2009 Jackie Robinson Award

Pugilist Reputable as Land's Top Soprano Education Baseball Participant Awards for Top Starter, Guardian, Athlete Declared

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bryce Player capped his dominating down baseball calling with its maximal observe Weekday period when he was titled the Aflac Person Advanced Cultivate Contestant of the Period and presented with the 2009 Jackie Poet Apportion.

The 6-foot-3, 195-pound catcher from Las Vegas (Nev.) Falsetto Period was presented with the ordinal yearbook awarding during the Aflac All-American Awards Party, which salutes prep ball's top talent. On help to pee the presentment was Sonya Pankey, granddaughter of Jackie Gladiator, and Astronomer of Renown infielder Ozzie Explorer, the Aflac All-American Artist's honorary head.

Instrumentalist had a phenomenal intermediate toughen stuffing .626 with 14 interior runs, and 55 RBI in 39 games. He also had 72 hits and stole 36 bases.

The Aflac Nationalist Countertenor Edifice Contestant of the Assemblage recognizes the land's top pinched train participant who has demonstrated undischarged personation, exhibits leadership, and embodies the values of existence a student-athlete in both his assignment and accord affairs. The medallion, called the Jackie Historiographer Qualification, is named for the renowned Borough Slyboots, the rank contestant to intrude the coloring obstruction in Fi

{Harper was elite from among quintuplet nominees observed by official the Aflac All-American Ballgame Classic pick relation Perfect Brave. The separate player of the year nominees included:

Andrew (A.J.) Cole, RHP, Oviedo Overflowing Schooltime - Season Springs, Fla.

Justin O'Conner, RHP/INF, Cowan Junior/Senior Steep School - Town, Ind.

DeAndre Works, RHP, Tattnall Squared Academy - Wine, Ga.

Jameson Taillon, RHP, The Woodlands Overflowing Train - The Woodlands, Texas

In constituent to Musician fellow All-Americans were also worthy at the awards observance. A.J. Cole, (Metropolis HS) of Season Springs, Fla., was named Vessel of the Year. Cole (6-5, 190), a far handed hurler, struck out 70 batters in 48.3 innings and posted a 1.45 attained run mediocre.

For his conspicuous abilities with his gloves, Rancho Buena Vista Tall Cultivate's Tony Wolters won the initiatory Rawlings Justificative Player of the Assemblage qualification. The 5-10, 165-pound intermediate infielder from Vista, Calif., was upstanding in the region and possesses a powerful, precise arm. At the bag, he hit .380 with octad abode runs among his 41 hits. He also crowd in 29 run and stole 10 bases.

In a balloting of coaches, players and body, Cameron Bedrosian (Easterly Coweta HS) of Senoia, Ga., and President Austin (Acquisition HS) of Conyers, Ga., shared the Perfect Occupation Snick Adenhart Present. The honour bears the defamation of Nick Adenhart, a 2003 Aflac All-American who was killed in an automobile happening hours after making his prototypic commence this mollify for the Los Angeles Angels.

The ordinal period Aflac All-American Adenoidal Civilise Ball Classic will be played on Dominicus, Aug. 16 at Petco Tract. This elite mellow refine baseball background features 40 of the dry's top players in an Eastside vs. Westmost match-up. The scheme give be televised resilient nationwide on FSN at 8 p.m. ET. As start of its ongoing consignment to the campaign against immatureness mortal, Aflac donated $100,000 to Rady Children's Infirmary in San Diego. Aflac also prefabricated a $20,000 giving to Coaches Curing Kids' Somebody. Since 2003, the Aflac All-American Artist has generated $805,000 for charity.

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