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11 Majors Named to SCAC 15th Anniversary Baseball Team

Catcher, Chris Lawrence. Lawrence was an All-SCAC catcher for three consecutive years (1994-1996), and hit a combined .355 with 54 RBI his final two seasons with the Majors. Also a talented pitcher, Lawrence led the SCAC in ERA his freshman season (2.30) and was third in the league with 53 strikeouts as a junior in 1995.

First Base. Mike Highfill. Highfill, the 1997 SCAC Co-Player-of-the-Year, a four-time All-SCAC honoree and two-time All-American (1996, 1997), finished his career with 34 home runs, 184 runs batted in, 53 doubles and 115 walks - all good for fourth all-time on the SCAC career charts. He also had 13 triples (seventh all-time), a .391 career batting average (12th all-time) with 176 runs scored (seventh all-time). He led the league in batting in 1997 (.460) and in home runs in 1996 (13).

Second Basee, K.K. Aldridge. Aldridge batted .316 for his career, falling just four hits short of 200 with 196. A three-time All-SCAC and a two-time All-Tournament selection, he finished his career with 158 runs scored and 29 doubles.

Shortstop, Kirk Kinard and Matt Yglesias. Kinard earned SCAC Player-of-the-Year honors in 1993 as a freshman and finished his career with three All-SCAC selections. He finished his career with 159 runs driven in (10th all-time in the SCAC) and 13 triples (tied for seventh all-time). He led the league in hits in 1993 (45) as well as triples (7), home runs (5) and RBIs (35). After graduation, Kinard played one season of minor league baseball with Bakersfield of the California League.

Yglesias finished his career at Millsaps with 214 hits (ninth all-time in the SCAC), 172 runs scored (tied for 10th all-time) and 67 stolen bases (tied for sixth all-time). The league's Player-of-the-Year in 2003, he was a two-time SCAC All-Tournament selection and four-time all-conference honoree. Yglesias batted .342 for his career with 44 doubles.

Third Base, Scott Staines. Staines, a three-time All-SCAC selection for Millsaps (2002-2004), hit .323 for his career with 121 runs scored, 35 doubles and 140 runs driven in. He tied for the league lead in RBIs as a junior with 44 and was an All-Tournament selection the following season

Outfielders. Peter Austin and Brandon Page. Austin, a four-time All-SCAC outfielder (1994-1997), hit .349 during his career with 177 hits, 131 runs scored and 106 runs driven in. He was drafted in the 40th round of the 1997 Major League Baseball draft – making him the first SCAC student-athlete to be taken by a professional team in its amateur draft.

Page, the 2001 SCAC Player-of-the-Year, finished his career with a .359 batting average with 175 runs scored (eighth all-time in the SCAC), 205 hits, 51 doubles (sixth all-time), 12 triples, 129 runs driven in and 67 stolen bases (tied for sixth all-time).

Pitchers, Doug Garner, Teddy Hymel and Chat Lenhart. Garner is the league's all-time leader in wins with 32 and posted a career earned run average of 3.23 (fourth all-time in the SCAC). The 2003 SCAC Pitcher-of-the-Year, Garner was a two-time All-SCAC and All-Tournament honoree. He charted 260 strikeouts (fourth all-time) in 345.1 career innings pitched.

Hymel was a two-time SCAC Pitcher-of-the-Year (1994, 1996) who won 28 games in his career (second all-time in the SCAC). His 2.70 career ERA is second all-time in league history. Also a threat at the plate - Hymel was a career .338 hitter - he struck out 150 batters in 233.2 innings pitched. He led the league in ERA and wins in both 1994 and 1996.

Lenhart won 27 games for the Majors from 2000-2003 (tied for third all-time) and was a three-time All-SCAC honoree and the league's Co-Pitcher-of-the-Year as a sophomore in 2001. He earned All-Tournament honors twice and posted a career ERA of 4.64 in 333.1 innings with 210 strikeouts. He led the league in innings pitched in both 2001 and 2003.



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