players get overlooked. I saw Alex play with Donovan quite a bit last summer. He was real impressive. His physical strength at times made it seem like a man against boys.

I'm confident he will have a great season this spring. I'm pulling for him to be a two sporter in college. I would think he will be heading to a top academic school (Bucknell, Lafayette, Penn, somewhere along that line). His rare combination of incredible strength and speed tells me he could play football and baseball at the next level.

I haven't been involved in MSABC for many years. I'm looking forward to getting back into it in a few years.

Happy Holidays!

Bear - can you explain what you meant by

"the concensus and voting on the next 18 players was no picnic this year, sort of speak,"

as compared to how the first 12 were voted in? Did you mean that in your opinion the final 18 were not somehow "worthy" or as good selections as the first 12 and were just "fillers"? or something?

And, can you give us a short explanation of how the voting (selection) occurs? I'm sure we'd all be interested. If this has already been explained in a previous year's post, I apologize.

Hi Mrs H,

Picnics, for me, are simply as a pleasure excursion at which a meal is eaten outdoors, ideally, taking place in a beautiful landscape
(often a ballpark). Picnics are family-oriented and are enjoyable stress free occasions between people, a romantic picnic, or a large get together such as company and church picnics.

On romantic and family picnics a picnic basket and a blanket are usually brought along. At company and church picnics outdoor games or some other form of entertainment are common.
Some picnics in the south (or Austrailia) can also be referred to as "barbie".

And not to be redundant "at the MSABC Banquet, the concensus and voting on the next 18 players was no picnic this year, sort of speak, and probably more so this year than in the last ten. (i.e. new inexperienced MSABC Board of Directors)."

I believe when a HS player can be recognized for his contributions both on the field and in the classroom, it is a positive experience.

I would have to go back and look at my notes, however, I thought I nominated your #1. The final tally of the thirty Pre-Season selections are announced to the public at the Press Conference at Camden Yards in Feb.

Enjoy you son's HS Sr season

LT,

I just heard the older brother, is not on the Penn St roster for 2006-2007, and is administrating Centennial HS Booster Club. (Is he at another college?)

At the May 2006 MSABC Classic at T Stone HS the younger brother topped out at 78-80, and by definition, that arm strength is what it is.

OBTW: Will the IC's "hobby shop" transition to a seemless systems of systems in 2007? 2008?

I heard some media poll say it's acceptable to say Merry Christmas, again. (Last year was Happy Holiday lol.)

Merry Christmas
Bear

Bear: I guess I deserved that as I was not very clear about asking my question. I was feeling concern for the feelings of the 18 who's picks were controversial or stressful as compared to the top 12. Of course, all 30 picks should feel proud of the honor of being selected to the Preseason Team and I'm sure they will, whether or not their selection caused stress or came about with lack of consensus.

To be perfectly honest ladies and gentleman, the one name missing that I find to be the most questionable (argubly) is a senior from Middletown High Ty Main, the kid is an excellent hitter, fielder(OF), and pitcher. He is going to Florida International which is a pretty good D1 program. He was also a team Maryland particpate.