SEWANEE, Ga. – In exclusive 2008 all-Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) voting by the league's head coaches, Hunter Owen of Millsaps College was named the Offensive Player of the Year for a second-straight season and a total of six Majors were named to the All-SCAC team.

Owen, a junior outfielder from Jackson, Miss., hit .388 this season (eighth in the SCAC) and slugged a league-best .756. He led the SCAC in home runs (16 – a single-season school record and the third highest single-season total in league history), runs scored (61), total bases (121), walks (45) and on-base percentage (.546) and finished in the top four in the league in runs batted in (50 – tied for fourth) and stolen bases (23 – third).

At the 2008 Baseball Championships, Owen tied a SCAC tournament record with 12 hits and finished with a .600 batting average with two doubles, three home runs, seven RBIs and 11 runs scored. A consensus all-America selection last season as well as both the ABCA/Rawlings and NCBWA South Region Player-of-the-Year, Owen is the eighth different player from Millsaps to win the league's Offensive Player-of-the-Year. It is the 10th overall OPOTY award for a Millsaps player as Garner Wetzel (2005, 2006) and Owen (2007, 2008) both won the award twice.

Senior infielder Hunter Abrams, junior left-hander/outfielder Tait Hendrix and Owen were the three All-SCAC team selections, while Travis Bogue, Russ Boyd and Will Hawkins were named Honorable Mention.

An ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District VI First Team selection for a second-straight season, SCAC All-Tournament Team and Archie Lamb Sportsmanship Award winner (Millsaps), Abrams led the SCAC in hits, ranked third in RBIs and fourth in total bases en route to a .365 batting average, 22 multi-hit and 15 multi-RBI games. He is Millsaps' career-leader in hits (240), at-bats (664) and sacrifices (27), while ranking third all-time in RBIs (170) and fourth all-time in dboules (49) and total bases (324).

Hendrix had a solid year both from the plate (.317 BA) and on the hill (6-4, 3.31 ERA) where he gained All-SCAC honors as a pitcher. The junior from Jackson became just the second player in SCAC Tournament history to be selected as a position player and pitcher en route to 2008 All-Tourney Team honors, batting a clean .500 (10-for-20) and tossing a career-high 15 Ks in a complete game shutout of 19th-ranked DePauw.

Bogue, a senior from Madison and the SCAC Pitcher of the Week in Week 11, appeared in 17 games for the Majors with 10 starts, posting an 8-4 record and his first career save. The southpaw led the team in wins (t-fourth in single-season Millsaps history) and innings pitched (71.2) and tossed six or more strikeouts in six of his 10 starts.

A junior catcher from Columbus, Boyd posted 13 multi-hit and five multi-RBI games, while leading the team in doubles (16) and ranking fourth in hits (47) and walks (24). Boyd also cranked out four home runs and a triple and threw out seven runners in 41 attempts.

Hawkins, a freshman infielder from Nettleton who appeared in 31 games, ranked first amongst Millsaps freshmen in batting average (.346), doubles (nine), triples (two) and slugging percentage (.705), while posting seven multi-hit and five multi-RBI games.