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 Junior left-handed pitcher Tyler Sexton was today named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District 3 first team. |
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May 11, 2007
Cullowhee, N.C. - Western Carolina left-handed junior Tyler Sexton was today named to the first team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District III team as released by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Sexton is automatically included on the Academic All-America ballot which will be voted on May 15.
Sexton (7-2) currently leads Western with seven victories on the season, tied for fourth in the Southern Conference. His 3.96 earned run average ranks seventh in the league, while his 64 strikeouts rank eighth. Sexton, last week's SoCon Pitcher of the Week, has tossed back-to-back complete games, tallying a five-hit complete game shutout last Friday against arch-rival Appalachian State.
In the classroom, the transfer from Campbell University boasts a 3.98 grade point average while majoring in Sport Management with a minor in Coaching. Earlier this season, he was tabbed the SoCon TIAA-CREF Student-Athlete of the Week for his accomplishments both on and off the field.
To be nominated for the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District team, a student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.20 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) for his/her career. No athlete is eligible until he/she has reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at his/her current institution (thus, true freshmen, red-shirt freshmen and ineligible transfers are not eligible). In the cases of transfers, graduate students and junior college graduates, the athlete must have completed one full academic year at the nominating institution to be eligible.
Fresh off two mid-week road non-conference wins over Ohio State, Western Carolina (34-15, 15-6 SoCon) returns to Southern Conference play on Friday as the Catamounts visit the Wofford Terriers for a three-game set in Spartanburg. Sexton is scheduled to take the hill for WCU on Friday in a 6:00 pm start, with red-shirt sophomore LHP Drew Saberhagen and sophomore RHP Corey Martin the probable starters for Saturday and Sunday's 1:00 pm first pitch.
The Catamount Sports Network, which has offered radio broadcasts of each Catamount road game since mid-March, will provide coverage of Sunday's game ONLY in order to cover the WCU Softball team, which advanced to the SoCon Softball Tournament semifinals in the winner's bracket on Thursday evening. Sunday's coverage will begin at 12:45 pm and can be heard in Western North Carolina on WWCU-FM, Power 90dot5 in Cullowhee, or online at www.WWCUFM.com.
