The Alabama High School Athletic Directors & Coaches Association has selected North-South All-Star Teams for the 2022 AHSAA North-South All-Star Sports Week July 18-22.

Rosters for spring sports were recently released and featured local athletes.

On the softball diamond, the South squad will be coached by Daphne Trojans Head Coach Jenny Laird after a 45-14 overall record and a second-place finish in Class 7A Area 2. She'll have her second baseman, Taylor Hunt, on the lineup card alongside pitcher Ryley Harrison from Fairhope and catcher Emma Weatherford from Baldwin County High.

The South All-Stars will look to reverse the series trend and avenge last year's sweep where the North All-Stars won 11-8 in eight innings and 6-1. The North lead the overall series by a 27-23-3 margin since the first series in 1997.

"Softball in the AHSAA continues to get stronger and stronger, and these two all-star squads reflect that fact," said AHSADCA Director Brandon Dean.

Four local baseball players cracked the South roster including a pair from the two-time state champion Bayshore Christian Eagles, Streed Crooms and John Malone.

Crooms was named the Class 1A State Baseball Championship Series MVP after he registered four RBIs on 3-of-6 hitting in the two games. He also started Game 1 on the mound and recorded a complete game with only one earned run allowed.

They'll be joined by catcher William Brock from Fairhope and pitcher Joshua Gunther from Bayside Academy.

Although the South All-Stars won Game 1 of the 2021 series, 7-6, the second game ended in a 3-3 tie and left the North ahead in the all-time series by a 23-15-2 gap since the first series was played 25 years ago.

Bayside Academy's Claire Prickett was the lone local representative on the South All-Star tennis team after she fell just short of defending her singles state championship in the No. 1 position.

She'll help the South squad start to erase its 2-0 deficit to the North All-Stars in the overall series that was first played in 2019 but was canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic.