2019 Class 4 State Tournament Preview

June 4, 2019
PBR Staff
VA/DC Coverage

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We are into the final week of the 2019 High School baseball season in Virginia and DC, with the VHSL State Tournaments wrapping up the season this week with Championship Saturday. To get you ready for this week's action, we will post a preview for each classification, continuing here with Class 4. In each preview, we will quickly highlight each team's season and our staff will make its picks.

Check out the PBR VA/DC podcast this week for more in-depth analysis of our picks.

State Tournament Previews

Class 1
Class 2
Class 3

VHSL Class 4 Teams

School	No. 2 Liberty Christian Bulldogs
Record	24-1
2019	Region 4D Champions, Seminole District Champions
Key Players	Jacob Williams (Middle Tennessee), Quade Tomlin (Liberty), Christian Gordon (Liberty), Pell Collins (Liberty), Emmanuel Johnson (Liberty)

School	Kettle Run Cougars
Record	15-9
2019	Northwestern District Champions
Key Players	Joe Vogatsky (James Madison), Zach Ewald (CNU), Michael Aldrich (Mary Baldwin)

School	Lafayette Rams
Record	16-7
2019	Region 4A Champions
Key Players	Geo Rivera (Old Dominion), Drew Ramos, Ozzie Torres

School	Midlothian Trojans
Record	15-7
2019	Region 4B Runners-up
Key Players	Camdton Furman (Randolph-Macon), Carter Lovasz, Christian Chambers (James Madison)

School	No. 15 Riverside Rams
Record	16-7
2019	Region 4C Champions, Dulles District Champions
Key Players	Carson Swank (Yale), Sajon Belser (Col of Charleston), Wyatt Shenkman, John Helteban

School	Salem (Salem) Spartans
Record	18-5
2019	Region 4D Runners-up
Key Players	Parker Stallard (Virginia Tech), Zian Honaker, Hunter Tensen, Jared Fetrow, Caleb Lingenfelter

School	No. 7 Hanover Hawks
Record	19-2
2019	Region 4B Champions
Key Players	Jack Goleski, Eric Anderson (Louisburg JC)

School	Great Bridge Wildcats
Record	18-6
2019	Region 4A Runners-up
Key Players	Landon Higgerson (Radford), Parker Russell, Alex Ziemke

PBR VA/DC Staff Picks

	Champion	Dark Horse
Jerry Shank	Hanover	Riverside
John Nolan	Liberty Christian	Kettle Run
Jason Burton	Liberty Christian	Salem