Maness Named Preseason All-American By Sporting News
February 09, 2009 | Baseball
Feb. 9, 2009
GREENVILLE, N.C. - East Carolina sophomore Seth Maness (RHP) picked up his fifth preseason all-america honor after being named to the Sporting News 2009 College All-America Team.
In addition to his Sporting News honor, he has also been tabbed preseason second-team All-America by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) and Ping!Baseball, while taking home third-team honors from Louisville Slugger (Collegiate Baseball) and Recruitingcloser.com.
Maness' other preseason honors include: 2009 Conference USA preseason Pitcher-of-the-Year and first-team All C-USA (league's coaches), 2009 Brooks Wallace Player-of-the-Year Award Preseason Watch List (College Baseball Foundation) and first-team honors from Rivals.com.
The Pinehurst, N.C. native, who was named Conference USA Freshman-of-the-Year in 2008, had one of the best freshman seasons in school history after posting a 9-2 record with a 3.27 ERA and 81 strikeouts with just 20 walks in 98.1 pitched. Maness became just the second freshman in ECU history to win nine games following Mickey Britt's 1977 season.
Maness became one of the most decorated Pirates in school history after being named to seven All-America teams, five of those coming as a freshman. He joined former Pirate greats Cory Scott (2000) and Greg Bunn (2004) as the only players in school history to be selected to at least five all-america teams in the same season.
The Pirates will open the 2009 season on Feb. 20 when they square off against Monmouth at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium. First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m.
Preseason Player-of-the-Year
Chris Dominguez, Jr. 3B, Louisville
Preseason Pitcher-of-the-Year
Alex White, Jr., RHP, North Carolina
2009 College All-America Team
Dustin Ackley, Jr., 1B/OF, North Carolina
Josh Adams, So., 2B, Florida
Scott Bittle, Sr., RHP, Ole Miss
Tim Clubb, Jr., RHP, Missouri State
Kentrail Davis, So., OF, Tennessee
Blake Dean, Jr., OF, LSU
Chris Fetter, Sr., RHP, Michigan
Kyle Gibson, Jr., RHP, Missouri
Grant Green, Jr., SS, USC
Jedd Gyorko, So., SS, West Virginia
Chris Hernandez, So., LHP, Miami (Fla.)
Ryan Jackson, Jr., SS, Miami (Fla.)
Mike Leake, Jr., RHP, Arizona State
Ryan Lockwood, So., OF, USF
Tyler Lyons, Jr., LHP, Oklahoma State
Seth Maness, So., RHP, East Carolina
Mike Minor, Jr., LHP, Vanderbilt
Hunter Morris, So., 1B, Auburn
Andrew Oliver, Jr., LHP, Oklahoma State
Ryan Ortiz, Jr., C/1B, Oregon State
Eric Pettis, Jr., RHP, UC Irvine
Josh Phegely, Jr., C, Indiana
Connor Powers, Jr., 3B/1B, Mississippi State
Derek Smith, So., 1B, Charleston Southern
Angelo Songco, Jr., OF, Loyola Marymount
Jason Stoffel, Jr., RHP, Arizona
Stephen Strasburg, Jr., RHP, San Diego State
Ben Tootle, Jr., RHP, Jacksonville State
Kendal Volz, Jr., RHP, Baylor
Scott Woodward, So., 3B/OF, Coastal Carolina
