BELLVILLE — Luke Schlosser hit it out of the park again.
Clear Fork’s senior slugger and left-handed ace, Schlosser was selected the Mid-Ohio Athletic Conference Player of the Year for the second consecutive year.
He is the first two-time winner of the award since Ontario’s Avery Fisher doubled up in 2018 and 2019.
The Colts (26-5) reached the regional tournament for the first time since 2017, thanks largely to Schlosser. He was 8-1 with 92 strikeouts and a 1.16 earned run average on the mound and batted .390 with seven doubles and 19 runs batted in.
Schlosser was joined on the All-MOAC first team by teammate Jay Jackson, Galion’s Braxton Prosser and Max Albert, Ontario’s Carter Walters and Carter Weaver and Shelby’s Nic Eyster.
Other first-teamers were Highland’s Hayden Kline, Zach Church and Kort Sears and Marion Harding’s Nathan Cunningham.
Clear Fork’s Nate Lind, Garrett Hotz and Chandler Ball were second-team picks, along with Galion’s Kael Longwell and Shelby’s Alex Bruskotter. The other second-teamers were Highland’s Jayden Collins and Jace Brooks, Marion Harding’s Raymond Scott-Harbolt and Austin Allen, Pleasant’s Trent Caudill and River Valley’s Hayden Kanagy.
Honorable-mention selections included Clear Fork’s Kasey Swank, Galion’s Hunter Miniard, Highland’s Gavin Wiggand, Marion Harding’s Gavyn Baumgartner, Ontario’s James Mahon, Pleasant’s J.T. Snively, River Valley’s Alden Gray and Shelby’s Maverick Noel.
Highland won the MOAC title with an 11-3 league mark. Shelby and Clear Fork tied for second at 10-4 while Ontario (9-5) was fourth.
Shelby’s Jon Amicone was selected the MOAC Coach of the Year.