Ryan Tester | www.IndianaRBI.com

BY STEVE KRAH

http://www.IndianaRBI.com

IHSAA baseball practice is here and the Northeast Indiana Baseball Association has announced its Dick Crumback/NEIBA High School Player of the Year watch list for 2024.

An email was sent out to the baseball coaches from Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Noble, Huntington, Wells and Whitley counties. These are the counties that the NEIBA covers when choosing their Hall of Fame members. Each coach was asked to nominate any player(s) that he feels could be in the running for such an honor.

The watch list features 36 players. The list will be narrowed down in early May and finalists will be announced.

The Dick Crumback/NEIBA High School Player of the Year will be honored May 20 to coincide with the start of the IHSAA state tournament.

The Player of the Year will be honored at a June 4 Fort Wayne TinCaps game and at the June 9 Hall of Fame banquet.

Past winners of the award include Grant Besser (South Adams) in 2019, Carter Mathison (Homestead) in 2021, Dalton Wasson (Heritage) in 2022 and Parker Smith (DeKalb) in 2023.

The organization has honored local baseball players, personnel and ambassadors since 1961.

For more information, contact Matt Brumbaugh at kbrum6920@aol.com, Steve Devine at sdevo24@aol.com or Brett Windmiller at brett.windmiller@nacs.k.in.us.

DICK CRUMBACK/NEIBA

HIGH SCHOOL PLAYER OF THE YEAR

2024

Adams Central (Coach Josh Foster)

Sr. Trevor Currie

Sr. Keegan Bluhm

Sr. Dakota Perry

Sr. Ryan Tester

Sr. Jack Hamilton

Bishop Dwenger (Coach Jason Garrett)

Sr. Brayton Thomas

Sr. Michael Maddy