Diamond Dogs Lead SEC With 14 Academic Honor Roll Selections
May 25, 2016 | Baseball
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Mississippi State set the pace with 14 baseball players named to the 2004 Southeastern Conference Spring Academic Honor Roll announced Wednesday by SEC Commissioner Mike Slive.
The 14 are among 76 Mississippi State University student-athletes earning academic all-conference honors. A total of 774 student-athletes representing 11 spring sports (men's and women's golf, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's track, softball, baseball, women's equestrian, women's rowing, women's lacrosse) from the league's 12 member institutions are included on the honor roll list.
The MSU baseball selections include senior Tyler Scarbrough, juniors Eric Ebers, Saunders Ramsey, Daniel Tackett and Josh Thoms, sophomores Brooks Dunn, Ryan Fesmire, Brad Jones and Craig Tatum and redshirt freshmen Jon Crosby, Ben Grisham, Casey Hamilton, Ryan Harbuck and Tyler Jones.
It's the second SEC Baseball Academic Honor Roll distinction for both Ramsey and Thoms, while Dunn was a member of the inaugural SEC Freshman Honor Roll a year ago.
The honor roll is based on grades from the 2003 summer, 2003 fall and 2004 spring semesters, and true freshmen are not eligible for inclusion on the SEC Academic Honor Roll.
After Mississippi State, Tennessee placed 13, LSU, South Carolina and Vanderbilt 12 each, Florida 11, Kentucky nine, Arkansas eight, Georgia seven, Auburn five and Alabama and Mississippi three each.
Since the SEC first honored its scholar-athletes with Academic All-SEC designation in 1971, Mississippi State baseball players have received academic all-conference or honor roll status 185 times. Vanderbilt is second on the SEC's all-time baseball academic honors list with 139.
SEC BASEBALL ACADEMIC HONORS School 2004 ALL-TIME Mississippi State 14 185 Vanderbilt 12 139 Florida 11 127 Mississippi 3 123 Louisiana State 12 118 Kentucky 9 115 Arkansas 8 99 Alabama 3 98 South Carolina 12 96 Georgia 7 94 Auburn 5 90 Tennessee 13 85
