FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION DEPARTMENT<\/p>\n
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Fort Hays State landed seven players on the 2016 All-MIAA Baseball Team. Connor Ross earned second team honors in the outfield while Austin Unrein was a third team selection at utility. Honorable mention selections went to Alex Weiss (3B), Giles Fox (RP), Nick Hammeke (SS), Caleb Cherryholmes (OF), and Joe Mapes (DH).<\/p>\n
Ross earned All-MIAA honors for the second straight year after an honorable mention selection last year. Ross led the team in extra-base hits this year with 26, which included 14 doubles, four triples, and eight home runs. He scored a team-high 50 runs and had 41 RBI while ranking third on the team in batting average at .361. Ross started all 49 games in the outfield for FHSU.<\/p>\n
Unrein earned All-MIAA Third Team honors at utility for the second straight year. Unrein was right there with Ross in offensive production, ranking second on the team in batting average (.362) and extra-base hits (25). He finished with a team-high 15 doubles while adding nine home runs and a triple. He also led the team in RBI with 47. On the mound, Unrein was an asset in late relief finishing with two saves and a win. He had a 4.80 ERA with 13 strikeouts in 15 innings pitched. Unrein started every game in the Tiger lineup, primarily at first base, and made nine appearances in relief.<\/p>\n
Weiss led the team in batting average his first year with the Tigers, earning honorable mention honors at third base. He batted .367 with seven doubles, four home runs, 40 RBI, and 36 runs scored. He started all 49 games for the season.<\/p>\n
Fox served as the team’s closer for the majority of the season, earning six saves in his final year to grab an honorable mention selection. He added a 2-1 record with a 4.71 ERA, striking out nearly one batter per inning with 28 in 28.2 innings pitched. He tied for a team-high 18 appearances out of the bullpen.<\/p>\n
Hammeke earned the first all-conference honor of his career at shortstop. The junior had a team-best 14 game hitting streak and reached base safely in 29 consecutive games at one point in the season. He started all 49 games and finished with a .285 batting average, along with 10 doubles, one home run, 25 RBI, and 30 runs scored to garner the honorable mention selection.<\/p>\n
Cherryholmes earned his first all-conference nod as a Tiger, grabbing an honorable mention selection in the outfield. Cherryholmes finished the year with a .328 batting average, nine doubles, eight home runs, 37 RBI, and 44 runs scored. He was hit by pitches 17 times, pushing his career total as a Tiger to 39 to rank second in school history for a career. He started all 48 games he played this year.<\/p>\n
Mapes earned an honorable mention selection at designated hitter. Primarily a pitcher for the first two years of his career, Mapes helped the Tigers at the plate this year by hitting .335 with eight doubles, a team-high 11 home runs, 45 RBI, and 33 runs scored. He led the team in on-base percentage (.445), helped by a team-high 30 walks for the season. He played in 47 games and started 46.<\/p>\n
Below is the 2016 All-MIAA Baseball Team<\/p>\n
Player of the Year: David Gauntt, Sr, C, Washburn
\nPitcher of the Year: Nick Silva, Jr., P, Washburn
\nFreshman of the Year: Zach Parish, P, Northeastern State
\nCoach of the Year: Kyle Crookes, Central Missouri<\/p>\n
First Team All-MIAA
\nPitcher: Ethan Westphal, Jr., Central Missouri^
\nPitcher: Tyler Stubblefield, Jr., Emporia State^
\nPitcher: Payton Walker, Sr., Missouri Southern^
\nPitcher: Nick Silva, Jr., Washburn^
\nRelief Pitcher: Grant Gavin, Jr., Central Missouri
\nCatcher: David Gauntt, Sr., Washburn
\nFirst Base: Evan Koehler, Sr., Emporia State
\nSecond Base: David Glaude, Jr., Missouri Western
\nShortstop: Landon Mason, Jr., Missouri Western
\nThird Base: Kyle Carnahan, Sr., Washburn
\nOutfield: Landon Eason, Jr., Central Oklahoma
\nOutfield: Dalton Wheat, Sr., Emporia State
\nOutfield: Wes Degner, So., Lindenwood
\nDesignated Hitter: Jesse Rall, Sr., Missouri Southern
\nUtility: Jon Kamies, Jr., Central Oklahoma
\n^=Four pitchers due to tie in the voting<\/p>\n
