N.C. All State Baseball Teams

Here are the N.C. Baseball Coaches Association all state teams:

4A

1.  Trevor Pence            New Bern                  POY            Mideastern

2.  Matthew Parrish      West Johnson            POY         Greater Neuse

3.  Curt Britt            Scotland                  POY            Southeastern

4.  Wood Myers            Jordan                  POY            PAC-6

5.  Will Gilbert            Green Hope            POY            Tri-Nine

6.  Vance Vizciano      Wakefield                  POY            Cap Eight

7.  Tommy Marshall      Southern Alamance      POY            Metro 7

8.  Matt Orth            Southwest Guilford      POY            Piedmont Triad

9.  Corey Randall      Davie County            POY          Central Piedmont

10. Trent Thornton      Ardrey Kell            POY            Southwestern

11. Mike Herbert      Providence            POY            Southwestern

12. Ryan Ryder            North Mecklenberg      POY            I-Meck

13. Matt Profitt            Watauga                  POY            Northwestern

14. Michael Downing      Terry Sanford            POY            Mid-South

15. Alex Rayburn      Durham Jordan          

16. Brad Stone            Ardrey Kell

17. Landon Lassiter      North Davidson

18. Chance Shepard      Ashley

19. Keaton Haack      NW Guilford

20. Jackson Campana      Providence

21. Garrett Suggs      Fuquay-Varina

22. Corey Kimber      Dudley

23. Jimmy Boyd            Middle Creek

24. Ty Buttrey            Providence

25. Dylan Ward            East Forsyth

26. Matt Eddy            Pinecrest

27. Ryan Foster            Davie County

28. Matt Tenuta            Apex

29. Brandon Gragilla      Hough

30. Johnny Piedmonte Hough

4A Player of the Year: Curt Britt - Scotland County

3A

1.   Harry Ferrguson            Currituck            POY      Northeastern Coastal

2.   Davis Kilpatrick            DH Conley            POY      Coastal

3.   Jacob Page                  Hunt                  POY      Big East

4.   Chastin Radford             North Lenoir      POY      Eastern Carolina

5.   Max Shrock                  Card Gibbons      POY      Carolina

6.   Nick Collins                  Union Pines      POY      Cape Fear

7.   Scott Ellington            Williams            POY      Mid State

8.   Jailyn Davis                  NE Guilford      POY      Mid Piedmont

9.   Sean Grant                  West Iredell      POY      North Piedmont

10. Corey Seager            NW Cabarrus      POY      South Piedmont

11. Alex Bostic            Weddington      POY      Southern Carolina

12. Tyler Chadwick          Marvin Ridge      POY     Southern Carolina

13. Eddie Hull                  Charlotte Cath      POY      Mega 7

14. Nick Triplett                  Crest                  POY      Big South

15. Davis Hanvey            Hickory            POY      Northwestern

16. Dustin Greene            Burns            POY      South Mountain Ath

17. Colby Fox                  No Buncombe      POY      Mountain Ath

18. Rob Howard                  Tuscola            POY      WNC

19. Markel Jones            West Brunswick

20. Brody Koener            JM Robinson

21. Reily Hovis                  Forest View

22. Nick Monroe            Eastern Alamance    

23. Nick Debo                  Orange

24. DC Arendas                  Northern Guilford

25. Jeremy Schellhorn      Weddington

26. Zach Mozingo            Eastern Wayne

27. Kevin Wise                  Southern Wayne

3A Player of the Year: Corey Seager - Northwest Cabarrus

2A

1.   Trent Hansley      Topsail                  POY      East Central

2.   Chad Briley            No Pitt                  POY      Eastern Plains

3.   Clay Lockamon      Roanoke Rapids            POY      Northern Carolina

4.   Matt Fuhr            South Granville            POY      Carolina 12

5.   Matt Lowry            No Brunswick            POY      Waccamaw

6.   Alex Britt            Fairmont                  POY      3 Rivers

7.   Christian Snyder      Providence Grove      POY      Mid-State

8.   Dylan Richardson      Randleman            POY       Pac-6

9.   Tyler Stroup            East Davidson            POY       Central Carolina

10. Jake Walser            West Davidson            POY      Central Carolina

11. Colby Barnette      Piedmont                  POY      Rocky River

12. Addison Parrish      East Lincoln          POY     Southern Piedmont

13. Hunter Harvey      Bandys                  POY       Catawba Valley

14. Blaine Durham      West Stokes            POY      Northwest

15. Stefan Susi            Wilkes Central            POY       Mountain Valley

16. Roberto Taft      Polk                        POY       Western Highlands

17. Hunter Donaldson No Henderson            POY      WNC Athletic

18. Hunter Smith      Surry Central

19. Cameron Tekker      Cuthbertson

20. John Mangum      Cuthbertson

21. Ridge Beheler      East Rutherford

22. Lucas Owens      East Rutherford

23. Bryant Battle      North Pitt

24. Chance DuCharme First Flight

25. Joel Booker            Polk                      

26. Andrew Webster      Northwood                            

27. Zack Cooper            South Granville

28. Cody Trogdon      Randleman

29. Easton Welch      Randleman

30. Hunter Smith      Whiteville

31. Nathan Hood       Whiteville

32. Kyland Tyler            Whiteville

2A Player of the Year: Matt Lowry - North Brunswick

1A

1.   Terrence Jackson            Creswell                  POY            Tideland

2. Austin Freese                  Perquimans            POY            Four Rivers

3. Jonathan Hayes            Gates County          POY            Tar-Roanoke

4. Austin Benson            Southwest Onslow      POY          Coastal Plains

