Coronado senior Trey Gregory-Alford on Monday was named the Gatorade Colorado Baseball Player of the Year.
The 6-foot-5, 245-pound right-handed pitcher and first baseman slashed .492/.597/1.033 with seven home runs and 41 runs batted in for the Cougars. On the mound, he had a 2-0 record in 11 appearances with 94 strikeouts in 45 2/3 innings pitched with a 1.84 earned-run average.
Gregory-Alford is the first player from Coronado High School to win the award.
“As a team pitching against Trey, we tried to mix up what we were throwing at him over these last two seasons, and nothing seemed to work,” Harrison High School head coach Max Cupp said in a news release. “No matter what we threw, he hit the ball hard. He was a good enough hitter that he was the only guy that we intentionally walked this year, and we did it twice with him.”
In the classroom, he carried a 3.08 grade-point average and signed a National Letter of Intent to play for Virginia this fall. But with a fastball that clocked in at 101.4 mph during a bullpen session in January, he could find himself as a high selection in the upcoming MLB amateur draft. He’s currently ranked as the 125th-best prospect in the class, according to MLB.com.
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