Skyview’s Hamilton is Class 4A baseball state player of the year
Skyview senior Ian Hamilton has been voted the Class 4A baseball player of the year by the Washington State Baseball Coaches Association.
Hamilton went 8-1 with a 1.17 ERA and 78 strikeouts in 60 innings for the Storm this season. He also batted .417 in the month of May as the Storm marched to the first state championship in school history.
He pitched five shutout innings in a state semifinal win over Kentridge, then went 3 for 4 with a double and a run scored in the 8-5 win over South Kitsap in the championship game.
Hamilton will play baseball for Washington State.
Skyview’s coach Eric Estes was selected the co-coach of the year along with Todd McDougall of Olympia.
Also earning spots on the Class 4A all-state first team were Skyview’s Braydon Maney and Heritage’s Dakota Clevidence. Union’s Seaver Whalen, Battle Ground’s Ian Humphrey and Heritage’s Alex Smith made the second team.
Columbia River’s Michael McCann and Mountain View’s J.T. Kaul made the Class 3A first team. Mountain View’s Dakody Clemmer and River’s Oscar Golberg were on the second team.
Ridgefield’s Joe Siegal was on the 2A all-state second team. Woodland’s Hunter Huddleston made the 1A second team.
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