High school baseball: Gainesville Sun all-area teams

Newberry's Justen Crews is the Gainesville Sun Baseball Player of the Year.

Outside of the Newberry High baseball program, not many could have predicted the kind of season the Panthers would have.

A 5-4 start last season before COVID-19 shut down the 2020 season didn’t exactly set the tone for 2021, but the Panthers knew they had something special brewing.

“Going into my junior year, we knew we would win state and after having our season shut down, we knew we had to get it done this year,” Justen Crews said.

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