Bob Jones High School baseball standout Braden Booth continues to pile up national honors and this time teammate Zack Johnson was also recognized for his stellar performance for the first-time state champions.

National prep sports website MaxPreps named Booth to its All-American first team as a utility player and Johnson was a second-team pick at catcher.

The Patriots were the only players from Alabama to make the site’s 30-player first team and 30-player second team.

Booth, who signed with Mississippi State, pitched and played third base for the Patriots. He was named the Gatorade Alabama Baseball Player of the Year and was the Alabama Sports Writers Association Player and Pitcher of the Year. The website said, based on its leaderboards, he was second in the state with 10 home runs and led Alabama with 13 wins on the mound as he finished 13-1 on the season.

He threw two no-hitters, three shutouts with 127 strikeouts in 83.1 innings. Booth had a 1.51 ERA. At the plate, he batted .429 with 57 runs, 49 RBIs and 17 doubles.

Johnson, a junior in 2024, was among the nation’s leaders with 65 RBIs, according to MaxPreps. He was named the ASWA Class 7A Hitter of the Year after batting .384 with 11 doubles, three triples and five home runs. Johnson is a University of Alabama commitment.

Booth and Johnson helped Bob Jones to a No. 17 final MaxPreps national ranking. Central-Phenix City, the 7A runner-up to Bob Jones, finished 23rd in the Top 25.

MaxPreps named Konnor Griffin of Jackson (Miss.) Prep as its National Baseball Player of the Year. Griffin’s team finished at No. 7 in the final MaxPreps Top 25. The website said Griffin is ranked as the No. 2 player in the country according to recruiting services and that some mock drafts predict he will be the first high school player selected. The MLB draft begins on Sunday.

The site said according to its statistics, Griffin led the nation in runs scored with 76 and stolen bases with 85. He batted .599 with 13 doubles, 39 RBIs and nine home runs. He was 10-0 on the mound for the Mississippi state champions with 107 strikeouts and a 0.72 ERA.

Brad Bass of Catholic High School in Baton Rouge, the Max Preps No. 1 team, was named Coach of the Year. Bass led the Bears to a 38-2 record and a Louisiana Select Division 1 state title.

Corona, Calif., had two pitchers – senior Ethan Schiefelbein and junior Seth Hernandez – on the first team. Harvard-Westlake of Studio City, Calif., and Bob Jones were the only teams to place one player on the first team and one on the second. Westlake infielder Bryce Rainer made the first team and pitcher Duncan Marsten was on the second.