All Socon Team

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Coaches All-SoCon Team Announced
Courtesy: Southern Conference
Release: 05/23/2007









Courtesy: Western Carolina Athletics

Western Carolina second baseman Kenny Smith was voted the league's Player of the Year by the conference coaches

Western Carolina second baseman Kenny Smith was named the Southern Conference Player of the Year and College of Charleston’s Nick Chigges was honored as the league’s Pitcher of the Year in a vote of the conference coaches. Smith batted .412 with 18 home runs and 79 RBIs. Chigges posted an 11-0 record this season with a 2.63 earned run average. The Citadel’s Richard Jones, who batted .331 with 12 home runs and 55 RBIs was selected the league’s Freshman of the Year and College of Charleston Coach John Pawlowski, who led the Cougars to a first-place tie and the top seed in the SoCon Tournament, was tabbed the league’s Coach of the Year. College of Charleston finished the regular season with a 39-17 mark including a 20-7 record in conference play.



College of Charleston had seven players named to either the first-team or second-team all-conference squad while regular-season co-champion Western Carolina landed six players on the all-league teams including five first-teamers. The Citadel had four players honored and Appalachian State had two players named to the teams while Davidson, Elon, Georgia Southern, UNC Greensboro and Wofford had one player each named first-team or second-team All-Southern Conference.



Coaches All-Southern Conference Team

Player of the Year – Kenny Smith (Western Carolina)

Pitcher of the Year – Nick Chigges (College of Charleston)

Freshman of the Year – Richard Jones (The Citadel)

Coach of the Year – John Pawlowski (College of Charleston)



First Team

C- Blake Murphy (Western Carolina)

1B- Zach Brown (The Citadel)

2B- Kenny Smith (Western Carolina)

3B – Brandon Waring (Wofford)

SS – Oliver Marmol (College of Charleston)

OF – Michael Harrington (College of Charleston)

OF – Barrett Shaft (Western Carolina)

OF – David Rubinstein (Appalachian State)

DH – Rob Wilson (Davidson)

SP – Nick Chigges (College of Charleston

SP – Drew Saberhagen (Western Carolina)

RP – Greg Holland (Western Carolina)



Second Team

C – Alex Garabedian (College of Charleston)

1B – Graham Maiden (College of Charleston)

2B – Chris Campbell (College of Charleston)

3B – Ben Lasater (College of Charleston)

SS – Jason Altenhof (Appalachian State)

OF – Chris Swauger (The Citadel)

OF – Steven Strausbaugh (Western Carolina)

OF – Sonny Meade (The Citadel)

DH – Richard Jones (The Citadel)

SP – Steven Hensley (Elon)

SP – Ryan Falcon (UNC Greensboro)

RP – A.J. Battisto (Georgia Southern)