Coastal Carolina players obtained top individual awards and have eight named All-Big South:
After winning its sixth straight Big South regular season baseball championship, Coastal Carolina was honored with four of the league’s five top individual awards – Player of the Year Daniel Bowman, Co-Pitcher of the Year Aaron Burke, Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year Tucker Frawley and Coach of the Year Gary Gilmore– and placed eight on the All-Big South team, including first team picks Bowman, Burke, Frawley and Rich Witten as well as second team selections Alex Buccilli, Ryan Connolly, Josh Conway, and Tyler Herb.
This marks the 11th time a Chanticleer has earned Big South Player of the Year and, since starting the award in 2007, the fifth time in six years a Chant has been voted Pitcher of the Year. Gilmore was named Big South Coach of the Year for the eighth time in his career.
Daniel Bowman, Big South Player of the Year
Bowman (Bridgewater, Va.) has set numerous Coastal Carolina records and is approaching some Big South marks as well. He is just the second player on the league history to amass 200 career RBI and 200 runs scored. Also, he is four hits shy of becoming the only player in Big South history with 200 RBI, 200 runs scored and 300 hits. He was the Big South Player of the Week twice and he earned the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association National Hitter of the Week once. Bowman had hit streaks of 11, nine and eight games, while having a team-best streak of 32-straight games of reaching base safely (by hit/walk/hit by pitch). He scored the game-winning run a team-best eight times and drove in the game winner on six occasions.
Through the regular season, Bowman ranks second in the league in overall batting average (.383) and he batted a league-best .400 in conference games only,. Overall, he was first in total bases (121), second in hits (82), second in triples (5), second in slugging percentage (.565), third in runs scored (52), fourth in on base percentage (.464), ninth in stolen bases (13) and 10th in RBI (38). Versus Big South competition, Bowman not only led the league in batting average, but he ranked first in hits (38), first in triples (4), second in total bases (58), third in runs scored (24), third in slugging percentage (.615), third in on base percentage (.467) and fifth in RBI (20).