5. Matt Sugg                  Ayden-Grifton            POY            Carolina

6. Chad Sykes                  Voyager Academy       POY            Carolina 12

7. Stephen Wallace            South Stanley            POY            Yadkin Valley

8. Zach Wall                  Hayesville               POY            Smoky Mtn.

9. Jacob Rhodes                  Hiwassee Dam            POY            Smoky Mtn.

10. Jackson Reister            Mitchell               POY            Western Highland

11. Russ Weiker                  South Stanly          

12 Grayson Short            South Stanly

13. Jordan Starnes            South Stanly

14. Samuel Linn                  Hendersonville

15. J. P. Lisk                  South Stanly

16. Will Sheppard            West Wilkes

17. Hunter Hamilton            West Montgomery

18. Cody McKenzie            West Montgomery

19. Loy Stone                  Voyager Academy

20. Brett Godwin            Midway

21. Riley Baggett            Midway

22. Brandon Marsh            Northside

23. Hunter Early                  Manteo

24. J. P. Padgett                  Dixon

25. Matt Rouse                  Dixon

26. Will Gurganus            Riverside

27. Tyler Woodhouse            Camden

1A Player of the Year: Stephen Wallace - South Stanly

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Butler High QB Riley Ferguson commits to Tenn.

Butler High quarterback Riley Ferguson, a 6-foot-3, 195-pound rising senior, has committed to Tennessee, his mother, Diana, told the Observer.

Ferguson led Butler to the 2010 N.C. 4A state championship. Butler lost to eventual 2011 champion Greensboro Page in the quarterfinals last season.

Ferguson had offers from schools like Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Louisville, LSU, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, Notre Dame, South Florida and Virginia Tech.

ESPN ranks him the No. 199 player in the nation among its top 300 for the class of 2013. ESPN ranks him No. 12 at his position nationally.

Porter Ridge's Lexi Davis named NC Gatorade softball player of the year

Gatorade News Release

CHICAGO (June 6, 2012) — In its 27th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with ESPNHS, today announced Lexi Davis of Porter Ridge High School as its 2011-12 Gatorade North Carolina Softball Player of the Year.  Davis is the first Gatorade Softball Player of the Year to be chosen from Porter Ridge High School.

The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field, distinguishes Davis as North Carolina’s best high school softball player.  Now a finalist for the prestigious Gatorade National Softball Player of the Year award announced in June, Davis joins an elite alumni association of past state award-winners in 12 sports, including Alicia Hollowell (2000-01, Fairfield HS, Calif.), Derek Jeter (1991-92, Kalamazoo HS, Mich.), Candace Parker (2001-02, Naperville Central HS, Ill.), Abby Wambach (1997-98, Our Lady of Mercy, N.Y.), Mark Sanchez (2004-05, Mission Viejo HS, Calif.), Angela Tincher (2002-03, James River HS, Va.) and Kenzie Fowler (2006-07, Canyon del Oro HS, Ariz.).

The 6-foot-1 senior right-handed pitcher led the Pirates (33-1) to the Class 4A state championship this past season and a No. 2 ranking nationally in the ESPNHS Fab 50. Davis posted a 33-1 record with a 0.23 ERA in the circle, and batted .450  with eight home runs and 42 RBI at the plate. She’s a three-time Conference Player of the Year and three-time First Team All-State selection.

Davis has maintained a 3.89 GPA in the classroom. An elementary school tutor, she has volunteered locally on behalf of the Special Olympics and youth softball programs.

“Lexi Davis has been a dominant softball player for the last four years,” said Don Mather, head coach at Parkwood High. “This season she’s just outdone herself, in both hitting and pitching.”

Davis has signed a National Letter of Intent to play softball on scholarship at Auburn University this fall.

The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states that sanction high school football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, baseball, softball, and boys and girls track & field, and awards one National Player of the Year in each sport. The selection process is administered by ESPNHS and the Gatorade high school sports leadership team, which work with top sport-specific experts and a media advisory board of accomplished, veteran prep sports journalists to determine the state winners in each sport.

Davis joins recent Gatorade North Carolina Softball Players of the Year Chelsea Wilkinson (2009-10 & 2010-11, Alexander Central High School), Tisha Mahon (2008-09, North Davidson) and Chelsea Leonard (2007-08, Central Davidson) among the state’s list of former award winners.

Olympic's Devon Henderson invited to Blue-Grey national combine

Olympic High football player Devon Henderson, a 6-foot-2, 256-pound rising senior, has been invited to the Blue-Grey National Super Combine.

Henderson was selected based on his performance at a regional event and will now compete with 200  prospects from 36 states at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio June 23.

The combine also serves as a pool to select a North and South squad to compete in the Blue-Grey National All-Star game, Jan. 12, 2013 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla. The combine prospects will comprise approximately 75 percent of the all-star teams.

Last season, Henderson was an all-conference defensive end and honorable mention all-conference middle linebacker while playing for the St. Jude Fighting Christians, a first-year independent school team comprised primarily of home-school and private school students from Mecklenburg and Union Counties.

Henderson finished the 2011 season with 82 tackles, two sacks and four tackles for a loss.