Manhattan High baseball was well represented in postseason honors following another state tournament season, with nine Indians earning All-Centennial League recognition and three players receiving Kansas Association of Baseball Coaches All-State honors.<\/p>\n
The Indians finished 21-5, captured a regional championship and advanced to the Class 6A state tournament for the second consecutive season.<\/p>\n
Senior pitcher Brayson Gnirk and the Newton brothers, Asher and Sawyer, headlined the league selections as first-team All-Centennial League picks.<\/p>\n
Gnirk also earned second-team All-State honors after serving as Manhattan\u2019s ace throughout the season. The senior logged 64 innings across 11 starts, finishing 9-2 with 64 strikeouts, 10 walks and a 1.75 ERA. At the plate, he added a .253 batting average, a .412 on-base percentage and a team-high 19 walks.<\/p>\n
Sophomore leadoff hitter Asher Newton joined Gnirk on the All-State second team after producing one of the top offensive seasons in the league. Asher Newton hit .390 with a .519 on-base percentage and a 1.190 OPS. He led the Indians in triples (six), home runs (two), RBI (28), runs scored (28) and stolen bases (16).<\/p>\n
Senior shortstop Sawyer Newton rounded out Manhattan\u2019s first-team all-league selections. He batted .326 with a .406 on-base percentage and a .941 OPS while scoring 27 runs and stealing 14 bases.<\/p>\n
Three more Indians earned second-team All-Centennial League recognition in Mclain Aslin, Carter Goodpasture and Jackson Goos.<\/p>\n
Goodpasture also received honorable mention All-State honors after compiling a 7-0 record with a 2.35 ERA and 39 strikeouts across 38 2\/3 innings in nine starts.<\/p>\n
Goos hit .338 with a .500 on-base percentage and a .993 OPS. He led the Indians with six doubles while driving in 22 runs. Aslin finished the season batting .339 with a .494 on-base percentage and a .978 OPS, adding 19 RBI and 26 runs scored.<\/p>\n
Riland Boyer, Easton Duff and Greyson Wassenberg were named honorable mention All-Centennial League selections.<\/p>\n
Boyer posted a .411 batting average while recording a .542 on-base percentage and 1.042 OPS. He also led Manhattan with 20 singles. Duff made a major impact on the mound, finishing 4-1 with a 1.93 ERA over 36 1\/3 innings. Behind the plate, Wassenberg compiled a .403 on-base percentage and handled one of the league\u2019s top pitching staffs.<\/p>\n
Manhattan head coach Don Hess was selected as the Centennial League Co-Coach of the Year after guiding the Indians to another 20-win season. Hess also reached a career milestone during the spring, earning his 500th career victory before finishing the year with a 513-151 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan High baseball was well represented in postseason honors following another state tournament season, with nine Indians earning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[9737,993,56926,56929,995,64495,448,64504,996,994,998,56921,997,56922,75,84,83,9,24,63,2688],"class_list":["post-248826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-ball-and-bat-games","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-games","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-batting-order-baseball","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-earned-run-average","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-world-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}