Western Ohio Athletic Conference Final Standings and All-League Baseball Selections for 2023

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Arcanum coach Randy Baker was named Coach of the Year in the WOAC and Bradford Tucker Miller was Player of the Year in the conference. (Dale Barger Photo)

Here is the Western Ohio Athletic conference final Baseball Standings and All-League selections for 2023.

Arcanum coach Randy Baker whose team won the WOAC championship with a 10-1 league record was named WOAC baseball Coach of the Year.  It was his 9th overall league title in his coaching career.

Tucker Miller was named WOAC Player of the Year.  He led the league in strikeouts with 98 with 6 victories and a .99 era on the mound. He hit .466 had 41 hits with 8 doubles, 6 triples and 2 homeruns and scored 42 runs and had 32 stolen bases.

Here is the complete list of All-Conference player selections.

First Team
Jaxson Crist, Regan Crist – Arcanum; Tucker Miller, Landon Wills – Bradford; Kole Huffman, Carson Sexton – Dixie; Ben Browning – National Trail; Carson Knupp, Hudson Montgomery – Newton; Grady Hutchinson, Gavin Schmidt – Preble Shawnee; Braylon Keener – Tri-County North; Jace Lipps – Tri-Village and Cais Kingsley, Gage Miller – Twin Valley South.

Second Team
Trevor Hemmerich, Keegen Weiss – Ansonia; Bryson Sharp, Carson Tegtmeyer – Arcanum; Landon Monnin – Bradford; Cade Peters, Cason Yount – Franklin Monroe; Seth Kiser – Mississinawa Valley; Chase Ruebush, Jamison Watts – National Trail; Ty Schauer – Newton; Zane Adams – Preble Shawnee; Logan Call, C.J. Osborne – Tri-Village and Kasey Blair – Twin Valley South.

Special Mention
Nick Burns – Ansonia; Aiden Psczulkoski – Arcanum; Owen Canan – Bradford; JR Bemis – Dixie; Ty Riffle – Franklin Monroe; Dylan Wehrkamp – Mississinawa Valley; Cooper Smith – National Trail; Rhett Koffer – Newton; Cooper Roell – Preble Shawnee; Parker Overcash – Tri-County North; Cameron Kimmel – Tri-Village and Braden Burkett – Twin Valley South.

The Arcanum Trojans were the outright winners this year in baseball going 10-1 in the conference and is currently 20-5 overall.

Here are the final league standings.

Arcanum 10-1
Newton 9-2
Bradford 7-4
Preble Shawnee 7-4
Tri-Village 7-4
Ansonia 6-5
Twin Valley South 5-6
Dixie 5-6
National Trail 4-7
Tri-County North 3-8
Franklin Monroe 3-8
Mississinawa Valley 0-11

The #3 Arcanum Trojans will be playing in the OHSAA DIII District Semi-Finals on Monday at 5pm where they will take on #4 Brookville.  Also still playing is #14 Preble Shawnee playing at #1 Greenview.

In DIV baseball #3 Twin Valley South will host #4 Troy Christian, #1 Fort Loramie host #4 Bradford and #2 Russia host #3 Newton all games to be play 5:00pm

Good luck to the teams still playing.

Arcanum Baseball won the 2023 league title with a 10-1 record in the WOAC. (Dale Barger Photo)