Baseball
Two Named to ESPN The Magazine Baseball Academic All-District Teams
Date: May 10, 2007
Location: GRANVILLE
Denison University junior pitcher James Clear (Hamilton, Ohio/Badin) and sophomore outfielder Justin Held (Hudson, Ohio/Hudson) were named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District, second-team as announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on Thursday (May 10).
Clear led the team with a 5-2 record in 10 starts for the Big Red. He finished the year with a 4.48 ERA and struck out 45 batters in 60.1 innings pitched. A biomechanics major, Clear holds a 3.76 grade point average and is the Vice President of Denison's Student Athlete Advisory Council and is a member of Denison's August Orientation group. He has a career record of 9-5 and has four career saves.
In his first season with the Big Red, Held led the team in hitting with a .400 batting average and a .615 slugging percentage. He scored 36 runs, had eight doubles, six triples and three home runs while driving in 26. He posted three, four-hit games and was the team leader with 17 multi-hit games. He is currently eighth in the NCAC in batting average, second in total hits and is tied for the league lead in triples.
Created in 1952 by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Teams Program is the premier, nationwide college scholar-athlete awards program. It recognizes 816 outstanding student-athletes annually in Division I, II, III and NAIA covering all NCAA championship sports.