THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 8, 1994 TAG: 9406070153
SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON PAGE: 14 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY LEE TOLLIVER, BEACON SPORTS EDITOR
DATELINE: 940608 LENGTH: Medium
Cox, Green Run and First Colonial led voting by the district's coaches. Green Run, the regular season and tournament champion, also garnered coach and player of the year honors.
{REST} The Stallions' David Abbott - a junior who was picked as the second-team right-handed pitcher and second-team shortstop - was named the player of the year. His coach - Gary Spedden - was selected the coach of the year.
Spedden turned the Green Run program completely around - finishing 21-3 this season after a 4-13 effort the year before.
Abbott hit .308 with 21 runs-batted-in, and finished with a 4-1 pitching record and 0.72 earned-run-average.
Cox earned the most of the 13 first-team spots with four. Green Run and First Colonial each had three.
For the Falcons, Deke Wideman, Matt Schliske, Scott Coleman and Andy Ward were first-teamers. Pat Cecchini, David Winter and Jamie Booth made it for the Group AAA defending champion Patriots. From Green Run are Joe Clark, Chip Basnight and Chris Elmore.
Rounding out the first-teamers are Derek Lindsay and Bill Garber of Princess Anne, and Eric Stagemeyer of Salem.
Wideman is the team's senior catcher and finished the season with a .263 batting average.
He's catching for left-handed junior Chris Elmore of Green Run (2.38 ERA) and right-handed senior Andy Ward of Cox (0.79). Elmore finished with a 6-0 record and 64 strikeouts. He threw a no-hitter against Tallwood to clinch the regular-season title. He also led the Stallions in runs scored with 21. For Cox, Ward finished with a 6-2 record.
At first base is Schliske, a senior who finished with a .327 batting average. At second is Coleman, a senior with a .382 average. At third is Lindsay, a senior who at .417 finished with the second-highest average of any of the first-teamers. The shortstop is Cecchini, the only starter returning from the Patriots state championship team. The senior hit .375 and had 18 stolen bases. He finished with a .945 fielding percentage.
The coaches chose four outfielders. Clark is a junior who finished with a .361 average and 20 stolen bases, Garber is a senior who hit .398, Stagemeyer is a junior who hit .360 and Winter is a junior who coach Norbie Wilson said made some of the greatest catches he'd ever seen. He hit .358 and had three home runs.
``He made catches that no human being should have ever made,'' Wilson said.
Booth is a junior utility player who played first, pitched and was a designated hitter with a .472 average.
Basnight is a junior designated hitter who finished at .333 and one home run.
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