The West Central Tribune released its All-Area Baseball Team for 2022. In this year’s All-Area team, 11 schools are represented. Among the 18 players selected — nine on the first team and nine on the second — are 12 seniors. KMS, Paynesville and MACCRAY lead the way with three sections each.

One of the youngest members of the All-Area Baseball Team is Minnewaska sophomore Dylan Alexander who made quite the impact for the 13-9 Lakers.

He was named the team’s most outstanding offensive player after hitting for a .488 average, a .577 on-base percentage and a 1.228 OPS. Seeing both time at catcher and in the outfield, Alexander had a 1.000 fielding percentage with three outfield assists. He was named All-West Central Conference.

“Dylan is an exceptional all-around player that has an incredible knowledge of the game,” said Minnewaska head coach Joe Alexander. “Having him in the middle of our lineup and behind the plate calling a game certainly is a contributing factor to our program’s success and promises to be fun to watch for the next couple years.”

This information was taken from Joe Brown’s article in the West Central Tribune