If you enjoy high school baseball and want to see the area's top juniors and most of the best senior players from the WPIAL, then Burkett Field in Robinson Township in Allegheny County is the place to be this coming weekend.

West Penn Baseball Prospects All-Star weekend gets under way at 7 p.m. Friday with an awards banquet at the Hilton Garden Inn at Southpointe. The affair will honor players selected to play in the all-star doubleheader as well as players and coaches of the year in the WPIAL's four classifications.

The Underclassmen Showcase for 2009 graduates begins at 8 a.m. Saturday. Players will have an opportunity to show off their arms, speed in the 60-yard dash and hitting ability for college and professional scouts.

The all-star doubleheader begins at 5 p.m. Saturday with the Class A All-Stars taking on the Class AA All-Stars. That game will be followed by Class AAA vs. Class AAAA. Both games will be seven innings and wooden bats will be used instead of metal bats. The rain date for the doubleheader is Sunday.

Carmichaels coach Dave Bates has been named the Class A Coach of the Year after guiding the Mighty Mikes to the WPIAL Class A title.

Players from the Post-Gazette Washington Sunday edition circulation area selected to play in the all-star doubleheader are:

• Class AAAA: Chris Dittmar, Canon-McMillan, and Jordan Jankowski, Jim Rider and Peter Ross, Peters Township.

• Class AA: Nick Stewart, Waynesburg Central, and Eric Landman, Brownsville.

• Class A: Dave Montibeller, Jefferson-Morgan; Andrew Petras, Chartiers-Houston; Marcus Robinson, Carmichaels; and Chase Roman and Taylor Young, Bentworth.

John Curtis of Jefferson-Morgan and Don Hartman of California are two of the coaches for the Class A All-Stars, while South Fayette's James Barton and Brownsville's Skooter Roebuck will help coach the Class AA stars. Ringgold's Dan O'Rourke is one of the four coaches with the Class AAA stars and Peters Township's Joe Maize is a coach for the Class AAAA All-Stars.