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The Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League is proud to announce its 2022 post season awards.

 

For the second consecutive season, the major awards were divided into both the North and South Divisions.

 

The selection breakdown for the All-GLSCL Post Season Teams is for each position awarding a first and second-team honoree with all other voter getters being named honorable mention.

 

All post season selections and awards are determined by the 13 coaching staffs with each team getting one vote.

 

Gary Henschen Player of the Year - North Division

Reece Longstaff - Michigan Monarchs - Arizona Western College

 

Reece Longstaff was elected a starter on the GLSCL North Division all-star team. Longstaff led the North Division champion Michigan Monarchs with a .325 batting average. He was a GLSCL top five finisher in both hits (41) and runs scored (29).

 

The “Wonder From Down Under” hails from Melbourne, Australia. He just finished his first collegiate season in America at Arizona Western College in Yuma, Arizona. Longstaff played in 59 games driving in 35 RBIs and stealing 36 bases for the Matadors.

 

 

Gary Henschen Player of the Year - South Division

Kyle Ratliff - Southern Ohio Copperheads - SIU Edwardsville

 

Kyle Ratliff lead the GLSCL with 11 home runs and was second with 34 RBIs. Ratliff was just two home runs shy of tying the GLSCL single season home run record. He set the Copperheads season home record previously co-held by former GLSCL Player of the Year winner Blaine Crim.

 

Ratliff has committed to play next season at SIU Edwardsville of the Ohio Valley Conference. The Wyoming, Michigan native just finished a stellar two-year career at Lake Michigan College.

 

 

Lou Laslo Pitcher of the Year - North Division

Carter Doorn - Lima Locos - Purdue University

 

Carter Doorn finished the season leading the GLSCL with a 0.88 earned run average. Doorn also ended the season third in the league in strikeouts with 47

 

Doorn just completed his first college season getting limited action at Purdue University. He looks to get an expanded role for the Boilermakers after a successful summer season with he GLSCL.

 

 

Lou Laslo Pitcher of the Year - South Division

Garrett DeCLue - Xenia Scouts - University of the Cumberlands 

 

Garrett DeClue accomplished something that had never been done in the GLSCL when he threw his second no-hitter of the season in his final start on July 18.

 

DeClue has a 4-2 record with the Scouts finishing fourth in the league in earned run average (2.14) and tied for fifth in strikeouts with 41.

 

 

Ron Miller Top Player Prospect - North Division

Reece Longstaff - Michigan Monarchs - Arizona Western College

 

 

Ron Miller Top Player Prospect - South Division

Kyle Ratliff - Southern Ohio Copperheads - SIU Edwardsville

 

 

Tony Lucadella Top Pitcher Prospect - North Division

Carter Doorn - Lima Locos - Purdue University

 

 

Tony Lucadella Top Pitcher Prospect - South Division

Chase Hopewell - Hamilton Joes - University of Cincinnati

 

Chase Hopewell wins this award for the second season in a row. Hopewell struck 48 innings in just 29 and 1/3 innings of work coming out to nearly two strikeout per innings pitched.

 

Hopewell was chosen by the GLSCL selection committee to be the starting pitcher for the South Division in the GSLCL All-Star game. He pitched one perfect inning retiring all three batters that he faced.

 

 

Joe Carbone GLSCL Manager of the Year

Ben Komonosky - Michigan Monarchs

 

Ben Komonosky won the GLSCL Manager of the Year award after leading the Michigan Monarchs to the North Division championship with the league's best record. The Monarchs were third in the GLSCL in both team batting average and team earned run average under Komonasky’s tutelage.

 

 

 

Komonosky is an assistant coach at Frontier CC where his head coach is former GLSCL All-Star Jimmy Brenneman. Komonasky played collegiately at the University of Evansville.

 

 

 

Click here to see all of the 2022 GLSCL Post Season Awards winners and All-GLSCL Post Season teams.

 

 

ABOUT THE GREAT LAKES SUMMER COLLEGIATE LEAGUE 

The Great Lakes Summer Collegiate, founded in 1987, is a wood-bat league that is certified by the NCAA and is partially funded by Major League Baseball. The league currently consists of 13 active franchises in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana boasting several players that have earned service time in major league baseball.