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Jason Engleman |
Jared Noteboom |
Jason Engleman and Jared Noteboom have been named to the honorable mention list of the 2009 NAIA All-America Baseball Team.
Engleman, a senior catcher from Hawarden, Iowa, was named the 2009 GPAC Player of the Year earlier this spring. He slugged a school-record 16 home runs this season to shatter the former Morningside standard of 12 home runs by Chris Losett in 2005. Engleman, who batted .369 with 12 doubles, one triple, and 57 RBIs, also led the Mustangs with a .722 slugging percentage. His 57 RBIs was the fourth highest single-season total in Morningside history.
Engleman got off to a torrid start this season when he slugged six home runs in the Mustangs’ first six games and hit .512 through the season’s first 12 games. He connected for two home runs in a game on four different occasions.
Noteboom, a junior second baseman from South Sioux City, Neb., slugged a school-record 22 doubles to break the former Morningside single-season record of 18 by Juan Matta in 2002 and by Losett and Dalton Meyers in 2005. Noteboom batted .366 with one triple, 12 home runs, and a team-high 60 RBIs for the third highest single-season RBI total in school history. His 12 home runs was the second highest single-season mark in the Mustangs’ record book. Noteboom ranked second on the team with 15 stolen bases.
Morningside posted a 31-25 record during the 2009 season and finished sixth in the GPAC standings with a 13-11 league mark.
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 Jason Engleman and Mark Martindale have been named Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes in the sport of baseball.
Engleman, a senior catcher from Hawarden, Iowa, has a 3.59 cumulative grade point average (GPA) with a major in elementary education.
Martindale, a senior shortstop from South Sioux City, Neb., has a 3.54 cumulative GPA with a major in business administration.
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Wade Morrison |
Morningside College broke five school records and tied another during the 2009 baseball season.
The Mustangs’ most prolific record setter was Wade Morrison, a junior pitcher from Arroyo Grande, Calif., who broke a record with 76.2 innings pitched and tied another with eight victories. Morrison’s innings pitched total broke the former Morningside single-season record of 73.2 innings by Grant Aschinger in 2005. His eight victories tied a record previously set by Kirt Bennett in 1988, Joel Rosacker in 2002, and Heath Horsley in 2004.
Morrison was the Mustangs’ ace with an 8-3 record and a team-leading 2.35 earned run average. He completed six of his 12 starts and pitched a team-high three shutouts. Morrison allowed only 50 hits in his 76.2 innings and held the opposition to a paltry .192 batting average. Morrison also topped the Mustangs’ pitching staff with 64 strikeouts for the third highest single-season total in Morningside history.
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Jason Engleman, a senior catcher from Hawarden, Iowa, has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Player of the Year and Wade Morrison, a senior pitcher from Arroyo Grande, Calif., is the Hauff Mid-America Sports/GPAC Pitcher of the Year to highlight the selections on the 2009 All-GPAC Baseball Team as selected by the league’s head coaches.
Engleman and Morrison are joined on the All-GPAC First-Team by Mustang teammates Bret Hoch, a junior outfielder from South Sioux City, Neb.; Jared Noteboom, a junior second baseman from South Sioux City; and Gabe Shockman, a junior pitcher from Fargo, N.D.
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Jason Engleman |
Wade Morrison |
Jason Engleman, a senior catcher from Hawarden, Iowa, received the Most Valuable Player Award and Wade Morrison, a junior pitcher from Arroyo Grande, Calif., received the Most Valuable Pitcher Award at Morningside College’s baseball awards banquet on Tuesday.
Engleman has blasted a school-record 16 home runs this season to break the former Morningside single-season standard of 12 home runs by Chris Losett in 2005. Engleman is hitting .374 with 12 doubles, one triple, and 57 RBIs. He leads the team with a .737 slugging percentage.
Morrison is the ace of the Mustangs’ pitching staff with an 8-2 record with three shutouts and a 2.42 earned run average. His eight victories are tied for the Morningside single-season record of eight wins previously set by Kirt Bennett in 1988, Joel Rosacker in 2002, and Heath Horsley in 2004. Morrison, who has five complete games in 11 starts, has allowed only 48 hits in 70.2 innings pitched and has held the opposition to a .198 batting average. He has 24 walks and 59 strikeouts.
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 Wade Morrison, a junior from Arroyo Grande, Calif., has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Baseball Pitcher of the Week for April 20-26.
Morrison pitched a two-hit shutout with three walks and seven strikeouts in a 7-0 victory against Mount Marty College for his second straight shutout. The win was Morrison’s eighth victory of the season to tie a Morningside single-season record for victories previously set by Kirt Bennett in 1988, Joel Rosacker in 2002, and Heath Horsley in 2004.
He had pitched a one-hitter in a 2-0 win against the University of Sioux Falls the previous week.
Morningside, 31-23, will face Hastings College in the opening round of the GPAC Tournament on Thursday at 9 a.m. in Hastings, Neb.
 Morningside is picked No. 1 in the GPAC coaches' 2009 pre-season poll.
The Mustangs received six of the 13 first place votes to top the poll with 137 points. Briar Cliff is second with 133 points and defending champion Northwestern is third with 120 points.
Morningside posted a 32-17 record in 2008 and won the GPAC's post-season tournament to qualify for the NAIA Region III Tournament as the No. 1 seed.
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