Jeremy Winig
Sports Information Director, Glens Falls Golden Eagles
(518)339-9815
jnwinig@cazenovia.edu

Former Golden Eagle Successes

Glens Falls, NY- The Glens Falls Golden Eagles have produced a plethora of talented players in the team’s four-year history.  This year alone, eleven former players have been named to their respective all-conference teams.  This does not include the Golden Eagles arriving this summer or some other top performers playing for large programs who fell short of conference accolades.

Nate Recknagel and Chris Shehan were recently named finalists in the field of 50 for the USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award.  The honor is given to the nation’s premiere amateur baseball player.  Shehan and Recknagel were both members of the 2006 Golden Eagles.

Recknagel has been tearing up opposing pitching to the tune of a .381 average with 23 homers and 68 runs batted in.  The University of Michigan senior first baseman also carries a .787 slugging percentage.  The wolverine’s 23 homers leaves him at second in the nation among all of Division 1.  Recknagel was chosen as the Big Ten’s Player of the Year and also placed on the All-Big Ten First Team.  Chris Shehan has been equally as impressive for the Georgia Southern Eagles.  The junior outfielder is sporting a .441 batting average, with 22 home runs and a whopping 75 runs batted in to compliment his .845 slugging percentage.  Shehan has also recorded 22 stolen bases and maintained a .960 fielding percentage.  Shehan was selected to the Southern Conference’s First Team.

Shaun Hagey of Rhode Island was selected for the Atlantic 10 All-First Team as an infielder.  Hagey hit .339 with 15 runs batted in and 14 stolen bases in 49 starts.  Yale’s Josh Cox was voted onto the Ivy League’s first team after hitting .377 with 14 runs batted in and 21 stolen bases.  Kevin Mahoney of Canisius was selected to the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference’s first team for a season in which he hit .379 with 11 homers and 51 runs batted in.  Southern Illinois’s Mark Kelly was selected to the Missouri Valley Conference All-First Team for his junior season hitting .369 with 43 runs batted in and a .990 fielding percentage behind the dish.  Jake Shaffer of Northern Kentucky was named to the Great Lakes Valley Conference’s first team after hitting .331 with 39 runs batted in and 15 stolen bases.

Chad Knight from North Florida was awarded a spot on the Atlantic Sun Second Team.  Penn State’s Mike Wanamaker is the second former Golden Eagle to earn Big Ten accolades.  Wanamaker was placed on the second team after a 6-5 season with a 3.46 earned run average in 14 starts.  Siena’s Rick Seltzer also earned Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference honors for a season in which he hit .273 with nine homers and 36 runs batted in.  Seltzer earned a spot on the MAAC’s second team.

Ryan Conan of Santa Clara was awarded a spot on the Honorable Mention for the West Coast Conference.  Conan finished the year batting .346 with 46 stolen bases and a .989 fielding percentage.  Princeton’s Dan DeGeorge also received honorable mention for his work in the Ivy League this spring.  DeGeorge hit .273 with runs batted in and nine stolen bases.

While not being selected to receive conference honors, other former players like Brian Moran of North Carolina and Zac Farry of Francis Marion are more quietly putting together excellent seasons.  Moran has been a key performer in the Tar Heel bullpen all season, turning in clutch performances against two teams ranked #1 in the nation at the time—Florida State and Miami.  For the season, Moran has a 1.73 earned run average in thirty appearances, striking out 61 batters in 41.2 innings.  Farry is 4-1 with 13 saves in 28 relief appearances.