University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
Coles Named To All-South Central Region First Team For Second Straight Year
6/12/2003 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Coles
Named To All-South Central Region First Team For Second
Straight Year
Thursday, June
12, 2003
MOBILE, Ala. - Louisiana's Ragin'
Cajuns baseball outfielder Corey Coles was one of five
players to repeat as first-team selections for the 2003
American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings All-South
Central Region Team announced on Tuesday.
Coles, a member of the 2003 first team, was a member of the first team in 2002.
First team members are now eligible for All-America status.
The Lafayette native and Comeaux High School product, a 2002 and 2003 All-Sun Belt Conference First Team performer for the Cajuns, led the Cajuns with a .371 batting average in 2003 and also had four saves and a 3.38 ERA to his credit.
He led the Cajuns in hitting for the second straight season in 2003. He became the first player since Papo Ramos in 1991 and 1992 to lead the Cajuns in batting average in consecutive seasons (hit .368 as a sophomore).
Coles had 89 hits, which rank third all-time in a single season, and combined with his 85 hits as a sophomore total 174 over two years after spending his freshman season as a pitcher only.
Coles had 18 doubles, seven triples and nine home runs to give him 34 extra base hits in 2003. He had a .617 slugging percentage and stole 13 bases in 15 attempts.
Fielding-wise, he committed just two errors over 140 chances in the field for a .986 fielding percentage.
In conference play only, he hit .427 with a .748 slugging percentage.
The South Central Region is comprised of 33 schools. Among the conferences represented are the Sun Belt (7 teams), Southland (10), Southwestern Athletic 10), Atlantic Sun (1), Conference USA (1) and the Western Athletic (1). The region also includes three independent programs (Centenary, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Texas-Pan American. Head coaches in the region selected the two teams.
Fourteen players were chosen for the first team and 12 on the second team.
Southern University led the way with four selections. Lamar, Houston and South Alabama each had three.
Below is a list of the first and second all-region squads.
FIRST TEAM:
Pitcher: Brandon Hankins (Southwest Texas)
Pitcher: Brad Sullivan (Houston)
Pitcher: Jesse Floyd (Lamar)
Relief Pitcher: Ryan Wagner (Houston)
Catcher: Andrew Kasparek (Sam Houston State)
First Base: Humberto Aguilar (Texas A&M-CC)
Second Base: Rickie Weeks (Southern)
Third Base: Ryan Roberts (Texas Arlington)
Shortstop: Chuck Hickman (Nicholls State)
Designated Hitter: John Allen (Lamar)
Outfielder: Ryan Mulhern (South Alabama)
Outfielder: Ricardo Nanita (Florida International)
Outfielder: Jordan Foster (Lamar)
Outfielder: Corey Coles (Louisiana-Lafayette)
SECOND TEAM:
Pitchers: Josh Banks (Florida International), Clark
Girardeau (South Alabama), Dewon Day (Southern) Relief
Pitcher: Matt Wilhite (Western Kentucky)
Catcher: Rick Guarno (Arkansas-Little Rock)
First Base: Kevin Vital (Southern)
Second Base: Chris Taylor (Texas Arlington)
Third Base: Hyung Cho (Houston)
Shortstop: Brett Parker (South Alabama)
Designated Hitter: Justin Klinger (Samford)
Outfielders: Josh Boop (Northwestern State), Andrew
Touissant (Southern)
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