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Tournaments  | Story  | 10/31/2022

Inaugural HS All State Select Titles Earned

Blake Dowson     
Photo: North Region (Perfect Game)
North Region Wins Inaugural 2023-24 Grad High School All State Select Championship

The North Region traveled down to Texas over the weekend and took care of the competition at the first-of-its-kind High School All State Select Championship, beating the West in the title game by a final score of 10-6.

An event that pits regions of the country against each other (the West, North, South, Texas, Southeast, and East were represented), Perfect Game scouts from each of those regions were put in charge of compiling rosters for their region, with prospects then accepting invites to compete for bragging rights.



On this weekend those rights belong to the North, thanks in large part to the bat of Carson Raether.

Raether, an uncommitted left-handed hitting catcher in the 2024 out of Goodrich, Michigan, jumped all over a curveball in the top of the fourth inning, breaking a 5-5 tie with a game-busting grand slam. The two regions traded a pair of runs after the slam, and the North ran away with the 10-6 final.



It was Raether putting pressure on the West defense that plated the first two runs of the game, when he hit a grounder to second base that wasn’t handled, allowing Jordan Lewis and Anthony Alvarez to score in the top of the first inning.

Andrew Frausto got one back for the West Region in the bottom of the frame with a home run, but the North answered with a two-run home run of their own from Sebastian Jaimes to take a 4-1 lead.

That lead quickly disappeared in the bottom of the second inning, though. West’s Drake Threadgill did his job as the leadoff man, putting two men on base as he grinded through 15 pitches – as a showcase-style event, Threadgill worked two four-ball counts but was able to stay in the box and continue his at-bat. Those two runners, Drew Rayment and Miles Ghossein, both came in to score in the inning, as did Carlos Jeremiah Vargas and Tanner Wiggins, the final three all due to Alex Vernon’s bases-clearing double to give the West a 5-4 lead.

One run in the top of the third off an RBI single from Lewis tied the game at 5-all before Raether delivered the big blow in the fourth.

It was also Lewis who finished up the game on the mound for the North, tossing a scoreless fifth inning with a strikeout thrown in to complete the first High School All State Select Championship. He and Jayden Lopez combined to allow just four hits from the West.

South Claims 2025-26 High School All State Select Championship In Title Game Rout
The South Region jumped all over the North in the championship game of the 2025-26 Grad High School All State Select Championship, racing out to a 8-0 lead after three innings, which would hold as the final thanks to a combined no-hitter from the pitching staff.

Matthew Manis, a left-hander from Houston, got the start on the mound for the South. He handled the first three innings, hitless, striking out five in the process. Caldwell McFaddin, a two-way athlete from Magnolia, Texas, handled the final two innings with three punchouts of his own.

The rest was taken care of by the offense.

Jeffrey Claycomb got the South on the scoreboard with a solo home run in the bottom of the first, turning around a first-pitch fastball and sending it out. Blake Beheler worked a pair of four-ball counts in his at-bat just after Claycomb, and brought in both of his set runners with a double to left field on the 13th pitch of his plate appearance. Beheler would come around to score on a triple from Kayson Cunningham, and the South had a 4-0 lead after one frame.

A wild pitch plated the fifth run of the game for the South in the second inning, which led into a three-run third.

Landon Graham worked a four-ball count and then doubled to start the inning and place runners on second and third. Jessie Hernandez followed with a single to score Manis, the set runner. William Hill brought Graham in with a sac fly to right field, and Joshua Hunter did the same to score Hernandez to push the score to 8-0.

Graham ended the day with two hits, both doubles, as did Beheler, who had one extra-base hit and two RBI. Claycomb was the lone South prospect who scored two runs in the contest.

 
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