Ryan Falcon earns All-Southern Conference honors

CHARLESTON, SC – The Southern Conference announced Wednesday that UNC Greensboro starting pitcher Ryan Falcon earned All-Southern Conference second team for his efforts this season.

Falcon has been among the league’s top pitchers this season. He was third in the SoCon with both a 3.05 ERA and a .245 opposing batting average. He finished second with a 2.71 ERA in conference action. The Rougemont, NC product leads the UNCG pitching staff in strikeouts (77), wins (7), starts (15) and innings pitched (97.1).

The senior left-hander made his final season at UNCG one of his best. He pitched his first complete game shutout of the year in a 2-0 win over Georgia Southern on March 30. He gave up just two hits and struck out eight in the victory. Falcon picked up his second complete game of the season in a 6-3 win over The Citadel, in which he struck out a career-high 12 batters.

Falcon has been one of the Spartans’ most dominate pitchers and has placed himself among UNCG’s all-time pitching leaders. His career total of 278 strikeouts puts him third on UNCG’s career strikeout list. He is also fourth all-time with 308 innings pitched and tied for sixth all-time with a 3.70 ERA at UNCG.

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Coaches All-Southern Conference Team

Player of the Year – Kenny Smith (Western Carolina)
Pitcher of the Year – Nick Chigges (College of Charleston)
Freshman of the Year – Richard Jones (The Citadel)
Coach of the Year – John Pawlowski (College of Charleston) 

First Team
C – Blake Murphy (Western Carolina)
1B – Zach Brown (The Citadel)
2B – Kenny Smith (Western Carolina)
3B – Brandon Waring (Wofford)
SS – Oliver Marmol (College of Charleston)
OF – Michael Harrington (College of Charleston)
OF – Barrett Shaft (Western Carolina)
OF – David Rubinstein (Appalachian State)
DH – Rob Wilson (Davidson)
SP – Nick Chigges (College of Charleston)
SP – Drew Saberhagen (College of Charleston)
RP – Greg Holland (Western Carolina) 

Second Team
C – Alex Garabedian (College of Charleston)
1B – Graham Maiden (College of Charleston)
2B – Chris Campbell (College of Charleston)
3B – Ben Lasater (College of Charleston)
SS – Jason Altenhof (Appalachian State)
OF – Chris Swauger (The Citadel)
OF – Steven Strausbaugh (Western Carolina)
OF – Sonny Meade (The Citadel)
DH – Richard Jones (The Citadel)
SP – Steven Hensley (Elon)
SP – Ryan Falcon (UNC Greensboro)
RP – A.J. Battisto (Georgia Southern)

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