High school baseball: North Ridgeville, Elyria Catholic, Keystone among leaders in All

The 2023 All-Lorain County baseball teams have been announced, and there are a number of familiar faces filling out the lists.

In Division I, the first team distribution was fairly similar to a year ago, with North Ridgeville leading the pack with four players, followed by three each for Amherst, Midview and Avon Lake. Avon and Lorain each put one player on the All-County first team.

Amherst's Martin Polonkay is the Division I Player of the Year. North Ridgeville's Matt Ponting took home top coaching honors after breaking a 41-year conference title drought and advancing to the school's first district appearance since at least 1979, winning 19 games in the process with a senior-heavy group that won 20 games the year before.

Aside from earning Division I Player of the Year honors for the county, Polonkay was listed as a first-team pitcher. He led the team in several offensive categories while serving as part of a three-headed monster in Amherst's rotation with Chase Mayer and Cam Gendics.

In Division II, Elyria Catholic's Levi Ellis and Firelands’ Cory Ransom split Player of the Year honors. The Panthers lapped the field with five first-team players, followed by three for Vermilion and two each for Firelands and Brookside.

Elyria Catholic's Bruce Lisicky earned Coach of the Year after taking the Panthers to another district final and picking up his 200th career win.

Looking at Divisions III and IV, Keystone's Brock Miller and Bert Fitzgerald won Player and Coach of the year honors, respectively. Miller was one of three first-teamers for the combined Division III and IV list, with Open Door and Wellington also posting three players each. Clearview landed two players with Columbia and Oberlin each getting one nod each.

Miller was one of the county leaders in strikeouts, but was also a hit machine with All-Ohioan Jack Sivec in the Wildcats’ lineup.

Fitzgerald's squad made a big jump from last year, with the Wildcats falling just shy of their first district appearance since 2019 in a walk-off at Independence in a razor-close contest.

Player of the year: Martin Polonkay, Amherst

Coach of the year: Matt Ponting, North Ridgeville

Adam Bright, North Ridgeville; Jake Boynar, North Ridgeville; Zak Jockel, Midview; Chase Mayer, Amherst; Martin Polonkay, Amherst; Cam Gendics, Amherst; Jack Lion, Avon Lake; Hayden Blosser, Avon Lake; Cole Cartwright, Avon Lake; Tracy Hough, Lorain; Spencer Mueller, Midview; Mateo Lopez; Midview; Michael Scully, Avon; Gavin Padgett, North Ridgeville; Gannon Padgett, North Ridgeville

Jacob Schliesser, Amherst; Ian Cain, Avon; Davis Ocepek, Avon; Brenton Dill; Avon; Gavin Ehrhardt, Avon; Brody Papay, Avon; Isaac Soloff, Avon Lake; CJ Gurule, Avon Lake; Scotty Edgell, Elyria; Isaac Ramos, Elyria; Nic Chernitsky, Elyria; Anthony Lorenzo, Lorain; Matthew Roesel, Lorain; Sam Calcut, Midview; Henry Calcut; Midview; Carson Iezzi, North Ridgeville;

Coach of the Year: Bruce Lisicky, Elyria Catholic

Players of the Year: Levi Ellis, Elyria Catholic and Cory Ransom, Firelands

Cory Ransom, Firelands; Tony Poyle, Firelands; Levi Ellis, Elyria Catholic; Taylor Belza, Elyria Catholic; Anthony Hutter, Elyria Catholic; Easton Weber, Brookside; Nick Arra, Brookside; Riley Kearns, Vermilion; Dominic Calanni, Elyria Catholic; LJ Hurlbut, Elyria Catholic; Cody Schwark, Vermilion; Logan Peterson, Vermilion

Silas Skvor, Firelands; Devin Radford, Brookside; Kyle Fairbanks, Elyria Catholic; Christian Begalla, Elyria Catholic; Conner Rogers, Firelands; AJ Gerber, Vermilion

Player of the Year: Brock Miller, Keystone

Coach of the Year: Bert Fitzgerald, Keystone

Jack Sivec, Keystone; Brock Miller, Keystone; Ayden Cruz, Clearview; CJ Polen, Wellington; Riley Reyna, Wellington; John Kinter, Wellington; Tyler Reaser, Open Door; Justin Yarber Jr., Oberlin; Josh Moore, Open Door; Izaiah Amarise, Open Door; Jacob Sanders, Columbia; Anthony Ruiz, Clearview; Victor Vilchez, Keystone

Julian Anderson, Oberlin; Josiah Feliciano, Clearview; Carter Kalamasz, Columbia; Kody Hall, Columbia; Jack Senghas, Keystone; Drew Walter, Oberlin; Luke Doss, Open Door; Trey Moore, Wellington

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