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The Daktronics All-Central Region Teams have been announced and Mitch Walser (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) has earned 1st Team honors. Walser was named to the All-Central Region 1st Team along with three other Northern Sun student-athletes. Walser has already been named to the Northern Sun All-Conference 1st Team, ESPN the Magazine’s Academic All-District Second Team, and Upper Iowa’s male representative for the NSIC Honor Student-Athlete Award Winner. With his recognition on the Daktronics All-Central Region 1st Team, Walser is now nominated for All-American honors through Daktronics.
Walser hit .427 (73-171) with 15 doubles, a pair of triples, and 11 homeruns to earn first team honors as an outfielder. The senior right fielder drove in 64 runs while scoring 53 and registering a .731 slugging percentage and a .505 on base percentage. Walser also stole 11 of 11 bases. The Cedar Rapids native led the team in several categories including batting average, runs, total hits, doubles, triples, homeruns, rbi’s, slugging percentage and on base percentage while playing in and starting all 50 games for the Peacocks this season. His two-year totals with the Peacocks are very impressive. Walser hit .399 (143-358) with 31 doubles, 4 triples, and 16 homeruns. The Kirkwood transfer scored 90 runs while driving in 118 UIU base runners and stole 14 of 17 bases. Walser played in and started every one of the Peacocks’ 100 games over the last two years as well. Walser set one new record for the baseball program this spring as he drove in 64 Peacocks breaking the old record of 57 by Max Edmond in 1998. The Peacocks finished the season with a 29-21 record overall and an 18-11 mark, good for fifth place, in their inaugural season in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. Upper Iowa finished the Northern Sun Conference regular season with the second most wins trailing only conference leader Wayne State. |
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