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Gatorade named its Players of the Year in baseball, boys' soccer and softball: Pleasant Grove's Payton Henry repeated as the two-time honoree in baseball, Maple Mountain's Aidan Dayton earned the designation in boys' soccer and Juab's Taylei Williams was awarded the title in softball.
Henry, a senior catcher, batted .519 for the Vikings, with seven home runs and 31 RBI, while leading his team to the Class 5A first round.
Dayton, a junior defender and midfielder, helped transform the Golden Eagles' defense into one of the top units in the state as the team captured the first state championship in boys' soccer in school history. He finished with eight goals and 14 assists.
Williams, also a junior, compiled a 17-3 record on the mound, with a paltry 0.77 ERA for the runner-up Wasps. She struck out 233 batters in 119 innings, while batting .641, with 12 home runs, 14 doubles, 65 RBI and a 1.462 slugging percentage.
While the awards signal the end of the athletic year, the prep season hasn't concluded just yet, with four separate all-star baseball games scheduled to be played at Lindquist Field, the home of the Ogden Raptors, over the course of the next three days.
The underclassman game consisting of players from Classes 5A-3A (North vs. South) is set for Thursday at 7 p.m.; the Class 3A game (North vs. South) is Friday at 8 p.m.; the Class 4A game (North vs. South) is Saturday at noon, and the Class 5A game (North vs. South) follows afterward at 3:30 p.m.
Here are the players participating in the games:
Class 5A North
Clearfield's Chase Stratton; P/OF
Hunter's Connor Applegate; OF
Northridge's Josh Brown; P/INF
Northridge's Brogan Poll; P/INF
Viewmont's Braden Hirsch; INF
Davis' Jeremy Smooth; C
Davis' Will Ostler; INF
West's Connor Abrath; INF
Roy's Brennan Patterson; P/INF
Syracuse's Chase Bauerle; P/INF
Mountain Crest's Braxton Elwood; OF
Mountain Crest's Ptolian Takis; P
Mountain Crest's Spenser Triplett; INF
Layton's Tad Anderson; C
Layton's Porter McNeely; P/INF
Class 5A South
Herriman's Collin Wilson; OF/P
Pleasant Grove's Payton Henry; C/P
Pleasant Grove's Derek Wall; P/OF
West Jordan's Jacob Stauffer; P
Bingham's Sean Keating; INF/P
Jordan's Drew Lisk; INF
Riverton's Skyler Davis; C
American Fork's Mick Madsen; INF/P
Brighton's CJ Bertram; P/INF
Cottonwood's Oliver Dunn; INF
Cottonwood's Wil Jensen; INF/P
Cottonwood's Ben Atkinson; OF/INF
Copper Hills' Trevor Hoffman; P/OF
Taylorsville's Luke Jacketta; C
Class 4A North
Woods Cross' Alex Johnson' INF/P
Woods Cross' Brandon Wagstaff; C/OF
Woods Cross' Brady Childs; OF/P
Ogden's AJ Anderson; C
Bountiful's TJ Benard; OF/INF
Murray's Colton Harris; P/INF
Murray's Zach Collins; C
Bonneville's Parker Hall; OF/P
Cyprus' Adrian Naranjo; P/INF
Box Elder's Bryant Tingey; INF/C
Kearns' Aaron Bass; OF/P
Hillcrest's Skyler Ochs; INF
Judge's Nick Cline; OF/P
East's Jack Shipman; INF/P
Class 4A South
Uintah's Karter Pope; P/INF
Wasatch's Josh Darrow; INF
Maple Mountain's Jaren Hall; OF
Maple Mountain's Kade Poulsen; INF
Salem Hills' Riley Pierce; P/OF
Salem Hills' Cooper Smith; OF
Salem Hills' Tanner Hamblin; P/INF
Timpanogos' Tanner Evans; INF
Orem's Paxton Schultz; P/INF
Orem's Jake Herman; C
Timpview's AJ Bollinger; INF/P
Mountain View's Caleb Moore; OF/P
Spanish Fork's Riley Daniels; P/INF
Skyline's Wilson Battle; OF/P
Highland's Nathan Roderick; OF
Class 3A North
Stansbury's Jordan Donadio; P/OF
Stansbury's Logan Gates; INF
Stansbury's Garrett Petersen; INF
Park City's Jake Slusher; INF/P
Grantsville's Kyle Peterson; P/INF
Grantville's Riley Jensen; P/INF
Bear River's Triston Merritt; INF
Bear River's Kelton Christensen; OF/P
Bear River's Nic Rasmussen; P
Ben Lomond's Mason Ingram; INF/OF
Logan's Hoppy Booth, UTL
Logan's Austin Barton; UTL
Juan Diego's Josh Glenn; C
Juan Diego's Connor McNulty; INF
Morgan's Makade Garner; INF
Class 3A South
North Sanpete's Trent Seely; P/OF
Dixie's Trevor Connell; C
Dixie's Chance Vowell; INF
Pine View's Brooks Barney; UTL
Pine View's Logan Lafemina; INF
Carbon's Cole Fossat; INF/P
Carbon's Anthony Maclean; P/INF
Desert Hills' Brayson Hurdsman; P/INF
Canyon View's Payton Higgins; OF/P
Canyon View's Jackson Vasi; OF/P
Canyon View's Xavier Stoker; P/INF
Richfield's Mason Torgersen; P/INF
Cedar's Trey Esplin; INF
Union's Jackson Riedlinger; P/INF
North Underclassman
Roy's Jack Hulce; C
Fremont's Jestin Schickel; P/INF
Northridge's Ethan Udy; OF
Northridge's Jake Porter; P/OF
Granger's Garrett Curtis; OF
Layton's Stockton Goddard; P/INF
Davis' Dom Fuller; INF/P
East's Daniel Cordova; C/P/OF
Bonneville's Kyler Bush; P/OF
Woods Cross' Zach Burrows; P/OF
Skyline's Nick Scott; OF/P
Murray's Drew Staley; P/INF
Murray's Pierce Kettering; OF
Park City's Zack Luna; P
Bear River's Jake Dahle; INF
Bear River's Wyatt Sorensen; INF
Juan Diego's Kolbee Gagon; OF
South Underclassman
West Jordan's Davis Misrasi; INF/OF
Cottonwood's Christopher Rowan; C
Cottonwood's Hunter Heugly; INF/P
Lone Peak's Payton Freeman; OF/P
Lone Peak's Payton Barney; INF/P
American Fork's Trell Morse; P/INF
Alta's Mckay Dowdell; P/INF
Timpanogos' Derik Eaquinto; P/OF
Salem Hills' Kaden Stewart; P
Spanish Fork's Tanner Argyle; INF
Maple Mountain's Tyson Ellis; P/INF
Dixie's Tyson Fisher; C/P
Cedar's Drake Lewis; C
Canyon View's Cadyn Clark; INF/P
Carbon's Cody Lowe; INF
Trevor Phibbs
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