University of Minnesota Athletics
Six Golden Gophers Receive All-Big Ten Honors
5/23/2007 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Six Golden Gophers Receive All-Big Ten Honors
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It marks the first time since 2004 that the Golden Gophers have had three First-Team All-Big Ten honorees. That year Andy Hunter, Glen Perkins and Sam Steidl collected the honors.
Senior reliever Josh Oslin (Mora,
Mee joined Purdue's Ryne White and
The .401 batting average is fourth in the Big Ten and the .470 on-base percentage is fifth in the conference. Mee is the first Golden Gopher to finish the regular-season with a .400 or better batting average since 1999, and only the fourth player since 1998 to finish the regular season at .400 or better.
Entering the Big Ten Tournament, Mee is fourth on the career hits list with 278, fifth on the career RBI list at 174, tied for ninth in doubles at 49 and ninth in runs at 181.
Hanson enters the Big Ten Tournament with a .351 batting average, 45 runs, 14 doubles, a team-leading nine home runs and team-best 48 RBI. He joins David Hrncirik as the second Golden Gopher in three years to earn First-Team All-Big Ten honors.
During the course of the year, Hanson had the first five-hit game by a Golden Gopher since 2003, became the first Golden Gopher to drive in seven runs in a game since 2002, had the fifth-longest hitting streak since 1998 at 16 and had two multiple home run games.
Nohelty enters the Big Ten Tournament with a .383 batting average, 45 runs, 21 stolen bases, 24 RBI and a .458 on-base percentage. Mee and Nohelty became the first pair of Golden Gopher outfielders to claim first team honors in the same year since John Kopfer and Ryan Lefebvre did so in 1991. Hanson and Nohelty also became the first Golden Gopher sophomores to claim first team honors since Andy Hunter and Glen Perkins did so in 2004.
In his first two years with the Golden Gophers, Nohelty has collected 39 stolen bases. That is the most stolen bases in the first two years by a
Oslin enters the Big Ten Tournament leading the Big Ten in saves with 11, and is 0-1 with a 2.76 ERA with 17 strikeouts in 16.1 innings. His 11 saves set broke the single-season school-record set by Jeff Moen in 2003.
For the season, Oslin has limited opponents to a .193 batting average. He went 0-1, with a 1.29 ERA and six saves in Big Ten play. The six saves were the second most in a single-season in Big Ten play in school history. Oslin becomes the first Golden Gopher reliever to be named second-team or higher since Jeff Moen was named to the second team in 2003.
He becomes the third Golden Gopher shortstop in the last five years to collect All-Big Ten honors joining Scott Welch (First-Team in 2003) and Matt Fornasiere (Second-Team in 2005).
Carr enters the week with a 5-2 record, a 2.76 ERA, eight saves and 33 strikeouts in 39.2 innings. He is tied with a team-high 19 appearances, and has made two appearances in each of the past two Big Ten series. He has not given up an earned run in his last six appearances, which has spanned over 14.1 innings of work.
He is second on the team in wins at five and is second in saves at eight. Carr's eight saves tie him for the third-highest single-season total in school history. He also had six saves in Big Ten play to tie for the team lead, as he recorded the second-highest total in Big Ten play in school history.
