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 is the place to be Saturday.

West Penn Baseball Prospects All-Star weekend gets under way at 7 p.m. tomorrow 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.

The interesting part of the all-star games is that players will use wooden bats.

"It'll be different for the players," said Serra Catholic coach Brian Dzurenda, who has conducted wooden bat weekend tournaments. "Players won't be able to use that lazy, looping swing that they can get away with using metal bats. With a wooden bat there's a smaller sweet spot."

Bethel Park High School coach Jim Rider estimated that about half of the players selected for the all-star game have used a wooden bat in a game at some point.

"Some of the fall leagues use them and there are wooden bat tournaments a lot of these players have been in," Rider said. "These could be quick games with the quality of the pitching."

West Allegheny coach Bryan Cornell said many of the players in the all-star game will have to be reminded about having the trademark on the wooden bats face them while hitting.

"But I think it's a good idea to have the players use wooden bats in a game like this," Cornell said. "It'll make it more interesting."

Jeff Kuzma of West Mifflin is the Class AAA Coach of the Year after guiding the Titans to a 13-1 Section 4-AAA record. Shawn Trainor of Seton-LaSalle is the Class AA Coach of the Year as the Rebels went 17-0 during the regular season.

Players from the PG South edition circulation area selected to play in the all-star doubleheader are:

• Class AAAA: Jordan Jankowski and Jim Rider, Peters Township; Brian Lattanzi, Upper St. Clair; and Jordan Steranka and Eric Isler, Mt. Lebanon.

• Class AAA: Dean Langholz and Jack Shaffer, Thomas Jefferson; Zach Mikolics, Elizabeth Forward; Mike Neckerman, West Mifflin; and Kyle Thomas, Steel Valley.

• Class AA: Patric Capatolla and Chris Weigold, Seton-LaSalle.

• Class A: Cam Olsen, Serra Catholic.

Dzurenda will be one of the coaches for the Class A team, while Mark Suckfiel of South Allegheny will help coach the Class AA stars. Kuzma will help with the Class AAA team and Rider and Peters Township's Joe Maize are two of the five coaches with the Class AAAA all-stars.

"It's a fun experience and a chance to be on the same team with some players who have always been on the other side," coach Rider said.