Bowling Green State University Athletics
Burke Badenhop Named Academic All-America First Team, Andy Hudak Named to Third Team
May 31, 2005 | Baseball
May 31, 2005
Bowling Green, Ohio - Bowling Green State University's Burke Badenhop (First Team) and Andy Hudak (Third Team) have been named 2005 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-Americans. Badenhop becomes just the second Falcon baseball player to be named to the first team while Hudak is just the second Falcon to be named to the third team.
Both were seniors on this year's BGSU squad that finished 33-18 and advanced to the Mid-American Conference Tournament for the first time since 2002. BGSU joins Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, the College of Charleston, Michigan, and Wichita State as the only schools with two representatives among the 33 student-athletes honored.
Badenhop joins Bruce Rasor (catcher, 1970) as the only Falcons to be named CoSIDA Academic All-America first-team members. Badenhop was named BGSU's Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year in April and earned his degree in economics on May 7 with a 3.94 GPA. He finished with a MAC-high nine victories this year, the most by a Falcon since 1999, while tying for the team-lead with 11 starts. His 3.73 ERA was a career-low and third-best on the Falcon squad. His 56 strikeouts, 72.1 IPP, and two complete games were also career-bests for the Perrysburg native. He was named MAC Pitcher of the Week and MAC Scholar-Athlete of the Week on April 11 after pitching his first career, complete-game shutout vs. Buffalo on April 10 (1-0 win). Badenhop ended his career fourth all-time at BGSU in appearances (70) and victories (17), while he was sixth in career IPP (234.2) and eighth in career strikeouts (177).
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