Murray State University Athletics
Thoroughbreds earn All-OVC honors
5/24/2005 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Three Murray State Thoroughbreds earned All-Ohio Valley Conference honors, presented tonight at the banquet preceding the O'Reilly's OVC Baseball Tournament.
Junior designated hitter Chaz Ebert was named to the All-OVC First Team, the first 'Bred to make the first team since 2002 and just the sixth MSU player to make the team since 1996. The post-season honors were first divided into first and second teams in 2003.
Ebert led the 'Breds with a .350 batting average and had a .441 on-base percentage. He popped 12 doubles and had four home runs with a team-leading 51 runs scored and 29 runs batted in.
Senior third baseman Alex Stewart was named to the All-OVC Second Team. He had a .323 batting average and a .475 slugging percentage, slamming a team-high 16 doubles to go with a triple and four home runs. He drove in a team-high 42 RBIs and scored 38 runs. He also led MSU with seven stolen bases.
Senior starting pitcher Craig Kraus was also named to the All-OVC Second Team. Kraus led MSU with eight wins with an 8-2 record thus far. He had a 3.61 earned-run average and had 73 strikeouts to 17 walks, a 4.29 strikeout-to-walk ratio. Kraus allowed only 36 earned runs on 89-2/3 innings of work this season.
Other awards handed out at the banquet included:
Player of the Year: Lance Seasor, Morehead State
Pitcher of the Year: Rowdy Hardy, Austin Peay
Freshman of the Year: Donovan Hand, Jacksonville State
Coach of the Year: Jim Case, Jacksonville State
All-OVC First Team: C Donald Cheney, Morehead State; 1B Bryan Ingram, Morehead State; 2B Lance Seasor, Morehead State; SS Jared Walker, Austin Peay; 3B Eric Horstman, Southeast Missouri State; OF Brett Bolger, Eastern Kentucky; OF Winston Pearson, Jacksonville State; OF Derrick Bussell, Eastern Kentucky; Utility Bryan Stevenson, Eastern Kentucky; DH Chaz Ebert, Murray State; Starting Pitcher Rowdy Hardy, Austin Peay; Starting Pitcher Donovan Hand, Jacksonville State; Relief Pitcher Lee Drinkard, Jacksonville State.
All-OVC Second Team: C Tommy Smith, Austin Peay; 1B Will Whisenant, Eastern Kentucky; 2B Jake Peterson, Austin Peay; SS Jake Ball, Jacksonville State; 3B Alex Stewart, Murray State; OF Cody Youngblood, Austin Peay; OF Brian Piazza, Jacksonville State; OF Kevin Bryant, Morehead State; Utility Chris Poynter, Austin Peay; DH Chris Hyde, Austin Peay; Starting Pitcher Craig Kraus, Murray State; Starting Pitcher Shawn Kelley, Austin Peay; Relief Pitcher Dan Klausmeier, Morehead State.
Murray State opens the O'Reilly's OVC Baseball Tournament tomorrow (Wednesday) at 2:30 p.m. against Southeast Missouri State at Brooks Stadium in Paducah, Ky.
