More than 40 baseball standouts were recognized Wednesday as the Lone Star Conference annual baseball postseason awards were announced prior to this week’s championship.

      The honorees included seven first-team selections for LSC Champion Texas A&M-Kingsville, who won its fifth title with a 24-11 league record.  TAMUK had 11 total picks with three second-teamers and one honorable mention selection.

      The Javelinas Derrick Walls was tabbed Player of the Year, while Jason Gonzales claimed Coach of the Year acclaim.

      West Texas A&M’s Dylan James took home Pitcher of the Year honors, while Eastern New Mexico’s Kiegan Basso was named Freshman of the Year.

      WT also had 11 all-conference performers with seven first-teamers and four second-team selections.

      Angelo State and Tarleton State both had six selections.  The Rams had three picks on the top team and three on the second team.  The Texans were represented by three on the first team, two second-teamers and one honorable mention pick.

      Cameron and Eastern New Mexico added four players each.  Both the Aggies and Greyhounds had one first-team pick.

      A total of 42 student-athletes were acknowledged by the all-conference program, including at least one player from each of the six baseball teams in the LSC.  The awards are voted upon by the league coaches.
 
2014 LSC BASEBALL ALL-CONFERENCE AWARDS

FIRST TEAM
Player	School	Pos.	Year	Hometown
Dylan James	West Texas A&M	SP	Sr.	Las Cruces, N.M.
Dallas Ponder	Texas A&M-Kingsville	SP	Sr.	Flatonia, Texas
Denver Diefenbach	Texas A&M-Kingsville	SP	Sr.	Victoria , Texas
Blake Bass	Angelo State	SP	Jr.	Lubbock, Texas
Robert Baker	Tarleton State	SP	Sr.	Garland, Texas
Ryan Scott	Texas A&M-Kingsville	RP	Jr.	Sanger, Texas
Paul Lujan	West Texas A&M	RP	Jr.	Thorton, Colo.
Cody Williams	Texas A&M-Kingsville	RP	Sr.	Cypress, Texas
Jared Musgrove	Tarleton State	C	Sr.	Houston, Texas
Cameron Massengill	Angelo State	C	Jr.	Kennedale, Texas
Taylor Taska	Texas A&M-Kingsville	1B	Sr.	Kingwood, Texas
Beto Rodriguez	West Texas A&M	2B	Sr.	Brownsville, Texas
Derrick Walls	Texas A&M-Kingsville	SS	Sr.	San Antonio, Texas
Codey McElroy	Cameron	SS	Jr.	Chattanoga, Okla.
David Hebert	West Texas A&M	3B	Sr.	Colleyville, Texas
Matthew Burks	Eastern New Mexico	OF	Jr.	Vacaville, Calif.
Tyler McKnight	West Texas A&M	OF	Sr.	Durango, Colo.
Nick Chapman	West Texas A&M	OF	Jr.	Tucson, Ariz.
Rustin Thomas	Tarleton State	OF	Sr.	Mansfield, Texas
Ryan Guedry	Texas A&M-Kingsville	DH	Sr.	Houston, Texas
Matt Redfearn	West Texas A&M	UT	Sr.	Upland, Calif.
Tyler Coughenour	Angelo State	UT	Sr.	Wichita, Kan.
SECOND TEAM
Matthew Artalejo	Eastern New Mexico	SP	Jr.	Westminister, Colo.
Scott Cone	West Texas A&M	SP	Sr.	Glenwood, New South Wales
Jason Zgardowski	Angelo State	SP	Jr.	San Antonio, Texas
Brian Schwabe	Cameron	SP	Sr.	St. Louis, Mo.
Jake Feckley	Angelo State	SP	Sr.	Wylie, Texas
Garrett Kelly	Tarleton State	RP	Sr.	Corpus Christi, Texas
Tobin Mateychick	Cameron	RP	Sr.	Enid, Okla.
Jacob Caples	West Texas A&M	C	Jr.	New Caney, Texas
Aaron Blair	West Texas A&M	1B	Jr.	Queen Creek, Ariz.
Matt Perez	Texas A&M-Kingsville	2B	Sr.	Stevensville, Mont.
Brett Ackerman	Eastern New Mexico	SS	Sr.	Poway, Calif.
Alvaro Moreno	Tarleton State	3B	Sr.	McAllen, Texas
Brian Frazier	Texas A&M-Kingsville	OF	Sr.	Kingwood, Texas
David Goggin	Angelo State	OF	So.	Red Wing, Minn.
Dylan Dyson	West Texas A&M	DH	Jr.	Tucson, Ariz.
Justin Lee	Texas A&M-Kingsville	UT	Sr.	Strathmore, Alberta
Blake Cooper	Eastern New Mexico	UT	R-Jr.	Long Beach, Calif.
HONORABLE MENTION
Harold Cannon	Cameron	1B	Jr.	Nashville, Tenn.
Luke Slentz	Tarleton State	2B	Sr.	Midland, Texas
James Black	Texas A&M-Kingsville	3B	Sr.	Spring, Texas

SPECIAL AWARDS
Player of the Year: Derrick Walls, Texas A&M-Kingsville 
Pitcher of the Year: Dylan James, West Texas A&M
Freshman of the Year: Kiegan Basso, Eastern New Mexico
Coach of the Year: Jason Gonzales, Texas A&M-Kingsville