The Prep Baseball Arizona High School Player of the Week highlights the best performance for an Arizona High School positional player from the previous week.  Each week, High School coaches are emailed and asked to send in their nominees for Pitcher and Player of the Week, along with our scouting staff attending games and scouring box scores throughout the week.  If you wish to nominate someone for Player or Pitcher of the Week, please email Arizona Scouting Director, Shea Sbranti.

To begin each week, Prep Baseball Arizona will announce it's Player of the Week, alongside our Power 25 Rankings Update, from the previous Monday-Sunday games.

'24 RHP Ryan Dilger (Desert Ridge HS) takes home this week's Player of the Week honors following his six dominant innings against Gilbert on Tuesday as he punched out 13 hitters.

PLAYER OF THE WEEK: APRIL 15-21

'24 RHP RYAN DILGER, DESERT RIDGE (CHANDLER-GILBERT)

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STAT LINE (APRIL 15-21)

Innings: 6.0
Runs Allowed: 1
Hits Allowed: 5
Walks Allowed: 2
Strikeouts: 13

2024 RHP Ryan Dilger (Chandler-Gilbert CC commit) got the start for Desert Ridge last Tuesday and dominated once again, racking up double-digit strikeouts for the second straight game as he sat down 13 Gilbert hitters over six innings. In the 3-1 victory, the right-hander allowed just one run, five hits and two walks. In Dilger's past two starts, he's struck out 25 hitters to just four walks over 12.2 innings. Last week, Desert Ridge went 2-0 with wins over Gilbert and Desert Vista, before dropping one to Desert Vista yesterday in their final game of the regular season.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

SHOWCASE	STATE	DATE	LOCATION
Arizona Rising Stars ID - Session 2	AZ	04/27	Grand Canyon University - Phoenix, AZ
Mesa Summer ID	AZ	05/29	Desert Ridge High School - Mesa, AZ
2024 ProCase - West	AZ	06/02	Pepperdine University
Top Prospect Games: Upperclass (Invite-Only)	AZ	06/03	Grand Canyon University - Phoenix, AZ
Top Prospect Games: Underclass (Invite-Only)	AZ	06/10	American Family Fields of Phoenix
West Side Summer ID	AZ	06/18	Canyon View High School - Waddell, AZ
Glendale Summer ID	AZ	07/16	Apollo High School - Glendale, AZ
Future Games (Class of 2026/27)	NATIONAL	07/24	LakePoint Sports
Junior Future Games (Class of 2028/29)	NATIONAL	07/24	LakePoint Sports
Senior Future Games (Class of 2025)	NATIONAL	07/24	LakePoint Sports

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