Five Flashes Named to All-MAC Baseball Squad
5/26/2010 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio - Five Kent State players were named to the All-Mid-American Conference baseball team, released Tuesday night (May 25) at VA Memorial Stadium in Chillicothe, Ohio, site of the 2010 MAC Baseball Tournament.
Senior outfielder Anthony Gallas (Strongsville, Ohio/Strongsville) was the lone Kent State representative on the first team. Gallas finished the regular season with eighth-highest batting average in the conference at .381 while leading in MAC games, hitting at a scorching .446 clip. He also led the league in both RBI's (77) and doubles (22) while finishing second in total bases (163) home runs (17), third in hits (88) and sixth in runs scored (60).
In his final regular season game at Akron (May 22), he collected his 200th run to become the first conference player to collect more than 250 hits, 200 runs scored and 200 RBI's for his career.
Four different Flashes were named Second Team All-MAC for the second consecutive year. Both redshirt junior Robert Sabo (Middletown, Ohio/Middletown) and sophomore David Starn (Hudson, Ohio/Walsh Jesuit) were named starting pitchers on the second team squad. Sabo finished the year 5-4 and was 10th in the MAC with a 4.32 ERA. He also finished fourth in the conference with fellow second-team member Starn with 66 strikeouts. Starn led the team and was second in the conference with a 7-2 record.
Finally, sophomore infielder Travis Shaw (Washington Court House) and freshman Evan Campbell (Beloit, Ohio/West Branch) round out the Kent State contingent on the second team. Shaw finished the season with a .320 average and finished second on the team with 17 home runs. Campbell, who did not play until the final weekend before conference play, finished fourth on the team with a .349 average with 53 hits, 32 RBI's and 31 runs scored.
Kent State will open up conference tournament play tomorrow against Eastern Michigan at 4 p.m.
MAC Player of the Year - Kolbrin Vitek, Ball State, 2B/P
MAC Pitcher of the Year - Jesse Hernandez, Central Michigan, RHP
MAC Freshman of the Year - Dietrich Enns, Central Michigan, LHP
MAC Coach of the Year - Cory Mee, Toledo
2010 MAC Baseball All-MAC First Team
C- Zach Dygert, Ball State
1B- Nate Theunissen, Central Michigan
2B- Brad Agustin, Buffalo
3B-Joe Corfman, Toledo
SS- Jon Berti, Bowling Green
OF-Anthony Gallas, Kent State
OF- Gauntlett Eldemire, Ohio
OF- Robbert Maddox III, Ohio
SP- Jesse Hernandez, Central Michigan
SP-Perci Garner, Ball State
SP-Kevin Leady, Bowling Green
SP- Kendall Lewis, Eastern Michigan
RP- Dietrich Enns, Central Michigan
DH-Matt Delewski, Toledo
Utility -Kolbrin Vitek, Ball State
2010 MAC Baseball All-MAC Second Team
C- John Turk, Akron
1B- Ian Nielsen, Ball State
2B- Evan Campbell, Kent State
3B-Travis Shaw, Kent State
SS-Jared Hoying, Toledo
OF-T.J. Blanton, Bowling Green
OF- Adam Eaton, Miami
OF-Chris Dudics, Toledo
SP-Robert Sabo, Kent State
SP- David Starn, Kent State
SP- Matt Suschak, Toledo
SP-Mike Hamann, Toledo
RP-Trent Howard, Central Michigan
DH-Matt Pitzullo, Bowling Green
Utility – Derek Spencer, Bowling Green
