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James Madison University | Official Athletics Site
KULBACKI NAMED CAA BASEBALL PLAYER OF THE YEAR
5/23/2006 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
WILMINGTON, N.C., May 23, 2006 – James Madison University sophomore outfielder Kellen Kulbacki (Hershey, Pa./Hershey) has been named the 2006 Colonial Athletic Association Baseball Player of the Year. The award was presented Tuesday evening at the CAA Baseball Championship Banquet on the campus of UNC Wilmington. The league's head coaches voted on the award as well as the All-CAA squads and other individual honors.
Kulbacki was joined on the All-CAA first team by senior teammates Nate Schill (Audubon, N.J./Audubon) and Michael Cowgill (Lexington, Ky./Henry Clay). Sophomore right-handed pitcher Ryan Reid (Portland, Maine/Deering) was named to the All-CAA second team, and freshman right-hander Kurt Houck (Gilbertsville, Pa./Boyertown) was an All-Rookie selection.
Kulbacki, an outfielder, leads the CAA with a .473 batting average, .967 slugging percentage, a JMU record 23 home runs and is two RBIs shy of the JMU record with 73. He also ranks first in homers, slugging percentage, is tied for first in RBIs per game and is second in batting average among all players in Division I. He is a semifinalist for both the Dick Howser Trophy and Brooks Wallace Award.
Schill, named as the league's top first baseman, is second in the circuit with a .422 batting average while stroking 13 homers and 63 RBIs, all career-high marks. Cowgill was named as the second baseman after blasting 22 homers, which is tied for second nationally.
Reid struck out a JMU-record 117 batters while engineering a 9-4 record and 3.71 earned-run-average. Houck, who became a weekend starter during the last month of the season, is 2-2 with a 3.40 ERA and has twice this season shut out CAA foes for 6 2/3 innings in starting assignments.
Virginia Commonwealth sophomore shortstop Sergio Miranda was named the Defensive Player of the Year and Delaware's Alex Buchholz was named Rookie of the Year. Old Dominion's Jerry Meyers was the Coach of the Year.
The tournament opens Wednesday, May 24 when regular-season champion JMU meets sixth-seeded Georgia State in a noon start at UNCW's Brooks Field. The game will be broadcast live on JMUSports.com or fans can view for a fee via CAASports.com. Curt Dudley, JMU's baseball sports information director, will provide play-by-play for all of the Dukes' games as well as those games not involving VCU (unless its VCU-JMU) throughout the tournament.
Wednesday's other opening-round games will feature third-seeded Northeastern vs. fourth-seeded Virginia Commonwealth at 3:30 p.m., followed by host and fifth-seeded UNCW against second-seeded Old Dominion. The double-elimination tournament runs through Saturday.
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