Watertown, Aberdeen baseball players receive all-state, all-region honors

The postseason has arrived for South Dakota's high school baseball players and golfers. Here are some recent awards and results: High School Baseball Awards Four players from the Watertown Arrows Post 17 and another from the Aberdeen Smittys have earned postseason honors from the South Dakota High School Baseball Association. Senior pitcher Jackson McClemans and senior outfielder Markus Pitkin both have been named to the SDHSBA Class A All-State team for the Arrows (13-7), who open play on Friday, May 22, in the state tourney at Sioux Falls.

Junior third baseman Jackson Post 17 also earned all-state honors for Aberdeen. McClemans, a right-handed thrower, made the all-state first team by compiling a 4-2 record with one save, 35 strikeouts in 31 2/3 innings, and a 0. 67 earned-run average to date this spring.

Pitkin made the second team by batting . 533 (32-for-60) so far this spring with a . 587 on-base percentage and 1.

487 OPS (on-base plus slugging). He tallied nine doubles, five triples, one home, 19 runs and 20 RBIs. Post, also named to the second team, batted .