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 Jared Noteboom, a senior second baseman from South Sioux City, Neb., has been named to the honorable mention list of the 2010 NAIA All-America Baseball Team.
Noteboom slugged a school-record 19 home runs this season to break the former Morningside record of 16 home runs set by Jason Engleman last year. Noteboom was the Mustangs’ leading hitter with 63 hits in 161 at-bats for a .391 batting average with 17 doubles, two triples, a team-high 67 RBIs and 33 base on balls, 15 stolen bases, and 62 runs scored. He also led the Mustangs with an .876 slugging percentage and a .519 on-base percentage.
He was also a NAIA honorable mention All-American as a junior.
Noteboom finished his Morningside career with 193 hits in 537 at-bats for a .359 batting average with 52 doubles, six triples, 36 home runs, 155 RBIs, 33 stolen bases, and 144 runs scored.
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 Kelly Kotlik, a junior first baseman from Bellevue, Neb., has been named a Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete in the sport of baseball.
Kotlik has a 3.60 cumulative grade point average (GPA) with majors in business administration and Spanish. He batted .353 with eight doubles, six home runs, and 66 RBIs this past season.
Student-athletes must be of at least junior academic status and have a minimum GPA of 3.50 in order to be eligible for Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete honors.
Morningside posted a 28-28 record during the 2010 season and finished fourth in the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) standings with a 15-9 league mark.
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Morningside College broke four school records and tied another during the 2010 baseball season.
The Mustangs stole a school-record 118 bases this season to shatter their former single-season best of 98 stolen bases they set last season. Morningside’s hitters produced 18 triples to top the previous school record of 16 triples in 2005.
Bret Hoch, a senior outfielder from South Sioux City, Neb., played a major role in helping the Mustangs break their triple and stolen base records.
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 Bret Hoch, a senior outfielder from South Sioux City, Neb.; and Jared Noteboom, a senior second baseman from South Sioux City, were both named to the 2010 All-Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Baseball First-Team as selected by the league’s head coaches.
In addition to their two first-team selections, the Mustangs also had six other players named to either the second-team or the honorable mention list.
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Jared Noteboom, a senior second baseman from South Sioux City, Neb.; and Wade Morrison, a senior pitcher from Arroyo Grande, Calif., received the Most Valuable Player and Most Valuable Pitcher awards at Morningside College’s baseball awards banquet held on Sunday.
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 Bill Meacham, a junior third baseman from Sioux City, has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Baseball Player of the Week.
Meacham collected 12 hits in 18 at-bats for a .667 batting average with three doubles, one triple, one home run, and eight RBIs to help lead the Mustangs to a 4-1 record last week. He went three-for-three with a double, triple, two RBIs, and three runs scored in a 15-5 non-conference win against Dana College and went three-for-three with two doubles and three RBIs in a 10-3 GPAC triumph against Nebraska Wesleyan University.
Meacham is riding a nine-game hitting streak. He has 18 hits in 31 at-bats for a .581 batting average with 11 RBIs over the last nine games to raise his season’s average from .293 to .366.
Morningside has won six of its last seven games and will take a 22-20 record into a Tuesday non-conference game against Briar Cliff University at 4 p.m. at Lewis & Clark Park.
 Morningside has been tabbed for a fourth place finish in the GPAC Baseball Coaches’ Pre-Season Poll.
The Mustangs, who received three of the 13 first place votes, are coming off a 2009 season where they posted a 31-25 record and finished sixth in the GPAC with a 13-11 league mark.
Morningside returns four first-team All-GPAC players from last year, including GPAC Pitcher of the Year Wade Morrison and 2008 GPAC Player of the Year Bret Hoch.
Click here for the 2010 GPAC Baseball Coaches’ Pre-Season Poll.
 Jared Noteboom, a senior second baseman from South Sioux City, Neb., has been named to the 17-player 2010 NAIA Pre-Season All-America baseball team.
Noteboom earned honorable mention NAIA All-America honors last season when he hit .366 with 22 doubles, one triple, 12 home runs, and 60 RBIs. His 22 doubles was a Morningside single-season record.
The Mustangs posted a 31-25 record in the 2009 season.
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