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By Dan Williams
West Virginia Director of Scouting

Throughout the West Virginia high school baseball regular season we will be posting a Power 5 in each classification. Updates will be made for Class AAA on Mondays, AA on Tuesdays and A on Wednesdays. Check back frequently at PBR West Virginia to follow team and individual results from the previous week. Today we continue coverage with a look at our Week Four AAA top 5.

 

CLASS AAA WEEK 4 POWER 5 

1. Hurricane Redskins

2. St. Albans Red Dragons

3. Washington Patriots

4. George Washington Patriots

5. Wheeling Park Patriots

 

 

HURRICANE

PBR Ranked Players:

1. Noah Short, RHP, #4 PBR West Virginia Class of 2018 Rankings, Moorehed State Commit

2. Chandler Kelly, SS/2B, #5 PBR West Virginia Class of 2018 Rankings, Marshall Commit

3. Liam Bailey, RHP/OF, #11 PBR West Virginia Class of 2018 Rankings

4. Nathaniel Dunham, 3B/OF, #21 PBR West Virginia Class of 2018 Rankings

5. Jacob Allen, C, #22 PBR West Virginia Class of 2018, Daytona State JC Commit

6. Noah Birthisel, OF/1B, #27PBR West Virginia Class of 2018 Rankings, West Virginia Weslyan Commit

7. Jonathon Blackwell, LHP, #1 PBR West Virginia Class of 2019 Rankings, Coastal Carolina Commit

8. Austin Dearing, OF, #3 PBR West Virginia Class of 2020 Rankings

Summary:

Hurricane continues to lead the way in AAA. The Redskins put together a 5-1 week with the only loss coming to out-of-state Greenup County. As is the case with all good teams, contributions were made across the board with individual standout games being recorded by Nathaniel Dunham (4-for-4. 5 RBI), against week three number four George Washington and Austin Dearing (1-for-2, 4 RBI, HR) against Myrtle Beach.

ST. ALBANS

PBR Ranked Players:

1. Chase Matheny, LHP, #36 PBR West Virginia Class of 2018 Rankings

2. Akili Johnson, SS/2B, #46 PBR West Virginia Class of 2018 Rankings

2. Jake Carr, LHP/OF, #2 PBR West Virginia Class of 2019 Rankings, West Virginia Commit

3. Nick Loftis, 3B/RHP, #3 PBR West Virginia Class of 2019 Rankings

4. Ridge Lester, RHP/3B, #8 PBR West Virginia Class of 2019 Rankings

5. Connor Fizer, OF/RHP, #20 PBR West Virginia Class of 2019 Rankings

6. Ayden Hodges, LHP/1B, #1 PBR West Viirginia Class of 2020 Rankings

7. Casey Kemplin, SS/2B, #7 PBR West Vrginia Class of 2020 Rankings

8. Noah Cummings, 1B/3B, #8 PBR West Virginia Class of 2020 Rankings

Summary:

St. Albans continues to occupy the number two slot. After an early week 4-2 loss to week three number four George Washington, the Red Dragons bounced back with a purpose. In going 4-0 the remainder of the week, St. Albans outscored it's opponents by a combined 67-9 margin. Standout offensive performances included Connor Fizer (4-for-4, 2 R, 3 RBI) and Noah Cummings (4-for-4, 2 R, 3 RBI) against Shady Spring. On the bump the power arms continued to impress with Ayden Hodges twirling a six inning, ten strikeout No-Hitter and Nick Loftis fashioning a complete game, eight strikeout, shutout against a quality Ripley team.

Washington

PBR Ranked Players:

1. Spencer DeLawder, OF, #16 PBR West Virginia Class Of 2018 Rankings

2. Cameron Pine, C/OF, #19 PBR West Virginia Class of 2018 Rankings

3. Dalton Jackson, OF, #29, PBR West Virginia Class of 2018 Rankings

4. Craig Link, RHP/SS, #37, PBR West Virginia Class of 2018 Rankings

5. Trey Virts, OF, #40 PBR West Virginia Class of 2018 Rankings

6. Nathan Kerr, LHP/1B, #41 PBR West Virginia Class of 2018 Rankings

7. Zachary Depoy, RHP/3B, #53 PBR West Virginia Class of 2018 Rankings

8. Cullen Watson, 2B/RHP, #58 PBR West Virginia Class of 2018 Rankings

Summary:

Washington remains our number three after a 4-1 week. As expected, the Patriots continue to use their team speed and athleticism to generate consistent offense. Cameron Pine and Spencer Delawder put up solid weeks highlighted by Pine's (3-for-3, 2 R, 1 RBI) againsnt Ripley and DeLawder's ( 2-for-3, 2 R, 3 RBI) versus Spring Mills.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

PBR Ranked Players:

1. Grant Wells, SS/RHP, #5 PBR West Virginia Class of 2019 Rankings, Marshall  football Commit

2. Aidan Johnson, C/1B, #9 PBR West Virginia Class of 2019 Rankings

3. Paul Boddy, RHP/1B, #16 PBR West Virginia Class of 2019 Rankings

4. Preston Taylor, OF, #44, PBR West Virginia Class of 2019 Rankings

5. Tanner Williams, 3B/RHP, #49 PBR West Virginia Class of 2019 Rankings

6. Elias Miller, 2B/SS, #54 PBR West Virginia Class of 2019 Rankings

7. Brayden McCallister, SS/2B, #5 PBR West Virginia Class of 2020 Rankings

8. Trey Ritchie, RHP/OF, #11 PBR West Virginia Class of 2020 Rankings

Summary:

George Washington holds steady at number four. The Patriots fared well against a formidable schedule. The highlight of the week was a huge win against defending AAA State Champion and present Power 5 number two, St. Alban's. In that game Braydem Mcallister and Grant Wells combined to hold the powerful Red Dragon offense to two unearned runs. Preston Taylor did much of the damage at the plate going 2-for-3 and driving in two. The two losses came to class AAA number one Hurricane in a game that was tied going into the seventh and Class AA number two Chapmanville. Impressive weekly lines were turned in by Aidan Johnson ( 9-for-15, 10 R, 6 RBI) and Taylor ( 7-for-13, 3 R, 9 RBI).

WHEELING PARK 

PBR Ranked Players:. 

1. Jarrod Jones, RHP/C, #34 PBR West Virginia Class of 2018 Rankings, Fairmont State Commit

2 . Brock Archer, OF/RHP, #42 PBR West Virginia Class of 2019 Rankings

3. Stephen Graebe, LHP, #43 PBR West Virginia Class of 2019 Rankings

4 .Nolan Mattern, C/2B. #52 PBR West Virginia Class of 2019 Rankings 

5. Ben Taylor, RHP/1B, #13 PBR West Virginia Class of 2019 Rankings

6. Trevor Thomas, SS/RHP, #34 PBR West Virginia Class of 2019 Rankings

Summary:

Wheeling Park rounds out the top five after a 4-1 week with the lone loss coming to University. Trevor Thomas was the standout offensive performer of the week. He combine for an ( 8-for-18, 8 R, 3 RBI) week.

 

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