The hits keep coming for Fowler High's championship baseball team of 2007 -- this time in the 47th annual Hot Stove Banquet on Feb. 9 at the Fresno Convention Center.
It will be there that Fowler senior Josh Poytress will be recognized as the event's Male Player of the Year, and the Redcats as the Team of the Year. The annual event benefits Fresno Grizzlies charities.
Bullard senior softball standout Christine Thomsen will be honored as Female Player of the Year, John Hollett Jr. of Selma's baseball program as Coach of the Year, and ex-Fresno State baseball coach Bob Bennett will receive the Al Radka Award.
Headline speakers will be major league Hall of Famers Harmon Killebrew, an ex-player, and Bay Area broadcaster Lon Simmons.
Poytress, as a junior pitcher/outfielder and Bee Player of the Year, went 9-1 with a 1.57 ERA and hit .411 while leading Fowler to a 33-2 record, the Central Section Division V title and Cal-Hi Sports' No. 1 state ranking in D-V.
Thomsen, as a junior first baseman, hit .495, knocked in 43 runs and made Cal-Hi's All-State Underclassmen team.
Hollett had brain surgery in October 2006, lost his mother, Barbara, to a heart attack two months later and then, in spring 2007, guided fourth-seeded Selma to a 25-7-1 record and the section D-III title.
Tickets: (559) 320-HITS.
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