BIG SOUTH BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME NOTES (PDF)
LYNCHBURG, Va. -- Longwood University had two selections to the 2013 Big South Baseball All-Conference Teams, as announced Monday night at the tournament banquet for this week's Big South Baseball Championship presented by Triangle Rent A Car at Liberty University in Lynchburg. Junior captain
Alex Owens/Purcellville was selected to the All-Conference First Team, and sophomore
Brandon Vick/Newport News was named to the All-Academic Team.
Alex Owens, a third baseman, has started all 50 games for Longwood, batting .286 with four home runs, one triple, 18 doubles, 31 RBI, 28 runs and 28 walks. He has 14 multi-hit games, seven multi-RBI games, a .462 slugging percentage, a .380 on base percentage and a .914 fielding percentage with 46 putouts and 123 assists in 185 chances. Owens leads the Lancers in doubles, walks, total bases (84), sacrifice flies (4), total plate appearances (218), slugging percentage and on base percentage.
Brandon Vick, a left handed pitcher, has made 13 appearances with 12 starts and two complete games, while compiling a 5-5 record and a 4.06 earned run average over 77.2 innings with 27 strikeouts. He leads the team in innings pitched and has issued only 27 walks, while limiting the opposition to a .265 batting average. Academically, Vick majors in kinesiology with a concentration in exercise science and has attained a 3.11 cumulative GPA. He is a two-time Longwood Scholar-Athlete (2012, 2013) and earned the 2013 Longwood All-Academic Team Award.
VMI senior outfielder Rob Dickinson was voted 2013 Big South Baseball Player of the Year, while Campbell head coach Greg Goff was tabbed the 2013 Coach of the Year by the conference's head coaches. The coaches also voted Campbell hurler Ryan Thompson Pitcher of the Year and Coastal Carolina pitcher Seth Lamando the Big South Freshman of the Year. Justin Creel of Coastal Carolina and Brad Zebedis of Presbyterian College were voted Co-Scholar-Athletes of the Year by the league's sports information directors.
Longwood (24-26) has earned the No. 7 seed for the 2013 Big South Baseball Championship presented by Triangle Rent A Car and will play No. 2 seed and five-time defending Big South Champion Coastal Carolina (35-19) in the opening game of the double-elimination tournament on Tuesday, May 21 at 9:30 a.m. at the Liberty Baseball Stadium in Lynchburg.
All-Conference First Team
OF: Rob Dickinson, VMI
OF: Bobby Ison, Charleston Southern
OF: Ben McQuown, Campbell
1B: Spencer Angelis, High Point
2B: Michael Felton, Campbell
3B: Elijah Trail, Campbell (tie)
3B:
Alex Owens, Longwood (tie)
SS: Jeff Kemp, Radford
C: Trey Wimmer, Liberty
DH: Zack Hagaman, Charleston Southern
SP: Ryan Mattes, Campbell
SP: Ben Smith, Coastal Carolina
SP: Matt Fraudin, Gardner-Webb
RP: Ryan Thompson, Campbell
All-Conference Second Team
OF: Jacob May, Coastal Carolina
OF: Ryan Retz, High Point
OF: Clayton Brown, Campbell
1B: Brad Zebedis, Presbyterian
2B: Bryan Aanderud, Liberty
3B: Chad Smith, Winthrop
SS: Brent Graham, Campbell
C: Will Remillard, Coastal Carolina (tie)
C: Matt Winn, VMI (tie)
DH: David Olson, Campbell
SP: Jacob Newberry, High Point
SP: Heath Bowers, Campbell
SP: Tory Schroff, Charleston Southern
RP: Ryan Connolly, Coastal Carolina
Conference All-Academic Team
David Olson, Campbell
Alex Tomasovich, Charleston Southern
Justin Creel, Coastal Carolina
Andrew Barnett, Gardner-Webb
Will Resnik, High Point
Trey Lambert, Liberty
Brandon Vick, Longwood
Brad Zebedis, Presbyterian
Tyler Costello, Radford
Dillon Tabar, UNC Asheville
Drew Bryan, VMI
Max Vogel, Winthrop
Player of the Year
Rob Dickinson, VMI
Pitcher of the Year
Ryan Thompson, Campbell
Freshman of the Year
Seth Lamando, Coastal Carolina
Co-Scholar-Athletes of the Year
Justin Creel, Coastal Carolina
Brad Zebedis, Presbyterian College
Coach of the Year
Greg Goff, Campbell
