McCormick named as first half MVP for summer league team

Thomas McCormick

Thomas McCormick, an outfielder for the University of Missouri-Rolla baseball team, was named as the most valuable player for the first half of the season in the Central Illinois Collegiate League.

McCormick, the league's leading hitter with a .353 batting average, is playing this summer for the Quincy Gems and has six home runs and 27 runs batted in for the Gems in 31 games. He also leads the CICL with a .588 slugging percentage as 15 of his 42 hits on the season have been for extra bases and has scored 25 runs on the year.

McCormick leads the Gems in hitting, home runs, runs batted in, doubles and runs scored. Earlier this season, he was the recipient of a weekly award from the CICL.

The outfielder will be a junior at UMR next spring; he batted .286 with a team-high 20 runs batted in during the Miners' 2007 season.