13.Jun.2010 at 13 | UncleLar
Ben Heath Named PING!Baseball Second Team All-American
Heath named to second All-America team with numerous postseason honors still to be announced.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The awards and accolades continue to roll in for Penn State junior catcher Ben Heath (Huntersville, N.C.), who was named a PING!Baseball Second Team All-American on Friday. It already marks Heath’s second All-America honor, along with Louisville Slugger Second Team All-America laurels announced last week. The Houston Astros’s; fifth round draft pick finished a remarkable junior campaign with a school-record 19 home runs along with 57 RBI and a .369 batting average.
The honor rounds out a memorable week for Heath, who was selected by the Astros in the fifth round (#153 overall) of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft on Tuesday. In the process, he became the Nittany Lions’s; highest position player chosen since Greg Vogel in 1976 and the highest for an underclassman in school history.
via Ben Heath Named PING!Baseball Second Team All-American – PENN STATE OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE.
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