Baseball
Roncalli star named Gatorade POY
Nick Schnell, a senior outfielder at Roncalli, was named the Gatorade Indiana Baseball Player of the Year on Tuesday. Schnell is the first Rebel to earn that honor.
Projected as a first- or second-round pick in the upcoming Major League Baseball draft, Schnell is batting .541 with 15 home runs for the Rebels (25-5), who have won 15 straight heading into Saturday’s regional.
Miscellany
Mid-State releases all-sports standings
Franklin was second overall and Whiteland third in the Mid-State Conference’s final all-sports standings, which were released Tuesday morning.
The Grizzly Cubs were second to Plainfield in both the boys and girls standings after winning league titles in volleyball, boys cross country, boys and girls swimming and boys and girls tennis.
Whiteland was buoyed by outright conference titles in baseball and girls basketball as well as a share of the girls soccer championship. Greenwood, which was first in boys tennis in the fall, was sixth in the overall standings.
The league will be adding an eighth school, Perry Meridian, beginning in August.
