Baseball Earns Five All-State Honors

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Five Shenandoah University baseball players were honored Tuesday with All-State selections in picked announced by the Virginia Sports Information Directors Association.

Freshman Cory Nelson was picked as the VaSID Rookie of the Year and Head Coach Kevin Anderson earned Coach of the Year honors while Scott Lambert, Kevin Brashears and Greg Van Sickler all earned first-team honors.

Junior Jesse Henry, at shortstop, rounded out the honorees by being named second-team All-State.

Nelson, a freshman from Portsmouth, Va., hit .346 with 54 hits, 47 runs, eight home runs and 44 RBI. He was an ABCA All-Region choice and was also named All-USA South Conference. Nelson was selected to the Salisbury Regional All-Tournament team and was named USA South Rookie Player or Pitcher of the Week three times. In addition to his production at the plate, Nelson was 1-0 on the mound with seven strikeouts in 11 innings pitched.

Anderson led the Hornets to a 38-10 record, setting a new school record for wins in a season as his squad finished the year ranked sixth in the nation by the ABCA. He was named the 2009 ABCA South Region Coach of the Year as he guided SU to its first ever NCAA World Series appearance.

The complete team:

First Team			Second Team
Player	School	Pos.	Player	School
Scott Lambert	Shenandoah	C	C.J. Rhoades	VA Wesleyan
Jonathon Dehoux	Apprentice	1B	Mike Marion	VA Wesleyan
Phil Cadle	VA Wesleyan	2B	Jordan Watkins	Lynchburg
Matt Brown	Hampden-Sydney	3B	Parker Neal	CNU
Trae Bailey	CNU	SS	Jesse Henry	Shenandoah
Kevin Brashears	Shenandoah	OF	Chris Harpine	Eastern Mennonite
Mike Giarrizzi	CNU	OF	Jeff Taylor	Lynchburg
Terrence McKelvey	Washington & Lee	OF	Mike Lenox	Bridgewater
Greg Van Sickler	Shenandoah	UTL	Herbie Williams	Hampden-Sydney
Cory Nelson	Shenandoah	DH	Michael Romett	CNU
Joe Devlin	Lynchburg	P	Josh Brinkman	CNU
Conner Thompson	Lynchburg	P	Andrew Cox	Mary Washington