Mount Pleasant, Mich. (June 25, 2003) - Senior second baseman Justin Christian was named to his second All-American team today as the American Baseball Coaches Association named him to their third team. Christian was previously named a third team All-American by TPX and the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper.

Christian was the Rookie of the Year this season in the OVC after finishing in the top ten in ten different categories. He was second in stolen bases, third in triples, fourth in homers, fifth in hits, runs, slugging, and total bases, seventh in RBI and batting average and tenth in on base percentage. Overall, he was second on the team in batting average with a .376 mark and third in homers and RBI with 13 and 48, respectively.

He joins Eastern Kentucky's Josh Anderson (second team) as the lone representatives from the OVC.

The American Baseball Coaches Association is made up 5,500 members, including coaches from every state in the country and over 200 international members.

2003 American Baseball Coaches Association
NCAA Division I All-Americans


FIRST TEAM
C - Ryan Garko, Stanford
1B - Mike Aubrey, Tulane
2B - Rickie Weeks, Southern
3B - Jamie D'Antona, Wake Forest
SS - Dustin Pedroia, Arizona State
DH - Jeremy West, Arizona State
UT - Mitch Maier, Toledo
OF - Jeremy Cleveland, UNC Chapel Hill
OF - Clint King, Southern Mississippi
OF - Dustin Majewski, Texas
SP - Jeff Niemann, Rice
SP - Tim Stauffer, Richmond
SP - Scott Lewis, Ohio State
SP - Jared Weaver, Long Beach State
RP - Huston Street, Texas
RP - Ryan Wagner, Houston

SECOND TEAM
C - Tony Richie, Florida State
1B - Matt Hopper, Nebraska
1B - Eddie Kim, James Madison
2B - Steve Sollmann, Notre Dame
2B - Marc Tugwell, Virginia Tech
3B - Brian Buscher, South Carolina
SS - Aaron Hill, LSU
SS - Omar Quintanilla, Texas
DH - Ryan Braun, Miami
OF - Josh Anderson, Eastern Kentucky
OF - Michael Brown, William & Mary
OF - Jordan Foster, Lamar
OF - Josh McCurdy, Niagara
OF - Brad Snyder, Ball State
SP - Abe Alvarez, Long Beach State
SP - David Marchbanks, South Carolina
SP - Justin Orenduff, VCU
SP - Trent Peterson, Florida State
SP - Vern Sterry, North Carolina State
RP - Chad Cordero, Cal State Fullerton
RP - Daniel Hodges, Florida State

THIRD TEAM
C - Tim D'Aquila, Central Connecticut
C - Brian Rose, Florida
1B - Humberto Aguilar, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
1B - Jeff Larish, Arizona State
2B - Justin Christian, Southeast Missouri
3B - Adam Fox, Ohio
SS - Mike Rozema, St. Johns
DH - David Coffey, Georgia
DH - Adam Crowder, Kent State
OF - Brian Anderson, Arizona
OF - Adam Boeve, Northern Iowa
OF - Jeff Cook, Southern Mississippi
OF - Shane Costa, Cal State Fullerton
OF - Ryan Mulhern, South Alabama
SP - Randy Beam, Florida Atlantic
SP - Chuck Bechtel, Marist
SP - J.P. Howell, Texas
SP - Paul Maholm, Mississippi State
SP - Brad Ziegler, SMS
RP - Matt Dalton, Virginia Tech
RP - Thomas Pauly, Evansville