Brandon Cogan

Brandon Cogan, a freshman on the University of Missouri-Rolla baseball team, has been named to the Daktronics All-Great Lakes region first team for the recently completed 2007 season.

By being named to the first team in the program which is in its inaugural year, Cogan will be on the national ballot for All-America honors. That team will be released late next week in conjunction with the Division II World Series in Montgomery, Ala.

Cogan was selected to the team as a utility player, the same spot in which he earned first-team honors from the Great Lakes Valley Conference. He finished the season as the Miners' leading hitter and was one of the team's top starting pitchers for much of the 2007 campaign.

Cogan split time between pitching and second base this season and ended the 2007 season with a .351 average and 13 runs batted in. On the mound, he was 3-2 with a 3.34 earned run average in 35 innings of work; he also posted a shutout in a 1-0 victory over Lewis in late March.

The Miners finished the 2007 season with a 20-27 record.

DAKTRONICS ALL-GREAT LAKES REGION TEAM
First team selections
SP: Nick Beach, Grand Valley State
SP: Matt Marksbury, Northern Kentucky
SP: Danny Richard, Grand Valley State
SP: Michael Thompson, Bellarmine
RP: Joe Panozzo, Saint Joseph's
C: Scott Hauber, Quincy
1B: Jon Weisman, Wayne State (Mich.)
2B: Spud McKenzie, Grand Valley State
3B: Casey Jirsa, Ashland
SS: Cory Bunner, SIU Edwardsville
OF: Tony Hines, Wayne State (Mich.)
OF: David Lough, Mercyhurst
OF: Hunter Slade, Southern Indiana
DH: Brian Sampsel, Findlay
UT: Brandon Cogan, Missouri-Rolla