Jon Helsabeck – Diamond Prospects

Spring Preview: Fort Dorchester Patriots

By: Jon Helsabeck – December 14, 2023 The 2024 Patriot baseball team will look different than any of the 31 years before. Over the offseason, many improvements were made and are still being made at the field including the installation of a brand-new infield, a plyo wall, a new backstop is coming, a fence to enclose the home bullpen and ou… The new DP website is here. For all the great DP content, subscribe. If you have any login/subscription issues, please contact our support team. Your feedback on the new experience is appreciated as well. Username Password Remember Me Forgot Password

DP Grand Strand Invitees: 2023 Fall-Star Game

–Coastal Carolina University– Wednesday, October 25, 2023 Admission: FREE Schedule: 4:30-4:50 Players pick up jersey in 1B dugout 4:50-5:00 Meet with teams 5:05-5:25 Teal BP on field 5:25-5:45 Black BP on field 5:45-6:00 Loosen Arms, Clear, drag field 6:00-6:10 Both Teams In/Out 6:27 National Anthem 6:30 Teal vs Black (10 inning game) Dugouts: 1B Teal, 3B Black -TEAL- Manager: Brian Alderson – North Myrtle Beach NameHigh SchoolClassPositionCommittedLuke RoupeNorth Myrtle Beach2025RHP/CINFVanderbiltCJ OxendineNorth Myrtle Beach2025C/UTL/RHPVirginia TechJosh SurigaoNorth Myrtle Beach2024LHP/1BHawaiiSawyer SmithNorth Myrtle Beach2026SS/RHPNorth CarolinaMason CoxNorth Myrtle Beach2024CF–Cody RiceNorth Myrtle Beach20241B/P–Asa BoardNorth Myrtle Beach20252B/RHP–Gabe KuznikNorth Myrtle Beach2025OF/P–Nico GoheenNorth Myrtle Beach2024LF–Porter AnglinNorth Myrtle Beach2027RF/RHP–Jake FrickNorth Myrtle Beach2026RHP/C/1B–Fisher NicholsNorth Myrtle Beach2026RHP/INF–Peyton GallupNorth Myrtle Beach2027C/INF–Tucker BassLake View2024C–Hayden DayLoris20252B/3B–AJ MccoyLoris20241B/OF–Chase HerringLoris2024SS/OF–Justin SheffieldAtlantic Coll20253B/OF–Seth MinshewLatta2025INF–Zach JohnsonAtlantic Coll2024RHPCokerHayes ClarkGreen Sea Floyds2026RHP/INF– -BLACK- Manager: Billy Sylvester – Conway NameHigh SchoolClassPositionCommittedNolan AlexanderCarolina Forest2024RHP/UTLLanderParker ReavisCarolina Forest2026INF/UTL–Eli ChowningCarolina Forest2027LHP/UTL–Connor PellerinCarolina Forest2027RHP/UTL–Gatlin PascoCarolina Forest2026INF/RHP–Jordan MontesCarolina Forest2024LHP/OF–Casey SoissonCarolina Forest2024INF/RHP–Bobby JonesCarolina Forest2024INF–Banks AlexanderCarolina Forest2028C/UTL–Brice UrsoCarolina Forest2026OF–Luke McCuskerCarolina Forest20261B/RHP–Mark AllenCarolina Forest2025OF–Kenley McCrackenConway2024OF/RHP–Jake McCrackenConway2025LHP/UTL–Ethan CollinsConway2025RHP/OF–Corbin ToddConway2026INF/RHP–Matthew MitchellGeorgetown2024OF–Luke JohnsonGeorgetown2024UTL/RHP–Bo MoodyGeorgetown2025INF/RHPPresbyterianBrayden BordersLake View2025UTL/C–JD MurdockAtlantic Coll2025C–Injured but invited to be in the dugout and participate in pregame BP: Dillon Pruett (Conway), Brett Barker (Carolina Forest)

Summerville @ Ft. Dorchester

By: Jon Helsabeck – April 24, 2023 Summerville wins Lowcountry marathon, 3-0 On an evening where this evaluator had plans of no stopwatch or radar gun on my way to the ballpark with my family to take in a 5A baseball game, I instinctively decided to grab my tools out of the back, just in case. A cheeky eye roll and a grin from the wife befo… The new DP website is here. For all the great DP content, subscribe. If you have any login/subscription issues, please contact our support team. Your feedback on the new experience is appreciated as well.

