Texas offensive and defensive high school baseball stats leaders

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The baseball season has wrapped up in Texas. MaxPreps looks at how the top two players in the state finished in 10 offensive and defensive categories.

Batting average
Aaron Walters, Sr., Center Point, .662
Walters finished with a ridiculous .662 average. In eight games this season, he hit 1.000. He was only held hitless in three of 25 games this season and had 15 multi-hit contests.

Charlee Robertson, Jr., Azle Christian (Azle), .660
Robertson went 35-for-53 this season. He collected at least two hits in every game.



Home runs
Aaron Walters, Sr., Center Point, 13
Walters was held homer-less in the last eight games of the season, but still ripped 13 dingers. It helped that he hit six home runs in the first seven games.

Stacey Bailey, Jr., Kerens, 12
Bailey homered in 11 of 28 games this season. He had a career game of two home runs and seven RBIs in a 23-1 victory over Neches on March 28.

Slugging percentage
Aaron Walters, Sr., Center Point, 1.507
In eight games this season, Walters had a slugging percentage of 2.000 or more. Walters collected 30 extra-base hits, including 13 doubles.

Stacey Bailey, Jr., Kerens, 1.366
Bailey started the season with a 1.654 slugging percentage in the first 14 games. He didn't drop off too much the end of the way to finish second in the state.

RBI
Stacey Bailey, Jr., Kerens, 59
Bailey had 16 games with two or more RBIs. He had five games driving in four or more runs. He had a stretch of 32 RBIs in nine games at the start of the season.

Evan Sack, Sr., Emery/Weiner (Houston), 50
Sack ended up with 16 games of having multiple RBIs. He knocked in a season-high six runs with a home run in a 16-3 win over St. John XXIII on March 8.



Tanner Broadfoot, Sr., Clyde, 50
Broadfoot produced four or more RBIs in four games this season. In 23 of 31 games, Broadfoot knocked in a run.

Runs
Garrett Kilcrease, Jr., Kerens, 56
Kilcrease was a terror on the base paths this season. He scored two or more runs in 22 of 26 games. He came across to score four times in a 17-3 victory over Cross Roads on March 21.

Leighton Tindell, Sr., Riesel, 52
Tindell scored at least once in 27 of 30 games this year. In nine games, he came across the plate three or more times.

Brooks Embry, Sr., Riesel, 52
Embry made a dynamic duo with Leighton Tindell all season. Embry scored in all but four games and came home eight times in the final three games of the year.

On-base percentage
Brooks Embry, Sr., Riesel, .770
Embry had 43 hits and 37 walks, reaching base seven times combined on errors and fielder's choices. He got on base at least once every game this season.

Aaron Walters, Sr., Center Point, .757
To go with 47 hits this season, Walters had 31 walks to bump up his on-base percentage. He was held off the base paths just one game all year.



Stolen bases
Matt Matous, Jr., Blooming Grove, 53
Matous was an amazing 53-for-56 stealing bases this season. He had at least one stolen base in 25 of 26 games and had four or more steals in six games.

Charlee Robertson, Jr., Azle Christian (Azle), 52
Robertson swiped 52 of the 53 bases he attempted. He was 8-for-8 in a 20-1 victory over Cornerstone Christian Academy on March 28.

Earned run average
Dawson Merryman, Jr., Greenwood (Midland), 0.23
Merryman allowed just one earned run in 30.2 innings this season. He also had 54 strikeouts and gave up just 16 hits.

Matt Nicholas, Sr., New Braunfels Christian Academy (New Braunfels), 0.23
Nicholas was dominant on the bump, giving up one earned run in 30.1 innings of work. He fanned 68 hitters of his 93 outs this season.

Strikeouts
Phillip Sikes, Sr., Paris, 137
Sikes worked 67.1 innings and struck out over two batters per inning. He had nine outings with 11 or more strikeouts.

Kobe Ammons, Jr., Post, 133
In 13 of his 19 appearances, Ammons fanned seven or more hitters. He had a season-high 13 strikeouts in a five inning, 10-0 win over Morton over April 10.



Wins
Kel Bordwine, Sr., Cypress Ranch (Houston), 12
Bordwine finished his season 12-0 with eight complete games and five shutouts. He surrendered just four earned runs in 74.1 innings.

Chase Piper, Sr., Hendrickson (Pflugerville), 12
Piper was 12-2 this year in seven starts. He had two complete games in his final three starts.