Baseball's Maddox Earns Freshman All-American Honors
6/5/2003 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Baseball's Maddox Earns Freshman All-American Honors
Hattiesburg, Miss. - The 2003 Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American team was announced today by Collegiate Baseball newspaper, and Southern Miss' Marc Maddox was among the players listed on the team. This marks the second year in a row that Southern Miss has had players named to the Louisville Slugger All-American team after Jarrett Hoffpauir (2B), Cliff Russum (RHP), Matt Shepherd (SS) and Brad Willcutt (C) were named to last year's team.
Maddox, also named to the Conference USA All-Freshman team, played in 57 games and started 28 at first base. He hit .336 with 12 doubles, one triple, five home runs and drove in 27 runs. He had a .412 on-base percentage and a .562 slugging percentage. He also had a .997 fielding percentage, only making one error in 286 chances. He finished with 10 multiple-hit games and four multiple-RBI games.
In conference games only, he played in 28 games and started 12. He hit .444 with seven doubles, one triple, three home runs and drove in 12 runs. He finished with a .508 on-base percentage and a .778 slugging percentage. He had a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage, going0 without an error in 139 chances.
His top performance of the season was 4-for-6 at Houston in the final game of the regular-season, helping the Golden Eagles clinch the regular-season Conference USA championship. He hit a double, a triple, two home runs, scored three runs and drove in five runs, helping the Golden Eagles to a 15-3 win.
Southern Miss finished 47-16 overall and 23-7 in Conference USA, setting the school record for most wins in a season and the conference record for most conference wins in a season. The Golden Eagles won the Conference USA regular-season title, the tournament championship and hosted the NCAA Hattiesburg Regional Tournament this past weekend, finishing second. They also set the school record for the highest ranking (12) by Baseball America.
The Golden Eagles led the conference in hitting (.318), RBIs (455), runs (497), hits (712), walks (255), sacrifice flies (34), on-base percentage (.396), slugging percentage (.516), doubles (142), home runs (89), total bases (455), saves (19) and ERA (3.56).