May 25, 2010

Jason Rogers Named All-American

Columbus- Jason Rogers, the Cougars' slugging first baseman, has been named as a First Team All-American player by the Rawlings/American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) poll. Additionally, Rogers was named to the third team All-American team by Daktronics. The Rawlings/ABCA team is voted on by NCAA Division II Baseball coaches, while the Daktronics team is nominated and voted on by sports information directors at the various institutions. Rogers was also a semifinalist for the Ping! Baseball inaugural Tino Martinez Division II Player of the Year award. Jason finished 6th overall in the voting.

"Jason is certainly deserving of the many awards he has earned this season," says CSU Head Coach Greg Appleton. "With the season that Jason had in 2010, he can definitely be placed among the great Cougar players in school history."

Rogers tied the Columbus State and Peach Belt Conference marks for homeruns in a single season with 26 in 2010. He set a new CSU mark with 46 extra-base hits in a season (26 HR, 18 2b, 2 3b), and narrowly missed the CSU record for RBI in a season with 86 (the record is 89 by Rodney Rutherford in 2007). He also set a new mark for slugging percentage in a season with a phenomenal mark of .869, breaking a 23-year-old record set by CSU Hall of Fame member Chip Duncan in 1987, and also for total bases in a season with 193.