Second Team All-MIAA Third Team All-MIAA Honorable Mention Relief Pitcher: Lucas Williams, Central Missouri; Gibson Russ, Central Oklahoma; Giles Fox, Fort Hays State<\/strong>; Preston Bailey, Missouri Western; John Watson, Nebraska-Kearney; Zack Hammock, Northeastern State; Carson Smith, Northwest Missouri; Greg Mason, Washburn; Jaren Kutzke, Washburn.<\/p>\n Catcher: Ryan Sosnowski, Lindenwood; Hunter Hisky, Southwest Baptist.<\/p>\n First Base: Mike Ehrhard, Lindenwood; Kyle Honeycutt, Nebraska-Kearney; Bryce Davenport, Northeastern State; Kevin Handzlik, Northwest Missouri.<\/p>\n Second Base: Jacob Bryant, Missouri Southern; Matt Salamon, Nebraska-Kearney; Charles Sims, Northeastern State; Ozzie Adams, Northwest Missouri<\/p>\n Shortstop: Levi Ashmore, Emporia State; Nick Hammeke, Fort Hays State<\/strong>; Shane Sharkey, Nebraska-Kearney; Sean Murley, Southwest Baptist.<\/p>\n Third Base: Daniel LaMunyon, Emporia State; Alex Weiss, Fort Hays State<\/strong>; Jacob Boylan, Pittsburg State.<\/p>\n Outfield: Dylan Farrell, Central Missouri; Derek Cornell, Central Missouri; Matt Elliott, Central Missouri; Caleb Cherryholmes, Fort Hays State<\/strong>; Mike Million, Lincoln; Mason Price, Lincoln; Drew Quinones, Lindenwood; Kody Matthews, Missouri Western; Pate Katechis, Nebraska-Kearney; Cody Begovich, Northeastern State; Christian Arnold, Pittsburg State; Jeff Bouchard, Southwest Baptist.<\/p>\n Designated Hitter: Joe Mapes, Fort Hays State<\/strong>; Brandon Downs, Missouri Western; Dallas Schramm, Nebraska-Kearney.<\/p>\n Utility: Orencio Fisher, Missouri Western; Lance Barkley, Washburn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION DEPARTMENT KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Fort Hays State landed seven players on the 2016 All-MIAA Baseball Team. Connor Ross earned second team… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4540,7349],"tags":[6818,9497,9871,4771,4767,4713,106,4769,4794,4772],"class_list":["post-26891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-sports","category-sports","tag-roartigers","tag-alex-weiss","tag-all-miaa-baseball-team","tag-austin-unrein","tag-caleb-cherryholmes","tag-fhsu-baseball","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-giles-fox","tag-joe-mapes","tag-nick-hammeke"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26893,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26891\/revisions\/26893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPitcher: Carlos D’Armas, Sr., Central Missouri
\nPitcher: Connor Law, Jr., Lindenwood
\nPitcher: Zach Parish, Fr., Northeastern State
\nRelief Pitcher: Garrett Brummett, Sr., Emporia State
\nCatcher: Eric Kirkpatrick, Sr., Northeastern State
\nFirst Base: Bennett Oliver, Sr., Central Missouri
\nSecond Base: Christian Binger, Sr., Southwest Baptist
\nShortstop: Nathan Prindle, Sr., Lindenwood
\nThird Base: Caleb Sneed, So., Southwest Baptist
\nOutfield: Connor Ross, Sr., Fort Hays State<\/strong>
\nOutfield: Chris Hoffman, Sr., Missouri Southern
\nOutfield: Nick Gawley, Jr., Missouri Western
\nDesignated Hitter: Jake Alexander, Sr., Central Missouri*
\nDesignated Hitter: Isaac Hellbusch, Sr., Central Oklahoma*
\nUtility: Richie Gorski, Jr., Missouri Southern
\n*=Two designated hitters due to tie in the voting<\/p>\n
\nPitcher: Daulton Leiker, Sr., Central Oklahoma
\nPitcher: Richard Peoples, Jr., Missouri Western
\nPitcher: Anthony Caenepeel, Jr., Northwest Missouri
\nRelief Pitcher: Nikko Pablo, Jr., Northwest Missouri
\nCatcher: Matt Smith, Jr., Missouri Southern
\nFirst Base: Andrew Vogelbaugh, So., Pittsburg State
\nSecond Base: Jake Dyer, So., Central Oklahoma
\nShortstop: Riley Krane, Jr., Washburn
\nThird Base: Jeremy Alvarado, Jr., Missouri Western
\nOutfield: Wade Hanna, Jr., Emporia State
\nOutfield: Tyler Sutherland, Jr., Missouri Southern
\nOutfield: Parker Gibson, Sr., Washburn
\nDesignated Hitter: Derek Francis, Sr., Emporia State
\nUtility: Austin Unrein, Sr., Fort Hays State<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPitcher: Tyler House, Central Missouri; Jordan Plank, Emporia State; Brendan Feldmann, Lindenwood; Brendan Kleekamp, Lindenwood; Cody Hutchinson, Missouri Southern; Evan Jones, Missouri Western; Alex Clavet, Missouri Western; George Brandecker, Pittsburg State.<\/p>\n