All-Big South Conference baseball teams announced

With the high school baseball season now over, players from the Big South Conference were recognized for their excellence throughout the season with all-conference honors.

The Big South teams were split into big and small schools. Making up the big schools were Marshall, St. Peter, New Ulm, Belle Plaine, Tri-City United, Waseca and Worthington.

Leading the way on the black all-conference team from big schools is Marshall with five selections, followed by New Ulm with four, St. Peter with three, Belle Plaine and Tri-City United with two each and then Waseca and Worthington with one each.

The small schools consist of Fairmont, Luverne, St. James, Pipestone, Windom, Redwood Valley, Jackson County Central and Blue Earth Area. Marshall won the conference title over Fairmont.

The gold all-conference team featured Luverne with four selections, Fairmont, Pipestone and St. James with three, Windom with two and BEA, JCC and Redwood Valley with one each.

Here is the full list of all-conference teams with honorable mentions.

Marshall: Chase Alcorn (11), Andrew Stelter (12), Josh Kraft (12), Liam Kruse (12), Owen Kesteloot (12)

New Ulm: Zach Hubbard (11), Tanner Backer (10), Dirk Haynes (11), Levi Hopp (10)

St. Peter: Ryan Moelter (10), Levi Wachal (11), Alex Korir (10)

Belle Plaine: Anthony Elbert (12), Treyden Hiles (11)

Tri-City United: Parker O’Malley (10), Nate Blaschko (11)

Waseca: Owen Honstad (10)

Worthington: Chase Byrne (12)

HONORABLE MENTION

Waylon Friendshuh and Logan Hoen of Belle Plaine; Cooper Mensink of Marshall; Cohen Domeier and Kyle Albrecht of New Ulm; Owen Potts of St. Peter; Brendan Frederick of TCU; Deven Parpart of Waseca; Dawson Svalland of Worthington.

Luverne: Carter Sehr (12), Blake Sauer (11), Jaxon Lais (11), Layke Miller (12)

Fairmont: Josh Soelter (10), Joey Crissinger (10), Joseph Hackett (11)

Pipestone: Weston Reinhard (12), Landon Quist (12), Nohel Vivanco (12)

St. James: John Boelke (11), Reggie Blom (11), Max Westman (11)

Windom: Quintin Tietz (12), Hayden Tietz (11)

BEA: Peyton O’Hara (12)

JCC: Gage Johnson (10)

Redwood Valley: Ethan Louwagie (12)

HONORABLE MENTION

Joe Long, Luke Haefner and Mason Bicknase of Fairmont; Alex Schlosser and Maddox Domagala of Luverne; Trevor Chaulsett and Zayne Zollner of Pipestone; Andrew Willemssen of Redwood Valley; Wyatt Haler of St. James