COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – In high school baseball, Coldwater senior Randall Linton has been selected Most Valuable Player of this season’s Cardinal team which held its annual awards banquet this week. Coldwater finished in first place this season in the new Interstate 8 Conference and the Cardinals were District Champions for the fourth straight year helping them tie the school record with 32 wins this year.
Also honored with team awards were Brayton Rzepka-Most Valuable Pitcher; Randall Linton-Most Valuable Defensive Player; Brendan Spangler-Leading Hitter; Marty Johnston-Mr. Hustle; and Bryce Barringer-Most Improved Player. This year’s team had 5 players honored with Academic Awards. Addison Duda, Kollin Wark, Jordan Butler, Brendan Spangler and Morgan Sims each made the Academic All Conference team. Sims, Spangler, and Duda were Academic All District and Spangler was Academic All State.
Selected to the baseball All-Conference first team were Linton and Spangler along with Nick Shaw and Brandon Lewis. Rzepka and Sims were honorable mention. And named to the All-District team were Spangler, Linton, Butler, Lewis and Shaw.
Also in high school sports, the Michigan High School Athletic Association each year requires a so-called “Summer Dead Period”, a time of 7 full consecutive calendar days after school is out in June and after a school’s participation in MHSAA tournaments is finished. Each school sets its own seven day dead period and for Coldwater high school this summer it runs from tomorrow, July 3 through July 10.
For the week beginning on Friday, there is to be no involvement or contact by the school or coach with students in grades 7 to 12 in any MHSAA tournament sports. It is a zero coach-player period at school or elsewhere with no school or coach conducted open gyms, conditioning or weight lifting programs on school premises or sponsored by the school or coach at other facilities.
