Nick Mingione, who led UK to 38 wins in his first season with UK, was named SEC Coach of the Year on Monday afternoon. RHP Sean Hjelle won Pitcher of the Year. Several other Wildcats were honored as well.
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Extremely impressed with both of those things. Moreso with Hjelle getting pitcher of the year. In a league full of amazing pitchers he gets the nod... congrats big man!
Extremely proud and impressed we garnered this many awards, all are deserving. Great season, looking to be even greater.
Andy Cannizaro was certainly in the running for a while. Mississippi State vercame a lot of injury issues to compete in the West. Mingione was more deserving in the end.
Riley Mahan 2nd team????? Wow, that kid had a awesome year. Who was the 1st team 2nd basemen? Also, how is Evan White not 1st team? He was second in the batting average. Right?
Player of the Year: Brent Rooker, Mississippi State
Pitcher of the Year: Sean Hjelle, Kentucky
Freshman of the Year: Braden Shewmake, Texas A&M
Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Zach Logue, Kentucky
Coach of the Year: Nick Mingione, Kentucky
First Team All-SEC
C: Grant Koch, Arkansas
1B: Brent Rooker, Mississippi State
2B: Braden Shewmake, Texas A&M
3B: Jordan Rodgers, Tennessee
SS: Ryan Gridley, Mississippi State
OF: Greg Deichmann, LSU
OF: Tristan Pompey, Kentucky
OF: Jeren Kendall, Vanderbilt
DH/UT: Michael Curry, Georgia
SP: Kyle Wright, Vanderbilt
*SP: Sean Hjelle, Kentucky
*SP: Alex Lange, LSU
RP: Logan Salow, Kentucky
Second Team All-SEC
C: Troy Squires, Kentucky
1B: Evan White, Kentucky
2B: Riley Mahan, Kentucky
3B: Colby Bortles, Ole Miss
*SS: Kramer Robertson, LSU
*SS: Jax Biggers, Arkansas
OF: Jonah Todd, Auburn
OF: Jake Mangum, Mississippi State
OF: Chandler Taylor, Alabama
DH/UT: JJ Schwarz, Florida
SP: Alex Faedo, Florida
SP: Brady Singer, Florida
RP: Michael Byrne, Florida
Freshman All-SEC
C: Hunter Coleman, Texas A&M
1B: Andre Lipcius, Tennessee
2B: Braden Shewmake, Texas A&M
3B: Josh Smith, LSU
SS: Cam Shepherd, Georgia
OF: Carlos Cortes, South Carolina
OF: Zach Watson, LSU
OF: Dominic Fletcher, Arkansas
DH/UT: Logan Foster, Texas A&M
SP: Ryan Rolison, Ole Miss
SP: Eric Walker, LSU
RP: T.J. Sikkema, Missouri
SEC All-Defensive
C: Michael Papierski, LSU
1B: Evan White, Kentucky
2B: Deacon Liput, Florida
3B: Josh Smith, LSU
SS: Dalton Guthrie, Florida
OF: Jeren Kendall, Vanderbilt
OF: Jonah Todd, Auburn
OF: Jake Mangum, Mississippi State
P: Brigham Hill, Texas A&M
What a fantastic award for Mingione to win in his first year of coaching. Also congrats to Sean Hjelle, Tristan Pompay and Logan Salow for making the first team in all-SEC. Keep in mind that the Cats best player, Evan White would had made first team all-SEC and maybe SEC player of the year if he had not gotten injured.
Would have been nice, but it's done and at least we have a shot. I think we need to make a serious showing and get a national seed to have the opportunity to play at home till the CWS!!With all those awards we should have won SEC.
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