USA – Pitchers Ben Flora of Plano West and Taylor Jungman of Georgetown shared player of the year honors
on the Texas Sports Writers Association Class 5A all-state baseball team.
Flora, who led Plano West to the state championship, was 13-0 with a 0.91 earned run average. Jungman was 14-0 with an 0.89 ERA.
Here are the Texas Sports Writers Association’s 2008 Texas high school baseball all-state teams:
Player of the Year — (tie) Taylor Jungmann, Georgetown, pitcher, sr.; and Ben Flora, Plano West, pitcher, Sr.
Coach of the Year — Kendall Clark, Plano West
FIRST TEAM
Pitchers — Taylor Jungmann, Georgetown, sr.; Ben Flora, Plano West, sr.; Taylor Wall, Houston Westside, sr.
Catcher — Jeremy Schaffer, Houston Bellaire, sr.
First baseman — Ryan Ford, Plano West, soph.
Second baseman — Adam Pena, Sharyland, jr.
Shortstop — Michael Garza, SA MacArthur, sr.
Third baseman — Peter Goudeau, Houston Lamar, sr.
Outfielders — Jason Coats, Plano West, sr.; (tie) Casey Selsor, San Antonio Reagan, sr.; Jase Morgan, Amarillo, sr.; and Randall Thorpe, Colleyville Heritage, sr.
DH — Brett Marshall, Baytown Sterling, sr.
SECOND TEAM
Pitchers — Tyler Grygar, Bryan, sr.; Ross Stripling, Southlake Carroll, sr.; Tommy Collier, Cy-Fair, sr.
Catcher — Santiago Ruiz, San Antonio Reagan, sr.
First baseman — Erik Miller, Georgetown, sr.
Second baseman — Kale Kiser, Plano West, sr.
Shortstop — Anthony Rendon, Houston Lamar, sr.
Third baseman — (tie) Donald Plant, Plano West, jr. and Tanner Toal, Southlake Carroll, sr.
Outfielders — Hunter Cervenka, Baytown Sterling, sr.; Geoffrey Davenport, FW Paschal, sr.; (tie) Jason Mohn, Klein, sr. and Krey Bratson, Bryan, soph.
DH — Kyle Winkler, Sugar Land Kempner, sr.
THIRD TEAM
Pitchers — Matthew Purke, Klein, jr.; Casey Selsor, San Antonio Reagan, sr.; and (tie) Josh Blanco, El Paso Franklin, sr. and Gabriel Aguilar, El Paso Socorro, sr.
Catcher — Alvin Snider, Alvin, sr.
First baseman — Luis Pollorena, Laredo United, jr.
Second baseman — (tie) Terry Salazar, San Antonio O’Connor, sr. and Tyler Grygar, Bryan, sr.
Shortstop — Spenser Mailman, Lubbock Monterey, sr.
Third baseman — (tie) Daniel Neumann, Houston Memorial, jr.; Ory Kalenkosky, San Antonio John Marshall, sr.; and Guadalupe Lopez, La Joya, soph.
Outfielders — Tim Maitland, Colleyville Heritage, sr.; Morgan Mickan, Georgetown, sr. ; and (tie) Jordan Imhoff, Arlington Martin, sr. and Tyler Migl, San Antonio O’Connor, sr.
DH — Austin Freitas, Langham Creek, sr.
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