Friday, April 27th, 2007

Spedale & Burgess Named To GSAC Baseball All-Conference Team

The Great South Athletic Conference year-end baseball awards were announced this afternoon and Piedmont College was well-represented. The Lions placed two players on the All-Conference and All-Freshman Teams and had five representatives on the league's All-Academic Team.

Junior Cole Spedale was named to the All-Conference Team as a shortstop while sophomore Matt Burgess was named an All-Conference pitcher. Josh McEachin and Spencer Shelton were named to the Great South All-Freshman Team while Matt Devito, Andy House, Spedale, John Vohlken, and Jared Vermilya were named to the league's All-Academic Team.

Spedale led the Lions offense this season hitting .363 with 26 stolen bases while Burgess went 4-2 on the mound including an impressive 3-0 in conference action.