Brown Earns 2017 ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove Award
MARS HILL, N.C. – Junior pitcher Zac Brown of the Lions baseball team has been named to the 2017 ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove Team for the Division II level.
MARS HILL, N.C. – Junior pitcher Zac Brown of the Lions baseball team has been named to the 2017 ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove Team for the Division II level.
Brown led Mars Hill with a 6-3 record, including one save and one complete game. Over his 83.2 innings pitched he amassed 81 strikeouts against only 20 walks. Brown gave up 33 earned runs to boast an impressive 3.55 earned run average. Brown also contributed six putouts and 23 assists on 29 total chances for a 1.000 fielding percentage.
The 2017 ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove Teams have been released by the American Baseball Coaches Association and Rawlings Sporting Goods in nine divisions of amateur baseball, from NCAA Div. I to High School. The Rawlings Gold Glove winners have been selected since 2007 in the collegiate and high school ranks, featuring many future Major League Baseball players.
The ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove Awards are selected by ABCA coaches committees at each level: NCAA Divisions I, II and III, NAIA, NJCAA Divisions I, II and III, Pacific Association Division, and High School.
The ABCA/Rawlings Award Program is one of the most comprehensive in all of sports, awarding All-America Teams and Gold Glove Teams in nine divisions of amateur baseball as well as All-Region Teams in five divisions.
The ABCA/Rawlings All-America teams date back to 1949 starting with one collegiate All-America Team. Other divisions subsequently added until the current total of nine was reached. The first ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove teams were recognized in 2007, making this the 11th year the Rawlings Gold Glove Awards have been presented in the collegiate and high school ranks.
The ABCA, founded in 1945, is the primary professional organization for baseball coaches at the amateur level. Its over 8,000 members represent all 50 states and 25 countries. Since its initial meeting of 27 college baseball coaches in June 1945, Association membership has broadened to include eight divisions: NCAA Division I, II and III, NAIA, NJCAA, Pacific Association Division, High School and Youth. The 74th annual ABCA Convention will be held Jan. 4-7, 2018 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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