Charlie Madden Named Perfect Game Midseason All-American

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – A dominant opening half of the 2017 campaign has landed Mercer senior Charlie Madden on the Midseason Perfect Game/Rawlings All-America Second Team, as announced by the organization's staff Thursday morning.

Madden was named to the Midseason All-America Second Team as a designated hitter and is the only Southern Conference player named to either the first or second teams. He has made 10 of his 31 starts at DH, the other 21 being at catcher.

A two-time SoCon Player of the Week so far this season, Madden is batting a career-best .316 in 114 at bats and ranks second nationally with 13 home runs. His SoCon-leading 35 runs scored, 36 RBIs, 87 total bases and .763 slugging percentage are all top-10 marks nationally as well.

Madden's midseason All-America nod makes it the second straight year a Mercer student-athlete has been named to Perfect Game's list as he joins Kyle Lewis, who was a 2016 Midseason All-America First Team selection.

The Atlanta native has helped Mercer to its best start in program history with a 25-6 (5-1 SoCon) record. Mercer welcomes Samford to OrthoGeorgia Park for a SoCon series this weekend, starting with a 6 p.m. first pitch Friday, April 7. The Friday game will be broadcasted on the American Sports Network (ASN) and radio the flagship station 97.3 FM The Bull Icons and on the iHeartRadio app.

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Midseason Perfect Game/Rawlings College Baseball All-American Teams
(Statistics for games played through Monday, April 3)

First Team

Pos.	Player	School	AVG	OBP	SLG	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB
C	Joey Bart	Georgia Tech	0.345	0.419	0.727	24	38	9	0	11	31	2
1B	Ben Fisher	Eastern Kentucky	0.412	0.5	0.895	43	47	10	0	15	44	0
2B	Jake Scheiner	Houston	0.415	0.467	0.821	21	44	11	1	10	33	1
3B	Jake Burger	Missouri State	0.387	0.473	0.774	30	41	8	0	11	31	2
SS	Kevin Merrell	South Florida	0.427	0.504	0.641	29	44	7	3	3	18	16
OF	Brent Rooker	Mississippi State	0.422	0.511	0.89	24	46	18	3	9	43	14
OF	Keston Hiura	UC Irvine	0.391	0.505	0.759	23	34	14	0	6	21	1
OF	Jared Oliva	Arizona	0.349	0.421	0.613	30	37	12	2	4	35	6
DH	Ryan Flick	Tennessee Tech	0.393	0.475	0.718	36	46	17	0	7	32	1
UT	Brendan McKay	Louisville	0.417	0.532	0.679	24	35	5	1	5	20	0

Pos.	Player	School	ERA	W-L	CG	SV	IP	H	SO	BB	BAA
SP	Luke Hemlich	Oregon State	0.52	5-0	1	0	52	26	55	10	0.145
SP	J.B. Bukauskas	North Carolina	0.96	5-0	0	0	47	24	70	11	0.151
SP	Steven Gingery	Texas Tech	0.92	6-0	0	0	48.2	26	54	13	0.156
SP	Jared Poche	Louisiana State	1.15	6-1	1	0	47	29	31	10	0.178
SP	J.C. Cloney	Arizona	1.75	6-0	0	0	46.1	33	34	9	0.195
RP	Nick Sandlin	Southern Miss	0	5-0	0	3	24	9	37	10	0.114
RP	T.J. Sikkema	Missouri	0.47	5-0	0	3	38	18	49	8	0.143
UT	Brendan McKay	Louisville	1.18	4-1	0	0	38	25	57	9	0.187

Second Team

Pos.	Player	School	AVG	OBP	SLG	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB
C	Grant Koch	Arkansas	0.319	0.423	0.604	20	29	6	1	6	27	3
1B	Gavin Sheets	Wake Forest	0.31	0.387	0.621	30	36	7	1	9	43	0
2B	Braden Shewmake	Texas A&M	0.365	0.397	0.563	24	46	12	2	3	34	8
3B	Taylor Schwaner	Southeastern Louisiana	0.39	0.5	0.74	27	39	6	4	7	39	8
SS	Nick Madrigal	Oregon State	0.406	0.47	0.574	25	41	8	0	3	17	8
OF	Jeren Kendall	Vanderbilt	0.325	0.418	0.667	33	39	5	3	10	29	10
OF	Griffin Conine	Duke	0.322	0.43	0.619	33	38	10	2	7	34	7
OF	Tyler Adkison	San Diego State	0.437	0.544	0.859	20	31	7	1	7	28	3
DH	*Charlie Madden*	*Mercer*	*0.312*	*0.445*	*0.752*	33	34	12	0	12	34	0
UT	Adam Haseley	Virginia	0.398	0.5	0.704	31	43	7	1	8	25	7

Pos.	Player	School	ERA	W-L	CG	SV	IP	H	SO	BB	BAA
SP	David Peterson	Oregon	2.14	6-1	0	0	46.1	41	66	4	0.233
SP	Jake Irvin	Oklahoma	1.16	5-0	0	0	31	21	42	8	0.189
SP	Kutter Crawford	Florida Gulf Coast	1.04	5-0	0	1	34.2	20	49	11	0.163
SP	Jared Janczak	Texas Christian	2.05	5-0	0	0	48.1	22	50	12	0.135
SP	Gunner Leger	Louisiana	1.27	5-1	0	0	42.2	27	48	11	0.186
RP	Nate Harris	Louisiana Tech	0.76	3-0	1	7	35.1	21	50	3	0.163
RP	Logan Salow	Kentucky	0.41	0-2	0	6	22	11	31	6	0.151
UT	Adam Haseley	Virginia	3.43	4-1	0	0	42	42	31	10	0.264

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