All-State Baseball: 2nd & 3rd Teams

Lakewood, California’s winningest program since the 1970s, is represented on the second team by pitcher Ryan Hare while another who made it to second team was Santa Fe Christian and USC-bound Dillon Paulson. Photos: Twitter.com & sdhoc.com.

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For the all-state underclass teams, CLICK HERE.
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Note: We’ll have an inside look at this year’s all-state baseball teams after all of the teams are chosen, including names of players we really wanted to pick but couldn’t. That post plus a brand new archive of all-state first team picks back to 1990 (which also has been added to the site today) is for Gold Club members only. Several in the archive will be in this year’s MLB All-Star Game. To join our team today, CLICK HERE.

If you are chosen to any of the Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams, you should consider yourself an “all-state” player. Whether it’s first team overall, second team overall, third team, underclass, medium schools or small schools, to be on any of these teams should be considered an all-state honor.

There are 1,200 high schools in California and just about any place you go the competition in baseball is great. That’s why California dwarfs all other states – and any other nation – for most players in the major leagues, most College World Series champions and just about any other metric you can find.

We try to research and collect info from everywhere we can and we give people several weeks to send in nominations. Still, it’s not a perfect system so of course it’s possible to miss on a deserving player.

With that said, congratulations to the following 2015 Cal-Hi Sports all-state baseball second team members as well as third team:

Dalton Blumenfield of Los Angeles Hamilton batted .596, but it also was hard to miss his 12th round MLB draft selection by L.A. Angels. Photo: PerfectGame.org.

SECOND TEAM PITCHERS

Andrew Carter (St. Francis, Mountain View) Sr.
Marrick Crouse (Dana Hills, Dana Point) Sr.
Colton Eastman (Central, Fresno) Sr.
Brian Gadsby (Crescenta Valley, La Crescenta) Sr.
Anthony Guardado (Nogales, La Puente) Sr.
Micah Hall (Beyer, Modesto) Sr.
Ryan Hare (Lakewood) Sr.
Connor Loeprich (Buchanan, Clovis) Sr.
Quentin Longrie (JSerra, San Juan Capistrano) Sr.
Jeremy Polon (El Camino Real, Woodland Hills) Jr.

SECOND TEAM INFIELD

Chandler Bengston (Buchanan, Clovis) Sr.
Joey Czarske (Agoura, Agoura Hills) Sr.
Nico Hoerner (Head-Royce, Oakland) Sr.
Royce Lewis (JSerra, San Juan Capistrano) Soph.
Dillon Paulson (Santa Fe Christian, Solana Beach) Sr.
Austin Russ (Hart, Newhall) Sr.
Luke Williams (Dana Hills, Dana Point) Sr.

Colton Eastman from Central of Fresno was the Co-Pitcher of the Year by the Fresno Bee. That paper’s other Co-Pitcher of the Year, Buchanan’s Connor Loeprich, also is on the all-state second team. Photo: Twitter.com.

SECOND TEAM MULTI-PURPOSE

Hunter Bigge (Los Gatos) Jr.
Brett Conine (El Modena, Orange) Sr.
Tanner Dodson (Jesuit, Carmichael) Sr.
Hunter Greene (Notre Dame, Sherman Oaks) Soph.
Andrew Hansen (Centennial, Bakersfield) Sr.
Ty Madrigal (Elk Grove) Sr.

THIRD TEAM
(Seniors only; 50-player limit; Large Schools Only)
(Viewed as equivalent to Medium Schools, Small Schools)

Catchers
Brandt Citta (Leland, San Jose)
Aiden Finch (Los Gatos)
Ian Navarro (Lynwood)
Jon Schafer (Clovis West, Fresno)

Pitchers
Ethan Abrams (La Costa Canyon, Carlsbad)
Kris Bubic (Archbishop Mitty, San Jose)
Preston Mott (Clovis)
Chase Wheatcraft (Saugus)
Thomas Wilson (Burroughs, Burbank)
Jonas Wyatt (Quartz Hill)

Infield
Brandon Becker (Cajon, San Bernardino)
Devin Davis (Valencia)
Ross Dodds (Buchanan, Clovis)
Kai Gomez (San Fernando)
Jake Hirabayashi (Notre Dame, Sherman Oaks)
Mitch Hayes (Great Oak, Temecula)
Tyler Janitz (Gregori, Modesto)
Tommy Jew (Dougherty Valley, San Ramon)
Ethan Lopez (La Mirada)
David Maldonado (Temecula Valley, Temecula)
Cooper Moore (Huntington Beach)
Tyler Odekirk (Mission Viejo)
Josh Olivarria (Salinas)
Mike Ricupito (Monte Vista, Danville)
R.J. Romo (Glendora)
Sam Shaikin (Chatsworth)
Will Tribucher (San Clemente)
Charles Zaloumis (Monte Vista, Danville)

Outfield
Gage Canning (Ramona)
Ruben Cardenas (Alemany, Mission Hills)
Chris Ceballos (Chino Hills)
Jake Foscalina (Livermore)
Steven Kwan (Washington, Fremont)
Alex McKenna (Alemany, Mission Hills)
Tyson Solis (Oak Ridge, El Dorado Hills)

Multi-Purpose
Jordan Bocko (Capistrano Valley, Mission Viejo)
Logan Denholm (Oak Ridge, El Dorado Hills)
Evan Fagundes (St. Mary’s, Stockton)
Robert Gaylord (Wilcox, Santa Clara)
Gabriel Gonsalves (Cabrillo, Long Beach)
Kyle Hatton (Norco)
Jacob Hughey (Millikan, Long Beach)
Ben Kaser (Cleveland, Reseda)
Jack Moberg (Vista Murrieta, Murrieta)
Kyle Molnar (Aliso Niguel, Aliso Viejo)
Lee Mutter (Helix, La Mesa)
J.T. Navarro (Fountain Valley)
Josh Rios (Long Beach Poly)
Kyle Robeniol (Los Osos, Rancho Cucamonga)
Victor Sanchez (Glenn, Norwalk)

Mark Tennis is the co-founder and publisher of CalHiSports.com. He can be reached at markjtennis@gmail.com. Don’t forget to follow Mark on the Cal-Hi Sports Twitter handle: @CalHiSports