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Five
Auburn Baseball Players All-SEC
Hulett
named first team
May 20,
2003
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Tug
Hulett
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AUBURN ―Auburn
sophomore second baseman Tug Hulett and sophomore
relief pitcher Steven Register were named to the
All-Southeastern Conference First-Team as voted upon
by the league's 12 head coaches. Senior designated
hitter Bobby Huddleston, junior outfielder Javon Moran
and junior first baseman Karl Amonite were each
selected to the All-SEC second team.
Hulett ,
a native of Shreveport, La., is hitting a team-best
.376 with 47 runs, 22 doubles and 34 runs batted in.
Hulett is among the top three in the Southeastern
Conference in batting average, hits and doubles. In
Southeastern Conference games, the second baseman hit
.368 with 11 doubles and 16 RBI.
A Columbus, Ga.,
native, Register has a 3-0 record with 14 saves and a
2.96 earned run average. His 14 saves currently lead
the SEC and are the second most in a single-season by
an Auburn reliever. Register has tallied 49 strikeouts
and just five walks in 45 2/3 innings.
Huddleston, who
also earned Second-Team All-SEC honors as a junior, is
hitting .332 this season with a team leading 12 home
runs and 58 runs batted in. A Montgomery, Ala.,
native, Huddleston is third in the SEC in runs batted
in and sixth in home runs.
A junior, Moran
earned his first All-SEC honors while hitting .322
with 17 doubles and a team best five triples and 22
stolen bases. The Valdosta, Ga., native ranks fourth
all-time at Auburn in stolen bases (64) and 10th in
hits (252) and is among the SEC leaders in stolen
bases and hits this season.
In his first
season at Auburn, Amonite is hitting .322 with 10 home
runs and 51 runs batted in. The Woodlsee, Ontario,
native led the Tigers offensively in SEC action,
hitting .369 with seven doubles, eight home runs and
35 RBI in conference play.
Auburn (38-17)
will play Vanderbilt in the first round of the 2003
SEC Tournament on Wednesday at 10 a.m. CT at the
Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Ala. Auburn is
the No. 3 seed, while Vanderbilt is the No. 6 seed in
the tournament.
2003 SEC
BASEBALL HONORS
SEC Player of
the Year ―Aaron
Hill, LSU
SEC Pitcher of
the Year ―David
Marchbanks, South Carolina
SEC Freshman of
the Year ―Stephen
Head, Ole Miss
SEC Coach of the
Year ―Smoke
Laval, LSU
FIRST-TEAM
ALL-SEC
1B ―Clay
Harris, LSU; 2B―Tug Hulett, Auburn;
3B―Brian Buscher, S. Carolina; SS―Aaron
Hill, LSU; C―Landon Powell, S. Carolina;
OF―Beau Hearod, Alabama; OF―Ryan Fox,
Arkansas; OF―Jordan Czarniecki, Tennessee;
DH―Ryan Patterson, LSU; P―Paul Maholm,
Miss. State; P―David Marchbanks, S. Carolina;
RP―Steven
Register, Auburn
SECOND-TEAM
ALL-SEC
1B ―Karl
Amonite, Auburn; 2B―Blake Gill, LSU;
3B―Steve Gendron, Miss. State; SS―Matthew
Maniscalco, Miss. State; C―Brian Rose, Florida;
OF―Javon Moran, Auburn; OF―Jon Zeringue,
LSU; OF―Ben Harrison, Florida; DH―Bobby
Huddleston, Auburn; P―Jeremy Sowers, Vanderbilt;
P―Nate Bumstead, LSU; RP―Stephen Head, Ole
Miss
HULETT
TURNS UMPIRE FOR A GAME!
. . . WHAT WAS THAT?
Posted
July 25, 2005
Timber
Rattlers’ victory has it all
By
Mike Leifeld
Post-Crescent staff writer
GRAND
CHUTE — With all the crazy things that happened to
them, the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers were just happy
they came out on the winning end of a 13-9 score
against the Clinton Lumber- Kings at Fox Cities
Stadium on Sunday.
The
Rattlers built a 10-2 lead through three innings, but
by then the game had already taken some interesting
twists.
In the
bottom of the second, Clinton catcher Craig Hurba
argued a balls and strikes call with home plate umpire
Garrett Wilson. Hurba was quickly ejected from the
game, which prompted him to hurl his mask toward third
base and his catcher’s helmet to the backstop. When
he was escorted to the dugout, he continued his
tirade, heaving a trash can onto the playing field.
Wisconsin’s
Marshall Hubbard, who was up to bat, generously
cleaned up Hurba’s mess and then drove the next
pitch he saw into center field for an RBI single.
The
ejection was Clinton’s fourth of the series. Manager
Carlos Subero was tossed in consecutive games Friday
and Saturday, and third baseman Emerson Frostad also
got the heave Saturday.
“When
you say certain things, they’re automatic
(ejections),” Wilson said. “All four ejections we
had were automatics.”
The
third inning got even crazier. With runners on second
and third, Oswaldo Navarro ducked to avoid being hit
by a pitch. The ball struck his bat, however, and
somehow made its way into fair territory.
Navarro
took off for first and the pitcher picked up the ball
and fired it over the first baseman’s head, scoring
two runners and sending Navarro to second.
“It
was a situation where he ducks on a 3-0 pitch, it hits
the bat and goes fair and ends up almost like a drag
bunt for crying out loud,” Rattlers manager Scott
Steinmann said. “We had a lot of things go our way
today.”
Later
in the inning, there was a 15-minute delay when Wilson
had to be helped off the field after getting injured.
“The
catcher and pitcher got crossed up and I caught a
fastball right above the shin guard,” he said.
“It’s not broken, but it’s a real bad bruise.”
According
to Midwest League rules, when the plate umpire leaves
the game, the field umpire moves behind the plate and
one player from each team must act as the field
umpires.
Wisconsin’s
Cibney Bello and Clinton’s Tug Hulett served as the
day’s replacement umpires.
“It
is the first time in my life,” Bello said, laughing.
“It was really fun.”
The
Rattlers led by nine runs in the fifth behind a strong
pitching performance from Mark Lowe. Lowe pitched six
innings, allowing one earned run on five hits. But the
LumberKings hit Wisconsin relievers hard and turned it
into a close game.
“We’ve
had two extra-inning games already (in this series)
and I was thinking no way is this going to happen
again,” Lowe said. “This is the craziest game
I’ve ever been a part of, no doubt. Everything that
happened, I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Clinton’s
Ian Gac, who hit two home runs, had a chance to tie
the game in the ninth. He came up to bat with the
bases loaded and two outs, but Wisconsin’s Steve
Grasley struck him out.
Game
time: The Timber Rattlers will kick off a
four-game homestand against the Kane County Cougars
today at 7:05 p.m. at Fox Cities Stadium.
Wisconsin’s Randy Frye (2-4, 8.10 ERA) is expected
to face Joe Scott (1-1, 6.00) of Kane County.
Mike
Leifeld
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