Lipscomb's Martinez-McGraw Voted Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year
Lipscomb's Martinez-McGraw Voted Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year
Full Atlantic Sun Baseball Academic All-Conference Team
MACON, Ga. - The Atlantic Sun Conference awarded the 2015 A-Sun Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year award to Lipscomb's Ian Martinez-McGraw, announced Monday by the conference office. Martinez-McGraw is joined by 12 other baseball student-athletes on the Academic All-Conference Team.
Martinez-McGraw, a senior from Pueblo, Colo., has been one of the top starting pitchers in the conference this season for Lipscomb. He has compiled a 7-3 record in 86.2 innings pitched, while finishing second in the A-Sun with 14 starts. He allowed only 23 runs this season and finished in the top-five in the conference with a 2.39 ERA.
In the classroom, Martinez-McGraw carries a 3.68 cumulative GPA and graduated Cum Laude this spring from Lipscomb as a psychology major. In only two seasons with the Bisons, Martinez-McGraw established a .727 career win-loss percentage, tied for second best among active A-Sun pitchers. This season he totaled 53 strikeouts, including a new career-high seven earlier in the season against Quinnipiac.
The Academic All-Conference Team recognizes student-athletes who excel both on the field and in the classroom and exemplify the A-Sun's mission of Building Winners for Life. All the members of the team boast a 3.30 cumulative grade point average or better and participated in at least half of their team's games.
BASEBALL ACADEMIC ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM
- * Ian Martinez-McGraw, Lipscomb (Senior | 3.69 | Psychology)
- * Travis Bergen, Kennesaw State (Junior | 3.48 | Business Management)
- * Adam Lee, Lipscomb (Junior | 3.65 | Psychology)
- * Trent Higginbothem, North Florida (Senior | 3.50 | Health Science)
- * Patrick Mazeika, Stetson (Junior | 3.60 | Sport Business)
- Nathan Disch, Jacksonville (Sophomore | 3.90 | Accounting)
- Garrett Ruckel, Jacksonville (Senior | 3.79 | Mathematics)
- Taylor Allum, Kennesaw State (R-Freshman | 3.43 | Business Management)
- Jason Ziegler, Lipscomb (Senior | 3.71 | Corporate Marketing)
- Bryan Baker, North Florida (Sophomore | 3.66 | Chemistry)
- Garrick Ferguson, North Florida (Senior | 3.71 | Political Science)
- Cole Bauml, Northern Kentucky (Senior | 3.33 | Organizational Leadership)
- Erik Samples, USC Upstate (Senior | 3.45 | Economics Finance)
* - Denotes a unanimous selection
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