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May 25, 2004
Schlabach, Thomas Earn Second-Team Horizon League Honors
Youngstown -- Senior Kendall
Schlabach and sophomore Justin
Thomas were named Second-Team
All-Horizon League at the
conference's postseason banquet
Tuesday night at the Byzantine
Center at the Grove.
Schlabach is hitting a team-best .316 and has scored 36 runs,
posted 11 doubles and has drawn 29
walks on the season.
He also posted an average of .305 and scored 14 runs
against Horizon League opponents.
The senior earned all-conference
honors for the fourth time in his
career as he was a first-team
selection his first two seasons and
earned second-team accolades as a
junior.
Thomas has been Youngstown State's top starter all season as
he has turned in a team-best six
wins in 79 1/3 innings pitched.
The southpaw picked up wins against
conference foes Butler and
Illinois-Chicago and posted a 3.32
ERA with 33 strikeouts in 38 innings
against Horizon League opponents.
He also defeated Missouri, Wofford,
Mid-American Conference champion
Central Michigan and IPFW.
UW-Milwaukee junior Ben Stanczyk was the first player in
Horizon League history to earn
Player-of-the-Year and
Pitcher-of-the-Year honors in the
same season. Detroit's Charlie
Anderson was named the
Newcomer-of-the-Year while Wright
State's Ron NIschwitz and Jay Murphy
of Cleveland State shared the
Coach-of-the-Year honors.
The Penguins will play Butler in the opening round of the
Horizon League Tournament on
Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at Eastwood
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