Locals earn honors in the Big West
Five players with local ties were among those honored when the Big West announced its All-Conference baseball selections.
Cal State Fullerton junior outfielder Josh Fellhauer was named to the first team. The Rancho Cucamonga product hit an impressive .391 with 51 RBI in leading the Titans to a 42-14 mark.
UC Riverside standouts Paul Applebee and Carl Uhl were named to the second team. Applebee, a junior left-hander out of Upland, went 10-2 on the mound with a 3.74 ERA.
Uhl, a senior outfielder, hit .329 with 36 RBI. He was a prep standout at Serrano High school, leading both the football and baseball teams to CIF titles his senior year.
Honorable mention went to UC Irvine freshman Tommy Reyes (.348) as well as Cal State Fullerton sophomore Gary Brown (.329). Brown is out of Diamond Bar while Reyes is from Rancho Cucamonga but spent his prep career at Bishop Amat..
About Michelle
Michelle Gardner has been a staff writer for The Sun and the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin since 2002 and has covered the local college sports scene since 2004. She ventured West after working at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale for eight years and is a graduate of the University of Florida.
E-mail Michelle here.
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