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- 0:05Speaker 1: Adam Swanson, Alec Navatney's Player of the Year Awards Headline
- 0:08Baseball All Conference Honors Written by J. T. Penalty. This
- 0:14article is being read by an automated voice brought to
- 0:17you by Everlet. Numerous times area baseball players received all
- 0:23conference accolades following the conclusion of the twenty twenty sixth season,
- 0:27headlined by Ottawa and Marquette each having a student athlete
- 0:31take home their conference's Player of the Year award. Interstate
- 0:35eight Ottawa senior Adam Swanson had his remarkable twelfth grade
- 0:39year recognized by his conference's coaches, as Swanson was voted
- 0:43the twenty twenty six Interstate eight Conference Player of the
- 0:46Year after batting point five to five to one and
- 0:49going five zero on the mound in conference competition. Swanson's
- 0:53was one of six pirates to earn All Conference first
- 0:56team accolades, the others being seniors Colt Bryson and Lucas Farrerhlaw,
- 1:00junior's Rizon Contreras and Alexo Fernandez, and sophomore Rory Moore.
- 1:05Sophomore Jake Torres was an honorable mentionee. Illinois Central eight,
- 1:10a pair of Street or Bulldogs were selected to the
- 1:12twenty twenty sixth Illinois Central Eight All Conference Team. Both
- 1:16seniors Cole winter Road and Clay Christophe were voted onto
- 1:20the team by the coaches of the ice Conference. Tri
- 1:23County Marquette senior Alec Novotny was voted both the TCC
- 1:27Player of the Year and its Pitcher of the Year
- 1:29by the coaches of the conference. Novotny was also a
- 1:33unanimous first team selection, along with Marquette junior Griffin Dauberstein
- 1:38and Henry Senaquine senior Carson Rowe. Dwight senior Joey Starks
- 1:42was also a first team selection. Times Area ballplayers making
- 1:46the second team included Dwight junior Aiden Column, Marquette seniors
- 1:49Grant Dose and Anthony Couch, Seneca senior Cody Clennon, Seneca
- 1:53freshman Grady Hall, and Dwight senior Evan Cox. Among those
- 1:58earning honorable mention were Mark Qutt junior Easton de Bernardi
- 2:01and Marquette junior Caden Durden. Little Ten. Seven of the
- 2:05fifteen spots on the twenty twenty six Little Ten All
- 2:08Conference Team were filled by members of the league's co champions,
- 2:12Serena and Somanok, senior Peyton Twaite, junior Nolan Muffler unanimous,
- 2:17and sophomore Nate Kelly unanimous represented Serena. All four of
- 2:21Somanok's selections were juniors Brady Andrews unanimous, Tristan Reed unanimous,
- 2:26Luke Hartzell, and Alex Barnes. Newark Seniors Jacob Sailor unanimous
- 2:31and David Ulrich unanimous, along with junior Toby Stephan, were
- 2:35selected for Earlville Leland. Juniors Aiden Browner and Declan Brennan,
- 2:40both unanimous, were chosen. Kishwaukie River Sandwich had one player,
- 2:44senior Braden Baringer, selected for the All KRC team. Plano
- 2:49also had one player selected, junior Quentin Santorio, Heart of Illinois.
- 2:53A quartet of Fieldcrest Knights earned All Conference accolades from
- 2:56the coaches of the HOIC. Drew Overacker and Leighton Gourds
- 3:01were both second team selections. Eli Gourds and Lucas Anson
- 3:04earned honorable mention.