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 |  |  |  | 2008 UMAC All-Conference Baseball Teams Announced
Friday, May 16, 2008St. Paul, Minn., (May 16, 2008) – Following their 12th straight Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) championship and fourth consecutive appearance in the NCAA tournament, the College of St. Scholastica claimed a league-high eight individual UMAC First Team All-Conference awards. Six of the Saints’ nine position players earned All-Conference accolades, while St. Scholastica had two pitchers receive first team recognition. Two more Saints were selected to the Honorable Mention team. CSS went 17-1 in conference play in 2008, besting second place Bethany Lutheran College by five games.
St. Scholastica also took three of the league’s four premier awards for baseball. First baseman Sean Claughtery was chosen as the UMAC’s Offensive Player of the Year, while teammate Peter Burg won Pitcher of the Year honors. Claughtery recorded a .492 batting average in 18 conference games, tallying a league-high 23 RBI to go with 10 doubles and six home runs.
Burg maintained a 1.04 ERA in five starts for St. Scholastica, giving up three earned runs in 26 innings. He struck out 23 batters while holding opponents to a .176 batting average.
Shortstop Trent Sonnicksen from Bethany Lutheran won Rookie of the Year honors after batting .377 with 23 hits in conference games.
St. Scholastica head coach John Baggs was selected as the conference’s Coach of the Year.
Bethany Lutheran boasted five First Team All-Conference awards, while Northland College and Presentation College each had two selections. Martin Luther College, Northwestern College and the University of Minnesota-Morris each had one honoree on the first team. Full Story |  |  |  |  |
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