Riverside senior Zach Hare has collected some additional hardware in addition to his WPIAL and PIAA State Championship rings.
Hare was named the MaxPreps Pennsylvania Player of the Year and named to its PA All-America honors.
Small Town All-America Team includes only players who attend schools with an enrollment under 1,000 students in a town with a population under 10,000.
P — Zach Hare, Sr., Riverside (Ellwood City, Pa.)
Hare earned MaxPreps Pennsylvania Player of the Year and All-America honors after an astounding playoff performance. He threw 34 consecutive no-hit innings in the postseason (36.1 including regular season) with three no-hitters (one of them a perfect game). Riverside won the Class 3A state championship as Hare went 10-0 with 138 strikeouts and a 0.68 ERA in 72.1 innings pitched. He batted .405 with 26 RBI, five doubles and four home runs.
According to MaxPreps.com:
The small town ranks had a number of outstanding players this year, including the Major League Baseball’s No. 1 overall draft pick Eli Willits of Fort Cobb-Broxton (Fort Cobb, Okla.), the Mississippi brother combination of JoJo Parker and Jacob Parker of Purvis (Miss.) and Texas two-way standout Johnny Slawinski of Johnson City (Texas).
But in the end, it was hard not to reward the postseason performance by Zach Hare of Riverside (Ellwood City, Pa.). In leading the Panthers to the Class 3A state championship and a No. 1 ranking in the Small Town Top 25, Hare threw 34 consecutive no-hit innings. While the streak is not the longest hitless inning streak in high school history, it is easily the longest in the postseason.
The 6-foot-4, 225 pound Hare will go on to play baseball collegiately at Slippery Rock University studying safety management.
