Bortles And Rolison Earn SEC Honors

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Bortles And Rolison Earn SEC Honors

Two Rebels earned SEC Baseball accolades when the league office released their all-conference lists Monday afternoon. Third baseman Colby Bortles was named second team All-SEC, while left-handed pitcher Ryan Rolison found a spot on the Freshman All-SEC team.

Bortles was a preseason second team All-SEC honoree, and the senior lived up to those expectations in his final season as a Rebel. Along with manning the hot corner, he leads the Rebels with 10 home runs and 42 RBI. A .270 hitter, Bortles also paces the team in multi-RBI games (12) over 54 starts. He’s hitting even better in SEC play with a .275 batting average. The Oviedo, Florida, native is the conference leader in sacrifice flies (7), which ranks 16th in the country. Playing in 212 games throughout his Ole Miss career, Bortles ranks 10th in program history with 153 RBI.
A highly-touted All-American out of high school, Rolison began the season in the bullpen before emerging as a key piece to the Ole Miss rotation. The Jackson, Tennessee, native is 6-3 on the 2017 campaign with a 3.06 ERA over 61.2 innings. Among qualified pitchers, the southpaw has allowed the fifth-fewest runs (23) in the SEC. Out of 18 appearances, Rolison has started nine games. His best outing of the year was against Missouri (April 22), tossing 6.0 scoreless innings and allowing only one hit. Adding a career-high nine strikeouts in the start against the Tigers, Rolison earned SEC Freshman of the Week honors.
Bortles, Rolison and the rest of the Rebels will begin SEC Tournament play tomorrow afternoon, facing No. 20 Auburn for the fourth consecutive game. The winner will earn a spot into the double elimination portion of the tournament. First pitch from the Hoover Met in Hoover, Alabama is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. CT on SEC Network.
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2017 SEC Baseball Awards
Player of the Year: Brent Rooker, Mississippi State
Pitcher of the Year: Sean Hjelle, Kentucky
Freshman of the Year: Braden Shewmake, Texas A&M
Coach of the Year: Nick Mingione, Kentucky
Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Zach Logue, Kentucky
First-Team All-SEC
C: Grant Koch, Arkansas
1B: Brent Rooker, Mississippi State
2B: Braden Shewmake, Texas A&M
3B: Jordan Rodgers, Tennessee
SS: Ryan Gridley, Mississippi State
OF: Greg Deichmann, LSU
OF: Tristan Pompey, Kentucky
OF: Jeren Kendall, Vanderbilt
DH/UT: Michael Curry, Georgia
SP: Kyle Wright, Vanderbilt
*SP: Sean Hjelle, Kentucky
*SP: Alex Lange, LSU
RP: Logan Salow, Kentucky
Second-Team All-SEC Team
C: Troy Squires, Kentucky
1B: Evan White, Kentucky
2B: Riley Mahan, Kentucky
3B: Colby Bortles, Ole Miss
*SS: Kramer Robertson, LSU
*SS: Jax Biggers, Arkansas
OF: Jonah Todd, Auburn
OF: Jake Mangum, Mississippi State
OF: Chandler Taylor, Alabama
DH/UT: JJ Schwarz, Florida
SP: Alex Faedo, Florida
SP: Brady Singer, Florida
RP: Michael Byrne, Florida
Freshman All-SEC Team
C: Hunter Coleman, Texas A&M
1B: Andre Lipcius, Tennessee
2B: Braden Shewmake, Texas A&M
3B: Josh Smith, LSU
SS: Cam Shepherd, Georgia
OF: Carlos Cortes, South Carolina
OF: Zach Watson, LSU
OF: Dominic Fletcher, Arkansas
DH/UT: Logan Foster, Texas A&M
SP: Ryan Rolison, Ole Miss
SP: Eric Walker, LSU
RP: T.J. Sikkema, Missouri
SEC All-Defensive Team
C: Michael Papierski, LSU
1B: Evan White, Kentucky
2B: Deacon Liput, Florida
3B: Josh Smith, LSU
SS: Dalton Guthrie, Florida
OF: Jeren Kendall, Vanderbilt
OF: Jonah Todd, Auburn
OF: Jake Mangum, Mississippi State
P: Brigham Hill, Texas A&M
* – Denotes a tie in voting. Ties are not broken.
Courtesy of Ole Miss Sports

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Ole Miss’ Rawlings Named To Rimington Trophy Watch List

Ole Miss junior Sean Rawlings has been named to the spring watch list for the 2017 Rimington Trophy, which honors the top center in Division I FBS college football.

