Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Jake Baldwin Named GSAC Co-Player Of The Year

Piedmont College men's basketball player Jake Baldwin highlighted the Lions honorees in the Great South Athletic Conference men's basketball year-end honors as the junior forward was named the league's Co-Player of the Year. Baldwin shared the conference's top honor with Bobby Golden of Maryville.

Joining Baldwin on the All-Conference team was teammate Michael Adams. Freshman Michael Rubio was also honored with a spot on the league's All-Freshman team.

For the fourth consecutive season, Piedmont placed the most players on the league's All-Academic team as Baldwin, Drew Bailey, Wes Parker, and Tyler Whitlock each garnered the distinction.

Baldwin led the GSAC in both scoring (23.7 ppg) and rebounding (9.0 rpg). Additionally, he tallied 11 double-doubles on the season and is currently seventh nationally in NCAA Division-III scoring.

Adams is the team's second leading scorer at 15.0 points per game which was good for fifth in the league. He finished the regular-season as the league's second leading three-point shooter with 56 on the year.

Rubio averaged 5.9 points per game this season and 7.0 per game in the five conference games in which he played. The guard was the league's top scoring freshman in conference-only games.