NETZEL CAPTURES ALL NAIA REGION VII HONORS
For
Immediate Release
May 11, 2007
Senior shortstop Brad Netzel (Kankakee H.S./Kankakee, IL) was named to the 18-player all-NAIA Region VII Baseball Team. The squad consists of nine players from the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference and nine from the Midwest Classic Conference.
Netzel was USF's lone first-team all-CCAC selection. He led the Saints in hitting with a .412 average and started all 52 USF games at shortstop. He also topped the Saints with 18 doubles, 80 total hits, 52 runs scored, 103 total bases, 15 sacrifice bunts and a .531 slugging percentage. His 34 RBI ranked second on the club. Defensively, he excelled and was charged with only 6 errors in 285 total chances for a percentage of .979.
Netzel also was one of two USF recipients of the CCAC Gold Glove award. Each conference in the NAIA gives out one Gold Glove per position. Netzel and fellow middle infielder Steve Witczak (St.Rita H.S./Chicago, IL), who formed one of the top double-play combinations in the CCAC, each were recognized for defensive excellence.
The
Saints completed their season with a 32-20 mark
and finished in a four-way tie for second in the CCAC regular-season standings with a 13-7 league mark. USF then won a tie-breaking playoff to earn the No. 2 seed in the Region VII tourney where it lost games to tourney runnerup Mount Mercy and eventual Region VII champion St. Ambrose (IA).
