Players Named Scholar-Athletes
McPherson, KS - June 04, 2008 - Central Christian College is proud to announce that the NAIA has named Brandon Dicks, Jake Mays, and Cameron Singhisen (all Juniors) as 2008 Daktronics-NAIA Baseball Scholar-Athletes.
The scholar-athlete program recognizes excellence in the classroom while competing in the sport of baseball and is handed out annually to the most outstanding student-athletes in the NAIA. This year's list contains a 190 student-athletes.
The criteria for the award is as follows: receipient must be a junior or above in academic standing, have a cumulative 3.5 GPA or better on a 4.0 scale and have been in attendance at the nominating institution for one full academic year.
Dicks, Mays, and Singhisen were also named 2008 National Christian College Baseball Scholar-Athletes, and 2008 MCAC All-Conference Scholar-Athletes. The Tiger Baseball program as a whole boasted an overall culative average of over 3.0 for the spring 2008 semester.
Catcher Jake
Mays Earns Post Season Honors
Sophomore
catcher, Jake Mays just keeps raking in the honors after an outstanding
season at Central Christian College. He was selected by the
region NCCAA coaches as the 1st team All-Region catcher! Jake
threw out 32 runners attempting to steal this spring, had a fielding %
of .980 and had only one pass ball in the 41 games he caught! "He
is in a class all by himself and he worked hard in the offseason to
improve his pop time and his bat speed," according to 1st year head
coach Bob Marsh. Mays improved his average by over 40 points in
the last three weeks of the season against the toughest opponents on
the schedule and finished hitting .291 and led the team in stolen bases
with 13 stolen bases. Mays has been also
named MCAC All-conference 1st team catcherand MCAC Scholar
All-conference.
Players
Named MCAC ALL CONFERENCE