Six Rangers Named To 2017 All-MACJC Baseball Team

Headlined by sophomore third baseman and All-American hopeful David Herrington, Northwest Mississippi Community College had six players selected to the 2017 All-MACJC Baseball Team announced Monday by the conference office.

Awards are nominated and voted on by the conference’s 15 head baseball coaches.
Herrington (Senatobia/Magnolia Heights) was Northwest’s lone first team all-conference selection and was also an all-region nod, finishing as the Rangers’ batting champion for a second consecutive year. He will be up for NJCAA All-American honors which will be announced in June.
The Delta State two-sport signee led the team in average (.423), hits (77), runs scored (52), home runs (seven), total bases (116) and stolen bases (32). He tied Northwest career records of 135 hits and 55 stolen bases and finished in the top five in seven different career categories overall.
Second team all-conference selections went to outfielder Aaron Campbell, designated hitter Spencer Cayten and pitchers J.G. Lipscomb, Jarod Wright and Dalton Minton – all outgoing sophomores.
Campbell (Ellendale, Tenn./Arlington) earned second team honors for a second straight year after hitting .305 with team highs in doubles (16), runs batted in (48) and multi-RBI games (13). He ends his Ranger career tied for first in games started (99), second in doubles (28), at-bats (354) and games played (100), ninth in hits (114) and 10th in RBIs (84).
Cayten (Purvis/Slidell (LA)) finished second on the team with a .339 average, eight doubles, three triples, four home runs and 28 RBIs. He hit a team-best .420 over the final seven weeks of the season while slugging .705.
Lipscomb (Tupelo/TCPS) was 3-2 with a team-best 2.47 ERA and conference-leading 10 saves (third in NJCAA) in 22.2 innings of work. He broke the school’s 21-year old single-season record for saves (10) and tied Tyler Scholl’s all-time record (11).
A first team all-conference nod as a freshman, Wright (Arlington, Tenn.) finished 9-3 with a 3.51 ERA, three complete games and 64 strikeouts over 81.2 innings as a sophomore. His 162 career innings pitched and 705 batters faced ranks first all-time while his 14 career wins and 129 punch outs rank third all-time.
Minton (Horn Lake) was 7-4 with a 2.62 ERA, three complete games and team-best 69 strikeouts in 72 innings of work. His 115 strikeouts ranks tied for seventh all-time.
Northwest finished the season MACJC runner-up and 32-19 overall, its fifth 30-win season in the last seven years under 12th year head coach Mark Carson.

Courtesy of Kevin Maloney and Northwest
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