Six League Baseballers Named to Daktronics & ABCA Rawlings All-Southeast Region Teams; MOC's Escalante Earns Player of the Year Honor
The 2012 Daktronics & ABCA/Rawlings All-Southeast Regional Teams were announced with six Conference Carolinas players being honored. Gino Escalante of Mount Olive highlighted the awards being named the Daktronics regional Player of the Year.
Chris Thomas of Lander University was named the Southeast Region Pitcher of the Year. Mount Olive's Geno Escalante was named the Southeast Region Player of the Year.
The first team selections will move on to the All-America ballot. The Daktronics All-America programs honor student-athletes in Division II athletic programs. The voting, nomination and calculations are all conducted by the school's sports information directors.
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2012 Daktronics Baseball All-Southeast Region
Pitcher of the Year: Chris Thomas, Lander
Player of the Year: Geno Escalante, Mount Olive
First Team
P: Chris Thomas, Lander
P: Craig Goodman, Tusculum
P: Matt Dillion, Mount Olive
P: JJ Jankowski, Catawaba
RP: Emilio Pagan, Belmont Abbey
C: Geno Escalante, Mount Olive
1B: Jacob Rogers, Mount Olive
2B: Andre Rodriguez, Lincoln Memorial
3B: Cade Stallings, Tusculum
SS: AJ Nunziato, Lander
OF: Casey Allison, Wingate
OF: Aaron Guinn, Tusculum
OF: Nick Aranas, USC Aiken
DH: Cody Mass, Georgia College
UT: Cody Coffman, Tusculum
Second Team
P: Ethan Bader, Armstrong
P: Danny Brown, Flagler
P: Spencer Jordan, Francis Marion
P: Chandler Hall, Armstrong
RP: Braxton Lewis, UNC Pembroke
C: Josh Miller, USC Aiken
1B: Kyle Koeneman, Carson-Newman
2B: Will Fulmer, Montevallo
3B: Jermaine Berry, Mount Olive
SS: Mike Mercurio, Mount Olive
OF: Josh Haley, UNC Pembroke
OF: Zach Taylor, Armstrong
OF: Alexi Colon, Tusculum
DH: RJ Dennard, Armstrong *tied
DH: Carlos Santana, Tusculum *tied
UT: Eitan "ET" Maos, UNC Pembroke
ABCA Rawlins Division II Southeast All-Region Team
First Team
1b - Kyle Koeneman, Carson-Newman
2b - Andre Rodriguez, Lincoln Memorial
3b - Cade Stallings, Tusculum
SS - A.J. Nunziato, Lander
INF - Mike Mercurio, Mt. Olive
C - Geno Escalante, Mt. Olive
OF - Zach Taylor, Armstrong
OF - Casey Allison, Wingate
OF - Alexi Colon, Tusculum
OF - Derek Fulmer, North Greenville
P - Chris Thomas, Lander
P - Ethan Bader, Armstrong
P - Craig Goodman, Tusculum
P - Matt Dillon, Mt. Olive
RP - Emilio Pagan, Belmont Abbey
DH - Garrett Furr, Catawba
Second Team
1b - Jacob Rogers, Mt. Olive
2b - Will Fulmer, Montevallo
3b - Jacob Karr, Wingate
SS - Stephen Carmon, USC Aiken
INF - R.J. Dennard, Armstrong
C - Josh Miller, USC Aiken
OF - Nick Aranas, USC Aiken
OF - Josh Haley, UNC Pembroke
OF - Buddy Sosnoskie, Francis Marion
OF - Ethan Satterfield, Catawba
P - Spencer Jordan, Francis Marion
P - Danny Brown, Flagler
P - J.J. Jankowski, Catawba
P - Jake Moser, Mt. Olive
RP - Braxton Lewis, UNC Pembroke
DH - Cody Maas, Georgia College