Baseball: Team Award Winners Announced
June 03, 2003 03:49 PM | General
June 3, 2003
 Rine |
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 Posluszny |
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 Cline |
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- West Virginia University baseball coach Greg Van Zant announced today the team award winners for the 2003 season. Jarod Rine was named the position player MVP, Zac Cline earned pitching MVP honors and Stan Posluszny was awarded the rookie of the year.
Rine, the BIG EAST player of the year, finished the season batting .403 with 12 doubles and nine home runs in centerfield for West Virginia. He became just the 10th player in WVU history to finish the season batting over .400 and was the first Mountaineer to earn BIG EAST player of the year honors. Rine, a native of Moundsville, W.Va., slugged .624 and was a perfect 14-14 in stolen base attempts. His 42 career stolen bases are second all-time at WVU.
Cline, a second team all-BIG EAST pick, was one of WVU's aces on the mound this season. Cline posted a 12-3 record with a 3.44 ERA. His 125.2 innings pitched were the most in school history, his 12 wins are second in a season at WVU and he became just the eighth Mountaineer to have over 100 strikeouts in a season. Cline, a Union City, Pa., native also threw the second one-hitter in BIG EAST tournament history on his way to blanking Virginia Tech.
Posluszny became the first player from WVU to be named BIG EAST rookie of the year after batting .340 with five home runs and 31 RBI as the team's designated hitter. Fourteen of his 33 hits went for extra bases as the redshirt freshman from Aliquippa, Pa., slugged .598 (third-best on the team).
