
GUILFORD'S REED EARNS SECOND TEAM ALL-ODAC BASEBALL HONORS
Greensboro, NC (05-05-99) -- Guilford College senior Andy Reed (Charlotte, NC/Myers Park) earned second team All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) recognition, the league announced Wednesday. Reed is Guilford's lone representative on either the first or second team all-conference squads.
Junior Robbi Moose of league champion Bridgewater received the ODAC's Player of the Year Award for the second straight season. Washington and Lee's Jeff Stickley won the loop's Coach of the Year prize.
A first baseman and catcher, Reed led Guilford's hitters with a .395 batting average with eight home runs and 31 runs batted in (RBI) - all career-high totals. He also paced the Quakers with 47 hits and boasted a .655 slugging percentage. Reed batted .375 (18-48) in 16 ODAC games with two home runs and seven runs batted in. The 6-3, 185-pound senior ranked third among ODAC home run leaders, fourth in hitting and fifth in RBI through games of April 25. He totalled 13 multi-hit contests and had 10 games with two or more runs batted in.
Reed enjoyed a career-best nine-game hitting streak this year, during which time he hit .484 (15-31). He homered twice in the Quakers' season-opening win over Bluefield (2/13) and in a 13-11 triumph over Williams College March 29. Reed plated a career-high four runners in a February 14 win over Division II Gannon University. For his efforts this season, Reed received Guilford's McBane Hitting Award and his teammates voted him the club's most valuable player.
Coach Gene Baker's team posted a 17-21 record in 1999, 6-10 in the ODAC. Reed is one of eight graduating seniors from the 1999 unit, but Baker expects 17 letter winners back in 2000.