Two Buckaroos selected to Northern 3A all-league baseball team

Young, Domire earn honorable mention status

Two Buckaroos selected to Northern 3A all-league baseball team

Two Buckaroos selected to Northern 3A all-league baseball team

Two members of the Lowry High School baseball team were named to the Northern 3A all-league teams. The all-league teams are selected by the league’s nine coaches.

Senior Kyle Young and sophomore Brendan Domire were named to the honorable mention team for the Buckaroos.

Young had a batting average of .354, with 28 hits. He scored 16 runs and had 20 RBI to go with six doubles, five triples and a home run.

Domire led the Buckaroos with a .376 average and had a team-high 30 hits. He scored 23 runs and had six RBI.

Churchill County’s Alex Mendez was named the Player of the Year and Dayton’s Mike Burrows was the Coach of the Year.

The Northern 3A first team was comprised of pitchers Trevor Burrows (Dayton), Julian Loera (Elko) and Hayden Strasdin.

The infield included Alex Wall (catcher, Elko), Matt Ferreira (first base, Spring Creek), Jack Swisher (second base, Churchill County), Jesse Schmidt (shortstop, Dayton) and Matt Shanks (third base, Spring Creek).

The outfield included Jon Jund (Spring Creek), Justin Schmidt (Dayton) and Garrett Harley (South Tahoe) and the DH was Spring Creek’s Sheldon Wilkinson and Sparks’ Matt Longland was named as the utility player.

The all-league second team was made of up pitchers Matt Mills (Spring Creek), Zach Burns (Fernley) and Isaac Von Schoff.

The infield was led by Dylan Baker (catcher, Dayton), Cameron Backherms (first base, Elko), Drake Howe (second base, Fernley), Dakota Larson (shortstop, Spring Creek) and Payton Gill (third base, South Tahoe).

Mitch Owsley (Spring Creek), Cooper Jones (Elko) and Josh Kirk (Fernley) made up the outfield and Churchill County’s Edgar Alvarado and Truckee’s Connor Bullion were the DH and utility players, respectively.

The honorable mention team included Churchill County’s Brock Uptain; Dayton’s Jake Madison and Zach Woitas; Elko’s Kaleb Martinez, Gavin Byington and Colby Tiner; Fernley’s Kyle Heimbruch, Ryan Harer and Brandon Hlade; South Tahoe’s Chris Pfister and Kevin Lehmann; Sparks’ Tanner Crow, Elijah Shelton and Niko Budija; Spring Creek’s Jason Painter, Caden Jangard and Thomas Anderson and Truckee’s Jayden Commendatore and Marcus Bellon.

The all-state, first-team selections from the North included Mendez, Burrows, Jesse Schmidt, Jund, Shanks and Longland.

The second team was comprised of Loera, Wall, Strasdin, Swisher, Harley, Ferreira and Wilkinson.