FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5-21-01

Three AASU Baseball Players Earn All-South Atlantic Region Honors

SAVANNAH, Ga. – Senior pitcher B.J. Brinkmeier, junior catcher David Harriman and junior outfielder Kirk Nordness were named to the 2001 All-South Atlantic Region Team by the National Association of Baseball Coaches (NABC) on Monday afternoon.

Brinkmeier earned second-team All-Region honors by going 8-3 with a 3.46 ERA and a Peach Belt Conference-leading 97 strikeouts in 101.1 innings pitched. His 97 strikeouts are the eighth-highest single season total in AASU baseball history and his career 170 strikeouts in two seasons at AASU are tied for eighth most ever as a Pirate.

Harriman posted a .346 batting average while leading the Pirates in home runs with nine and RBI with 53, earning second-team All-Region honors. Nordness led the Pirate regulars in hitting, posting a .392 average with five home runs and 44 RBI, also earning second-team All-Region honors.

The No. 15-ranked Pirates placed three players on the All-South Atlantic Region team for the first time since the 1998 season, when AASU had four players earn All-Region honors - catcher Andy Ysalgue, pitchers Jeremy Wedel and Sean Timmons and outfielder David Ruhr.

AASU finished the 2001 season with a 38-15 record and narrowly missed an NCAA Regionals berth, finishing fifth in the South Atlantic Region. The Pirates won at least 35 games for the 17^th time in the last 20 seasons and won a school-record 10 straight conference games in April.

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