Serro & Caruthers Named May 9 NCBWA National Pitcher & Player of the Week Honorable Mention

by Sports Information
5/12/06

LANCASTER, PA – Franklin & Marshall College right-handed pitcher Ted Serro (Sr., Brooklyn, NY/Xavier) and rightfielder Corey Caruthers (Sr., Conestoga, PA/Penn Manor) have been named honorable mention selections in balloting for the May 7 National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Pitcher and Player of the Week.

The award marks the second time this season Serro has been named an honorable mention selection by the NCBWA as he earned the award on April 10 for tossing a four-hit shutout with five strikeouts in a seven inning 2-0 win at #18 Johns Hopkins University on April 9.

The May 8 Centennial Conference Pitcher of the Week and a CoSIDA/ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District II selection, he earned his second NCBWA honor for tossing a two-hit 10-0 shutout of Haverford College with two walks allowed and 11 strikeouts in game one of the Centennial Conference Championship Series.

Against the Fords, Serro, the 2005 and 2006 Centennial Conference Pitcher of the Year, allowed a single in the first inning, a walk in the third, a single in the fourth and a walk in the sixth for the Fords’ only base runners as no runner advanced past second base in the game. Further, he struck out four of the final nine batters he faced while retiring 10 consecutive batters following a walk in the sixth inning to end the game and improve to 7-3 on the year with a 1.50 earned run average and 78 strikeouts in 72 innings.

For his career, he is 19-8 in 45 appearances, including 27 starts, with 11 complete games, five saves, 209 strikeouts and 52 walks in 206.1 innings as he ranks first in victories (18), second in strikeouts (209) and innings pitched (206.1) and fourth in complete games (11) in school history.

The May 8 Centennial Conference Player of the Week, Caruthers earned his first NCBWA honor as he led the Diplomats in the championship series at the plate going four-for-eight with four RBI and three runs scored in two games as the Diplomats swept Haverford 10-0 and 7-4. In game two, he keyed the Diplomats going two-for-four with four RBI as the Diplomats rallied from a 4-3 deficit to capture back-to-back crowns.

A 2006 second team and 2005 first team All-Centennial Conference selection, he is hitting .309 (42-for-136) with seven doubles, one triple, two homeruns, 28 RBI, 28 runs scored, a .419 slugging percentage, 19 walks and 15 stolen bases.

For his career, he is hitting .300 (157-for-524) with 25 doubles, five triples, five homeruns, 85 RBI, 96 runs scored, 61 walks and 53 stolen bases as he ranks third in hits and stolen bases, sixth in runs and seventh in doubles in school history.

The 2006 Centennial Conference champions, the title marked the third Centennial Conference crown in school history as the team previously won the 1995 and 2005 titles, and is the fourth title since the program’s inception in 1877 as F&M won the 1978 Middle Atlantic Conference championship.

Further, as champions of the Centennial Conference, F&M (28-9, 16-2 Centennial Conference) received the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Regional Tournament as Franklin & Marshall will make its third appearance in the NCAA field after earning the CC’s automatic bid in 1995 and 2005.

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