On Tuesday, the Gatorade Company continued its 36th year of celebrating student athletes and named the Buford Wolves’ baseball team’s Dylan Lesko its 2021 Gatorade Georgia Baseball Player of the Year. Lesko, a 6-foot-3, right handed pitcher and rising senior, led the Wolves to a 32-2 overall record which included a Georgia High School Association Class 6A playoff berth, in which they advanced to the second round.
On the mound, Lesko went 11-0 during the 2020-2021 season with a 0.35 ERA with 112 strikeouts through 60 innings. At the plate, Lesko, the nation’s No. 2 recruit out of the class of 2022 according to Perfect Game, batted .417 with 25 RBI’s and a OPS of 1.054. Lesko has verbally committed to continuing his baseball career with Vanderbilt.
