Two Lone Tree Lion baseball players are continuing to earn accolades for this past season. Lion senior Erik Murry and sophomore Jovonte Squires have been selected to the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association’s Class 1A All Southeast District second team.

Murry, named a first team All-SEISC pitcher last week, made the squad as one of the districts’ four second team pitchers. Murry struck out a career high 117 batters this season, 32 more than any other pitcher in the league. His seven victories on the mound tied Mediapolis’s Kelton Gourley for the most in the SEISC. During the district tournament, he pitched 13.2 innings, earning two victories, allowing three total runs, all of them earned, on six hits, walking five batters and striking out 24. At the plate, Erik posted a .400 batting average for the week, recording three singles and a double, drove in three runs and scored two more in victories against Sigourney, Highland, and Pekin.

Squires is one of the district’s five utility players. He posted a 1.000 percent fielding percentage in 128 chances, recording 110 put outs and assisted on 18 others. Squires stole 39 bases in 40 chances during the season, ranking him third in the conference and his 30 runs scored was the sixth best mark in the league. During Lone Tree’s district tournament, Squires drove in three runs, scored four more, forced two walks and stole two bases in their three victories.

Lone Tree ended the baseball season 18-10 overall, caputring the Class 1A District 9 championship. The Lions fell one game short of a return trip to the state tournament, falling 8-1 to the Van Buren Warriors (29-0) in the Class 1A Subdistrict 5 championship last Tuesday.