Monday, June 19
Tigers prominent on all-tourney team
 
 Associated Press

OMAHA, Neb. -- Louisiana State reliever Trey Hodges needed just four innings to lock up the College World Series most outstanding player award.

Hodges (5-2) pitched four scoreless innings Saturday in the Tigers' 6-5 win over Stanford in the CWS championship game. It was the second win of the series for Hodges, who also had a save in one of the four games LSU won to clinch a fifth national title.

"I don't know what to say," Hodges said. "I wouldn't be able to win an award like that without my team and what I had behind me."

In the 10 2-3 innings in the series, Hodges allowed six hits, two runs, struck out eight and walked two. He had a 1.69 ERA for the series.

Hodges is just the third LSU player to win the award and first since Todd Walker in 1993.

Hodges was joined on the CWS all-tournament team by LSU second baseman Mike Fontenot, shortstop Ryan Theriot, third baseman Blair Barbier and first baseman Brad Hawpe, who was voted in as the designated hitter.

Fontenot led the Tigers with a .462 batting average. Hawpe was second at .400 and hit three homers and had nine RBIs. Barbier hit .385 with three homers, including a solo shot Saturday that tied the championship game in the eighth inning.

Stanford outfielders Joe Borchard and Edmund Muth and first baseman Craig Thompson were the Cardinal selections on the all-tournament team.

Borchard hit .500 for the tournament; Muth set the CWS record for career homers with his sixth and Thompson hit .421 and hit a grand slam in the championship game.

Southern California's Beau Craig, who hit .455, was the all-tournament catcher. Florida State's Jon McDonald, who had an 0.87 ERA in 10 1-3 innings and Hodges were the pitchers and Louisiana-Lafayette's Steven Feehan was the third outfielder.

 



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