Sophomore outfielder Jake Thomas has been named to the 2007 Rawlings/ABCA Baseball All-Mideast Region Second Team.
The left-hander from Evanston, Illinois rewrote the Wabash record book this season. Thomas collected a single-season record 59 hits to break the mark of 56 set in 1997 by Zak Judd '99. Thomas, who also earned a place on the 2007 All-North Coast Athletic Conference First Team, was third in league in batting average (.424), fourth in total hits, and fifth in slugging percentage (.633). He hit 11 doubles, three triples, and four home runs while starting all 40 games in right field. His biggest homer of the season came with a two-run blast in a tie game at Wooster that gave the Little Giants a 3-1 victory while snapping the Scots' 27-game winning streak.
Thomas hit safely in his last 10 games of the season, tying the longest streak of the season by a Wabash player. He had 17 games in which he collected two or more hits, with his best effort coming in a 5-for-6 effort against William Paterson University during the Little Giants' spring break trip to Arizona.
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