Announced by the Rimington Trophy Committee on Monday, the watch list has 63 centers, including at least one from every FBS conference.
Rawlings, from Madison, Mississippi, has played in 21 games with 15 starts over the first two seasons of his Ole Miss career. He started seven games at right tackle and one at center a year ago and is a favorite to be the team’s full-time center entering his junior campaign. He was an SEC All-Freshman pick by Gridironnow.com in 2015 when he started seven games at right tackle and helped the Rebels return to the Sugar Bowl for the first time since 1970.
Other SEC centers Joining Rawlings on the Rimington watch list are Alabama’s Bradley Bozeman, Arkansas’ Frank Ragnow, Auburn’s Austin Golson, Florida’s T.J. McCoy, LSU’s Will Clapp, South Carolina’s Alan Knoff and Texas A&M’s Colton Prater.
While more than a dozen All-America teams are selected annually, the Rimington Trophy committee used these three prestigious teams to determine a winner:
Walter Camp Foundation
Sporting News
Football Writers Association of America
Because the selectors of these three All-America teams can place centers in a “mix” of offensive linemen that includes guards and tackles, their 11-man first teams can often have two centers. The Rimington Trophy committee’s policy is to count all players that play primarily the center position for their respective teams as centers, even though they may be listed as guards or tackles on the All-America teams.
The center with the most first-team votes will be determined the winner. If there is a tie with first-team votes, then the center with the most second-team votes will win. If there is still a tie, the winner will be determined by a majority vote from the Rimington Trophy committee. The winner will be recognized at the Rimington Trophy Presentation at the Rococo Theatre in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Saturday, January 13, 2018.
About the Rimington Trophy
The Rimington Trophy is presented annually to the Most Outstanding Center in NCAA Division I FBS College Football. Since its inception, the Rimington Trophy has raised over $2.9 million for the cystic fibrosis community. The award is overseen by the Boomer Esiason Foundation, which is committed to finding a cure for cystic fibrosis and has raised over $130 million for the fight against cystic fibrosis. Dave Rimington, the award’s namesake, was a consensus first team All-American center at the University of Nebraska in 1981 and 1982, during which time he became the Outland Trophy’s only double winner as the nation’s finest college interior lineman.
For more on the Rimington Trophy and a list of past recipients, visit www.rimingtontrophy.com.
About the NCFAA
The Rimington Trophy is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA), which encompasses the most prestigious awards in college football. The 23 awards boast 765 years of tradition-selection excellence. Visit www.NCFAA.org to learn more.
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New SEC Storied Documentary “The Rebel” to Premiere on SEC Network May 30

The next installment in ESPN Films’ SEC Storied series, “The Rebel,” will premiere on Tuesday, May 30, at 9 p.m. ET on SEC Network. The film looks at former Ole Miss basketball sensation Johnny Neumann and the decisions he made that shaped his life and career forever.
Johnny Neumann took the Ole Miss nickname seriously. A 6’6″ prodigy from Memphis often compared to LSU superstar Pete Maravich, Neumann led the nation in scoring in 1971 as a sophomore in his only seaon in Oxford.
In the SEC Storied film “The Rebel,” director Paul Carruthers looks back on those days when Neumann electrified the Memphis basketball scene playing for Overton High before moving on to the University of Mississippi. The film also reveals a now older and wiser man who returned to Oxford in 2013 to begin working on the college degree he once spurned. In the years in between, Neumann bounced from team to team and country to country.
The film includes exclusive interviews from Paul Finebaum, Woody Paige, and Hubie Brown. Advance digital screeners are available upon request.
About SEC Storied
ESPN Films launched the SEC Storied documentary series in September 2011, presenting fans the opportunity to explore the rich athletic history of the Southeastern Conference. From extraordinary athletes and coaches to defining games and moments, the series has featured films that focus on the SEC’s recent and more distant past, including one of the most-viewed documentaries in ESPN history, “The Book of Manning.” In 2015 SEC Storied received its first two Sports Emmy nominations for both “Outstanding Sports Documentary” and “Outstanding Music Composition/Direction/Lyrics” with the film “It’s Time: The Story of Brad Gaines and Chucky Mullins.”
SEC Network
The Southeastern Conference and ESPN launched SEC Network on August 14, 2014. The network televises over 45 SEC football games, 100 men’s basketball games, 60 women’s basketball games, 75 baseball games, and other events from across the SEC’s 21 sports annually. Programming includes in-depth analysis and storytelling in studio shows such as SEC Nation, daily news and information with SEC Now, original content such as SEC Storied and SEC Inside, and more. Hundreds of additional live events are available for streaming exclusively on SEC Network’s digital companion, SEC Network+, via WatchESPN and SECNetwork.com. The network has 70 million subscribers in the US and is also available in more than 50 countries throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa via ESPN Player, ESPN’s sports streaming service in the region.
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