JOURNAL SPORTS

Nine local underclass baseball players have been selected to play in the 2024 Louisiana Baseball Coaches Association Underclassmen Games at Lou St. Amant Field on the campus of UL-Monroe, June 3-5.

Four teams comprising the top 100 players to graduate in 2025, 2026 and 2027 will play against each other the first week in June.

Local players selected to the North team include Jaxon Bentzler and Nate Cervantes of Northwood, Kade Bryant and Griffin Sibley from Benton, Carter Reynolds and Andrew Sharp of Captain Shreve; Cole Snell and Abel Thetford from Parkway and Evangel’s Landon Martin.

Bentzler, Sibley, Thetford and Sharp were among 10 that were selected from the area to play in last year’s event.