Post-Season Honors

Congratulations to Stephen Williams who was a second-team all-CIF selection in Divison IV.

For the complete list, go to the California Baseball Coaches Association web site here.

Senior Day, 2008

The Sharks will honor three graduating seniors before tomorrow’s game against St. Bonaventure. Jacob Perrin, Nate Schoenbrun, and Stephen Williams have a combined 688 plate appearances in Malibu High School varsity baseball games. Collectively, they have scored 152 runs and driven in another 117 runs.

Schoenbrun will be remembered as a fleet-footed and sure-handed center fielder in the mold of two players who wore #11 before him–Jace Dispenza and Daniel Williams. He also provided solid starting pitching as a junior and senior. His 3.50 ERA in 2007 was the best on the Sharks’ pitching staff. On March 3, 2007, Schoenbrun pitched a complete game at Marshall High, picking up a 6-2 win.

Perrin has been the mainstay of the Malibu High pitching staff for the past three years, starting 18 of the team’s 70 games since the beginning of the 2006 season. He has a career record to this point of 11 wins and 7 losses with 3 saves. Two weeks ago, Perrin pitched the Sharks’ first complete-game shutout in over three years, a 5-0 victory over Oaks Christian. Offensively, Perrin has a .314 career batting average. He has scored 53 runs over the past three season.

Williams has played in 83 varsity games since 2005. He has a career .408 batting average with 13 home runs and 75 RBIs. His career slugging percentage is .718 and his career on-base percentage is .540. He has been hit by pitch 20 times–or once in every 14 plate appearances.

Behind all of the numbers that Schoenbrun, Perrin, and Williams have put up in Malibu High varsity baseball games have been countless pitches and at bats in American Legion games, fall ball games, scout league games, and off-season tournament games over the past four years. Thank you, gentlemen, for all of your hard work and for all of your contributions to the success of the Sharks. It’s been a pleasure to watch you play.

Dodger Elite

Senior catcher Stephen Williams will be playing in the Dodger Elite games this weekend at Dodger Stadium. Williams will play on a squad managed by Dodger scout and former major-league pitcher Chuck Crim. The first game in the four-team showcase will be on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. Crim's team will play again on Sunday at either 9:00 a.m. or noon depending on the outcome of Saturday's game.

2007 MVPs

At the post-season banquet at Duke's on Wednesday night, Stephen Williams was named the most valuable player of the 2007 Malibu High varsity baseball team and Jesse Conrad was named JV MVP.

Williams led the team in batting average (.411), on-base percentage (.576), slugging percentage (.786), homeruns (5), and RBIs (18). His OPS (combined on-base percentage and slugging percentage) was tops in the Tri Valley League.

Tri Valley All-League Team

Senior Jared Weinstock and junior Stephen Williams were first-team Tri Valley All-League selections for 2007. Sophomore Sean Conrad earned second-team honors and senior Greg Kernodle was honorable mention.

Weinstock batted .344 with 2 homeruns and 15 RBIs. Williams had a .411 batting average with 5 homeruns and 18 RBIs. Conrad led the Sharks in hits (24) and doubles (7) and had a .304 batting average. Kernodle batted .254 with 5 doubles and 4 stolen bases.

Oak Park placed four players on the first team. St. Bonaventure and Oaks Christian had three first-team honorees each.

Junior Casey Serna of St. Bonaventure was named the Tri Valley League MVP.

Tri Valley League All-Academic Team

Nine members of the Malibu High baseball program were named to the 2007 Tri Valley League All-Academic Team. Congratulations to Dalton Abbott, Jesse Conrad, Jace Dispenza, Cody Freeman, Tony Gwyn, Andrew Kramer, Jacob Perrin, Jared Weinstock, and Stephen Williams for combining academic and athletic excellence.

The Sharks placed more players on the All-Academic Team than any other school in the league.

Brooks!

Congratulations to Brooks Fitch who was a second-team all-CIF selection. For a complete list of the all-CIF teams in each division, go here.

More Post-Season Honors

Last week Brooks Fitch and Stephen Williams were named to the All-Ventura County team. Fitch and Michael Gwyn, both of whom were first-team All-Frontier League selections, were also nominated to play in the senior all-star game at Moorpark College on June 11.

Post-Season Honors

Six Malibu High players have earned All-Frontier League honors. Named to the first team were seniors Brooks Fitch and Michael Gwyn.

Brooks Fitch

Michael Gwyn

Second-team honorees were sophomores Jacob Perrin and Stephen Williams.

Jacob Perrin

Stephen Williams

Greg Kernodle and Jace Dispenza, both juniors, were named all-league honorable mention.

Greg Kernodle

Jace Dispenza

Congratulations!

All-CIF

The All-CIF Southern Section baseball selections were released yesterday. Daniel Williams was a first-team selection for Division V. Congratulations, DWil!

(For a complete list in all divisions, go to the CIF Southern Section web site here, click on "Student Awards" and select "2005 Baseball."

The Baseball Banquet

Sixty players, coaches, and family members attended the annual Malibu High Baseball banquet last night at Spruzzo's. Coach Paul Gallo awarded varsity letters to sixteen players and acknowledged the contributions of the team's ten seniors by giving all of them the Coaches' Award.

Players and coaches assembled for a group photo on the patio at the end of the evening.

In Adam Paulson's absence, Jason Cavnar recognized the players on the JV squad. Jacob Perrin was named Most Valuable Player and Sloan Campi was named Most Improved Player. Paul Gallo recognized Jason Puklus and Daniel Williams with the Captains' Award. Daniel Williams was named Most Valuable Player. All-League certificates were awarded to Brooks Fitch, Philip Johnson, Jason Puklus, Geoff Roth, Jamie Van Soelen, Brett Weinstock, and Daniel Williams. Brett Weinstock was also recognized as a member of the Frontier League All-Academic Team.