With the 2018 spring season right around the corner, PBR Indiana is eagerly anticipating bringing the best high school baseball coverage throughout the entire state.

Leading up to the season we will be releasing team previews for teams across the state, leading into our Preseason All-State Teams and Preseason Team Rankings.

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2018 HS TEAM PREVIEW: Alexandria-Monroe Tigers

Head Coach: Jeff Closser

Class: 2A
2017 Record: 13-17
Conference (2017 Record):  Central Indiana
Returning Starters/Pitchers: 4/4

2018 Team Strengths:

• Pitching
• Defense
• Team Speed

Top Players: 

• Matthew Etherington RHP/1b 2018: team captain, 3- year starter 1st team, all conf (.303 BA 6 2B 1 3B 1 HR 15 RBI 14 runs 6 SB) (4-5 57 inn 2.21 ERA 54 K 15 BB) 
• Trey Stokes RHP/3B 2019: Honorable Mention conf, 2- year starter (.359 BA 12 2b 2 HR 15 RBI 23 Runs 15 SB) (37inn 3-5 4.16 ERA 29 K 20 BB) 
• Brennan Morehead RHP/MIF, 2020: captain (.278 4 2B 13 RBI 15 Runs 10 SB) (2-1 26 inn 5.65 ERA 20 K 10 BB) 
• Ryan Metz, LHP/OF, 2020: (.356 10 2B 1 3B 1 HR 19 RBI 20 Runs 18 SB) (0-2 15 inn 9.07 ERA 16 K 12 BB) 
• Nick Williams, RHP, 2020

2020-2021's: 

• Drew Kiefer, Utility, 2020
• Clay Grunkemeyer, C, 2020
• Calvin Sherwood,SS, 2021
• Sam Voegele, C/P/OF, 2021
• Trey Peters, MIF/P, 2021

Outlook: Alexandria returns four key position players along with four arms this spring.  Senior team captain Matthew Etherington will be a key component both on the mound and at the plate. They are overall fairly young, but have a talented sophomore class. Look for the Tigers to improve on their 13-17 record from last year and make some noise come postseason play.