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Hudson coach Chuck Schilling is the 2011 Northeast Ohio Conference River Division Baseball Coach of the Year. The Explorers finished 23-6 (8-2 in the NOC River).

Sixty-three Northeast Ohio Conference baseball players representing 18 high schools were named to the 2011 All-NOC team.

A Coach of the Year and a Player of the Year were named for each of the three divisions (Valley, River, and Lake).

VALLEY DIVISION

Forrest Perron (Strongsville), Connor Ryan (Strongsville), Nate Langhals (Strongsville), Austin Legate (Strongsville), Anthony Maurer (Strongsville), Nolan Schultz (Strongsville), Matt Ellenbest (Medina), Rutger Luebke (Medina), Scott Sency (Medina), Alex Thielman (Medina), Austin Adams (North Royalton), Mark Hren (North Royalton), Sam Lacinski (North Royalton), Andrew Rossman (North Royalton), Justin Arthur (Brunswick), Kyle Michalik (Brunswick), Zach Gresch (Brunswick), Jordan McDonald (Elyria), Chris Emerson (Elyria), Grant Graves (Lakewood), Alex Antel (Lakewood)

PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Forrest Perron (Strongsville)

COACH OF THE YEAR: Josh Sorge (Strongsville)

RIVER DIVISION

Jimmy Benchek (Hudson), Matt Ramsay (Hudson), Nate Shaw (Hudson), Mike Lewandowski (Hudson), Zac Edwards (Hudson), Will Stribrny (Hudson), Michael Timm (Twinsburg), Scott Effross (Twinsburg), Frank Shaffer (Twinsburg), Alex Havens (Twinsburg), Matt Iosue (Mayfield), Rob Razzante (Mayfield), Christian Verde (Mayfield), Anthony Alioto (Mayfield), Ryan Damschroder (Stow), Brian Clark (Stow), Jason McPeek (Stow), Matthew Smoral (Solon), Ryan Schwenke (Solon), Alex Overfield (Cuyahoga Falls), Drew Gardner (Cuyahoga Falls)

PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Jimmy Benchek (Hudson)

COACH OF THE YEAR: Chuck Schilling (Hudson)

LAKE DIVISION

Chris Hawks (Nordonia), Anthony Ciocca (Nordonia), Dylan Danko (Nordonia), Zach Lewis (Nordonia), Tyler Alders (Nordonia), Billy Smith (Nordonia), Jake Ripma (Brush), Trent Mosley (Brush), Collin Angelotti (Brush), Matt Wittels (Brush), Austin Deutsch (Parma), Patrick Eedy (Parma), Kevin Merrell (Parma), Austin Howard (Parma), Jared Mlady (Normandy), Kraig Boyer (Normandy), Ron Stofan (Normandy), Justin Webb (Valley Forge), Mike Czinger (Valley Forge), Mike Paluscsak (Garfield Heights), Dillon Dalton (Garfield Heights)

PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Chris Hawks (Nordonia)

COACH OF THE YEAR: Scott Koenig (Nordonia)