Five players from the Wabash College baseball team were selected to the All-North Coast Athletic Conference baseball team for 2003 as voted on by the NCAC coaches. Junior Mike Mack (Butler, IN/Eastside), senior Jake Martin (Rushville, IN/Rushville), and sophomores Tyler Nance (Celebration, FL/Celebration), Bill Goff (Brownsburg, IN/Brownsburg), and Danny Schubert (Lebanon, IL/Lebanon) have all named to the squad. Mack, Martin, and Nance were Second Team selections, while Goff and Schubert earned Honorable Mention honors.
Mack led the Little Giants in slugging percentage (.598), on-base percentage (.487), and home runs (6) in 2003. The sophomore outfielder hit .369 with 45 base hits and 33 RBIs.
Martin finished the season with a 5-1 record for Wabash. The senior lefthander had a 3.67 earned run average and 48 strikeouts in 61-1/3 innings pitched. He gave up only eight walks all year. Martin also hit .304 splitting time between pitching and playing centerfield. He started all 40 games for Wabash this season while earning the team’s Most Valuable Player Award.
Nance hit .407 in his second season at Wabash, the fifth-best batting average in the NCAC. He had 48 hits in 118 at bats, scoring 22 runs. He was second on the Little Giants’ team in on-base percentage (.467) and fifth in RBIs (21).
Goff finished the year with a .336 average while leading the team in RBIs with 35. He scored 31 runs, joining Mack and Martin as the only Wabash players to top 30 runs scored this year. Goff split his time between first base and the pitchers mound, finishing the season with a 3-3 mark as a starting pitcher.
Schubert set a school record for assists in a season, making 110 assists in 39 games. He was part of a Wabash defense that also set the school record for doubles plays turned in a season with 37. Schubert hit .339 for the year with 23 RBIs and 26 runs scored. He finished the year with a .441 on-base percentage.
Wabash went 22-18 this spring under third-year head coach Tom Flynn, 10-6 in the NCAC Western Division. The 22 victories were the third-most in school history.
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