Rosters for the 2016 West Coast League All-Star Game hosted this summer by the Cowlitz Black Bears were announced by league president Donnie Marbut this morning.

The WCL’s annual showcase is set for Tuesday, July 19 at David Story Field in Longview, Washington. First pitch is set for 7:05 pm. As in past years, a Home Run Derby will be held prior to the game.

For the first time, an area high school player will join the field of WCL sluggers. Last night, the Black Bears held a qualifying Home Run Derby where they invited local area high school talent to slug it out for a coveted spot in the WCL All-Star Game HR Derby. Kelso High School’s Zach Threlfall was the winner.

The North team will be managed by Bryan Donohue of Kelowna and the South by Cowlitz skipper Grady Tweit.

This year’s North and South rosters feature 14 Pac-12 prospects.

NORTH

1B – Jake Veith of Gonzaga (Bellingham Bells)
2B – Griffin Andreychuk of Seattle (Victoria HarbourCats)
SS – Andru Cardenas of Chico State (Bellingham Bells)
3B – Danny Casals of Maine (Bellingham Bells)
C – Willie MacIver of Washington (Walla Walla Sweets)
C – Brendt Citta of San Jose City College (Kelowna Falcons)
UTL – Nick Nyquist of Gonzaga (Walla Walla Sweets)
UTL – Evan Douglas of Lewis-Clark State (Wenatchee AppleSox)
OF – Ben Polshuk of Cal Poly (Victoria HarbourCats)
OF – Jarron Silva of UCLA (Victoria HarbourCats)
OF – Shane Hanon of Edmonds CC (Bellingham Bells)
OF – Michael Toglia of UCLA (Wenatchee AppleSox)
P – Austin Dondanville of Cal Poly (Victoria HarbourCats)
P – Bobby Ay of Cal Poly (Walla Walla Sweets)
P – Jared Horn of Cal (Bellingham Bells)
P – Will McAffer of South Dakota State (Victoria HarbourCats)
P – Easton Lucas of Pepperdine (Walla Walla Sweets)
P – Joey Matulovich of Cal (Bellingham Bells)
P – Matt Young of Nevada-Reno (Wenatchee AppleSox)
P – Jared Morton of UC Riverside (Kelowna Falcons)
P – Josh Mitchell of Pittsburgh (Victoria HarbourCats)

SOUTH

1B – Tommy Lane of Marshall (Bend Elks)
2B – George Mendazona of Oregon State (Bend Elks)
SS – Andy Atwood of Oregon State (Corvallis Knights)
3B – Kenyon Yovan of Oregon (Cowlitz Black Bears)
C – Chris Ceballos of Cal State Fullerton (Yakima Valley Pippins)
C – Louis Wolf of OIT (Bend Elks)
UTL – Mitchell Morimoto of Arizona (Yakima Valley Pippins)
UTL – Adley Rutschman of Oregon State (Corvallis Knights)
OF – Jeffrey Mitchell, Jr. of Cal (Gresham GreyWolves)
OF – Kyle Nobach of Oregon State (Corvallis Knights)
OF – Ryan Smith of Southern Illinois (Gresham GreyWolves)
OF – *Weston Hatten of Nevada-Reno (Cowlitz Black Bears)
P – Zach Draper of College of Idaho (Yakima Valley Pippins)
P – Cameron Bishop of UC Irvine (Corvallis Knights)
P – *Ryley Widell of Central Arizona College (Corvallis Knights)
P – Sam Boone of Youngstown State (Bend Elks)
P – Riley Newman of Linfield (Bend Elks)
P – Chase Kaplan of Kansas (Corvallis Knights)
P – Trenton Dupre of Washington State (Corvallis Knights)
P – Parker McFadden of Washington State (Cowlitz Black Bears)
P – Jake Brewer of Concordia (Kitsap BlueJackets)

* Washington State in 2016.

ABOUT THE WEST COAST LEAGUE

The West Coast League is the premier summer collegiate baseball league west of the Mississippi. The 12-year-old, 11-team, professionally operated wood-bat league located in the beautiful Pacific Northwest features pro prospects from major conferences across the nation and an unparalleled history out west of great fan and player experiences in addition to the best summer weather in North America. In 2015, 59 players with WCL experience were selected in the MLB June draft, and more than 200 WCL alums appeared in affiliated professional baseball including 25 in the major leagues, such as home-run leader Chris Davis (Baltimore), NL Rookie of the Year runner-up Matt Duffy (San Francisco) and rising star pitchers Matt Andriese (Tampa Bay) and Josh Osich (San Francisco). Overall member attendance exceeded 400,000 in 2015. The 2016 54-game campaign opens tonight.