Ashley Ridge @ Summerville

By: Jon Helsabeck – April 17, 2023 -Summerville survives Stryker, Webb wins- .gb-block-image-8a7b5e3d{padding:3px;float:left;}.gb-image-8a7b5e3d{border-radius:30px;width:350px;} Lowcountry baseball in April…Two Region 7 – 5A foes with two Division 1 college bound arms on the mound! That’s all DP needed to make the short trip over to watch… The new DP website is here. For all the great DP content, subscribe. If you have any login/subscription issues, please contact our support team. Your feedback on the new experience is appreciated as well.

Summerville @ West Ashley

By: Jon Helsabeck – April 5, 2023 When two region foes square off it is always a great time to catch a ballgame. After West Ashley knocked off top ranked Summerville in game one of the series, the trip was made to Wildcat Park to watch the region’s top two teams battle it out. The Wildcats beat the Green Wave in game one, 7-6 and with two prep … The new DP website is here. For all the great DP content, subscribe. If you have any login/subscription issues, please contact our support team. Your feedback on the new experience is appreciated as well.

Ashley Ridge @ Berkeley

By: Jon Helsabeck – April 3, 2023 When it comes to big time games in the middle of the season, we are usually talking about series clinching region games. However tonight, DP made the familiar trip back to Jim Bradley Field on the campus of Berkeley High School to watch the Stags in a non-region match up against the Swamp Foxes of Ashley Ridge…. The new DP website is here. For all the great DP content, subscribe. If you have any login/subscription issues, please contact our support team. Your feedback on the new experience is appreciated as well.

Wando @ Berkeley

By: Jon Helsabeck – March 29, 2023 .gb-block-image-3b7f956f{padding:3px;float:left;}.gb-image-3b7f956f{border-radius:30px;} This trip to Jim Bradley Field had been on my schedule for a while now and I looked forward to it just as much as any other trip there. My first visit to this park was a 2021 State Playoff game and since then, this woul… The new DP website is here. For all the great DP content, subscribe. If you have any login/subscription issues, please contact our support team. Your feedback on the new experience is appreciated as well.

Cane Bay @ Stratford

By: Jon Helsabeck – March 28, 2023 Anybody from the Piedmont-Triad area of North Carolina gets excited when someone mentions Stratford. The barbeque and the tenderloin biscuits are a thing of beauty. A delicacy, some would say. Even if you aren’t hungry, your instinctive answer is ‘Absolutely!’ Coincidentally, that was my same instinctive answe… The new DP website is here. For all the great DP content, subscribe. If you have any login/subscription issues, please contact our support team. Your feedback on the new experience is appreciated as well.

Oceanside @ Summerville

By: Jon Helsabeck – March 20, 2023 – Landsharks swim through Wave – For some, success is measured by progress. One step, then another. The journey is hard but holds its own rewards. For others, only the destination counts. Only one measure of achievement truly matters. Indeed, history is written by the winners. And tonight, Green Wave Park w… The new DP website is here. For all the great DP content, subscribe. If you have any login/subscription issues, please contact our support team. Your feedback on the new experience is appreciated as well.

Bio: Jon Helsabeck

Jon Helsabeck is a native of Rural Hall, NC where he was an All-Conference baseball selection at Parkland High School during his junior and senior years. Helsabeck played two years at Mars Hill University before a brief Spring Training stint in the Frontier League cut short by a back injury. Helsabeck was the Assistant Baseball Coach and Assistant Athletic Director at Stanly Community College in NC for five years before moving to SC to head the Murrells Inlet Tide in The Beach Collegiate Baseball League along with creating his travel program Diamond Wizards Baseball in Myrtle Beach. Jon and family moved to the Lowcountry in 2021 and he is now the Head Baseball Coach at Fort Dorchester High School and is the commissioner of the Diamond Prospects Grand Strand Fall League. Helsabeck currently lives in Summerville, SC with his wife Megan and children Braiden, Kaylei, Paisley, McKinley and Oaklei.