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GEORGETOWN, Texas - Three days removed from the SCAC Baseball Championships hosted by Southwestern University, juniors Hunter Owen, Hunter Abrams and Brandon Ingram were recognized for their individual efforts by garnering 2007 All-SCAC Tournament Team accolades along with eight other student-athletes.
For the first time since the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) began naming an all-tournament baseball team in 1998, there are no repeat winners from the prior year, with Abrams being the lone repeat winner for Millsaps from his freshman year in 2005.
Owen was a unanimous selection along with Austin's Patrick Ray, batting .571 (8-for-14) for the Majors with a tournament-best four doubles and eight RBIs. He is now Millsaps' new single-season record holder, passing Kirk Kinard with 23 doubles. The junior outfielder also tabbed 12 total bases, five walks, three runs scored and two stolen bases.
Abrams picked up four hits on the weekend in 14 at-bats (.286), grabbing five total bases, three RBIs, three runs and one double. Abrams made his prescence felt on the defensive side, picking up 12 assists against only one error at third base.
Ingram, the right-hander from Petal, went 1-0 with a 1.17 ERA including eight strikeouts and a save, turning in his best night on the mound for the season by far in an 11-1 (7) complete game win over No. 25 Rhodes. Less than two hours after tossing the final 2/3 in a 12-10 win over Southwestern to earn the save and keep the Majors' title hopes alive, Ingram scattered seven strikeouts, seven hits and one earned run in a 10-run rule win.
Austin was rewarded with five selections to the 11-member all-tournament team with Millsaps receiving three, Rhodes receiving two and the host, Southwestern, receiving one.
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