Congratulations to SHS Baseball junior John Hughes who was named the 2023 Valley News Dispatch's Baseball Player of the Year. The honor was awarded for " a .649 batting average and pitched to a 2.08 ERA, but maybe the most incredible stat of all was that he didn’t strike out once in 53 plate appearances. Hughes won the WPIAL regular season batting title and finished second in the regular season in pitcher strikeouts with 78 in his junior season at Springdale." Valley News Dispatch, June 23, 2023.