2008 Texas Class 5A All-State Baseball Team

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.