Coleman Named Big 12 Freshman of Year, Six Tigers Earn All-Conference
5/22/2007 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
May 22, 2007
Mizzou freshman Trevor Coleman has been named the Big 12 Conference Freshman of the Year, as announced by the league on Tuesday. Also earning conference honors were All-Big 12 First Team selections Jacob Priday and Aaron Crow, All-Big 12 Second Team honoree Evan Frey and honorable mention selections Kyle Gibson, Rick Zagone and Kyle Mach.
Coleman is the first Missouri player to earn the Big 12 Freshman of the Year award. He is hitting .295 on the season and is second on the Tigers with eight home runs. Six of his eight home runs have come in Big 12 games.
Priday's award is his third All-Big 12 honor and his second selection to the first team. Priday leads Mizzou with nine home runs and has a .301 batting average. He has a .330 average in conference play and is hitting .414 over the last 17 games, with seven home runs and 28 RBI over that stretch.
Crow has a 2.62 ERA, which ranks sixth in the Big 12 Conference. He has 75 strikeouts in 103 innings pitched and is 8-2 on the year. He has a 2.77 ERA in conference play, including a complete game against Texas A&M. Crow picked up his eighth win of the year last week as matched a career-high with nine strikeouts in seven innings pitched against Oklahoma State.
Frey, who earned All-Big 12 honorable mention last year, has a team-best .347 average on the year, which is 12th best in the conference. He is hitting .357 in Big 12 games, which also ranks 12th in the league. His five triples on the year are second most in the Big 12.
Gibson has recorded seven wins (7-3 record) and has seven saves on the year. Zagone is 6-2 on the season, which included a one-hit complete game shutout against Kansas State. That outing earned him Big 12 and National Pitcher of the Week. Mach is second on the squad with a .308 average and hit .321 over the final 40 games of the season.
The Tigers will be the No. 2 seed in this week's Big 12 Conference Championship, which will begin on Wednesday at Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City, Okla. Missouri will take on Oklahoma at 5 p.m. on Wednesday in its first game of the tournament.
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