10/17/23

THE YAVAPAI COLLEGE BASEBALL TEAM ANNOUNCED ITS NEW PLAYERS FOR THE 2024 SEASON, AND THREE OF THEM HAIL FROM OUR LOCAL HIGH SCHOOLS. TWO ARE FORMER BRADSHAW MOUNTAIN PLAYERS. ELIAS AVILA HIT .481 DURING HIS SENIOR SEASON AND MADE THE ALL-CONFERENCE FIRST TEAM. ANOTHER EX-BEAR, DALTON IRWIN, SPENT FOUR YEARS ON VARSITY AND MADE THE ALL-REGION SECOND TEAM HIS SENIOR SEASON. ALSO JOINING THE ROUGHRIDERS IS PAUL FERNOW, WHO PLAYED FOR PRESCOTT HIGH SCHOOL. 

SOME OF THE OTHER NEW PLAYERS FOR YAVAPAI INCLUDE CATCHER LUKE MOELLER FROM SCOTTSDALE, WHO WAS A TWO-TIME ALL-CONFERENCE SELECTION AT DESERT MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOL WHO TRANSFERRED FROM THE U-OF-A; RYAN PRUITT FROM TROPHY CLUB, TEXAS, WHO IS A TRANSFER FROM WESTERN TEXAS COLLEGE AND LED ALL JUCO PLAYERS IN THE NATION IN TRIPLES AND STOLEN BASES LAST YEAR. NELSON KOEING IS A PITCHER FROM PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA WHO HAD A 0.00 E-R-A IN 14 POST-SEASON INNINGS.