LOS ANGELES — After being named the Most Valuable Player of the Cape Cod League on Aug. 8, LSU second baseman Mike Fontenot was named a Baseball America First Team Summer All-American, the publication announced on Wednesday.
Fontenot, who will be a sophomore in the 2001 season, led the Wareham Gatemen in batting average and stolen bases while finishing fourth and second in the league, respectively. He also finished fifth in the league in on-base percentage.
Wareham reached the League’s Western Division playoff before being eliminated by the Hyannis Mets in a three-game series. Hyannis then lost consecutive games to the Brewster Whitecaps, which went home with the 2000 Arnold Mycock Cape League Championship Trophy.
Primarily the team’s No. 2 hitter, Fontenot finished the regular season batting .322 (39-of-121) with 22 runs, 14 RBI, one double, two triples, one homer and 25-of-33 stolen bases while committing only four errors.
The second baseman played in only 34 of Wareham’s 43 games due to the College World Series Championship.
Summer All-Americans
FIRST TEAM
C-Rock Mills, Northern Ohio/Great Lakes (Pepperdine), .399-12-59. 1B-Jeremy Brown, Northern Ohio/Great Lakes (Alabama), .391-10-47. 2B-Mike Fontenot, Wareham/Cape Cod (LSU), .322-1-14, 25 SB. 3B-Mark Teixeira, Team USA (Georgia Tech), .385-5-23. SS-Bobby Crosby, Team USA (Long Beach State), .294-2-21. OF-Danny Garcia, Peninsula/Alaska (Pepperdine), .387-5-33, 25 SB; Todd Linden, Chatham/Cape Cod (Washington), .322-4-25, 18 SB; Brian Stavisky, Hyannis/Cape Cod (Notre Dame), .324-2-26. DH-Scott Hairston, Liberal/Jayhawk (Central Arizona JC), .348-6-39.
SP-Dewon Brazelton, Team USA (Middle Tennessee State), 6-0, 0.65; Bob Brownlie, Falmouth/Cape Cod (Rutgers), 4-2, 2.01; Len DiNardo, Team USA (Stetson), 5-0, 2.03; Mark Prior, Team USA (Southern California), 3-2, 1.60; Chris Young, Chatham/Cape Cod (Princeton), 4-2, 1.86. RP-Kirk Saarloos, Team USA (Cal State Fullerton), 3-0, 0.34, 4 SV.
SECOND TEAM
C-Tyler Parker, Wareham/Cape Cod (Georgia Tech), .272-1-19, 18 SB. 1B-Josh Holthaus, St. Cloud/Northwoods (Minnesota), .369-8-51. 2B-Chris Burke, Team USA (Tennessee), .376-0-9, 19 SB. 3B-Kevin Wissner, Middletown/New England (Connecticut), .367-6-38. SS-Victor Menocal, Northern Ohio/Great Lakes (Georgia Tech), .338-0-17. OF-Joe Hastings, Staunton/Shenandoah Valley (East Carolina), .306-7-29; Tim Merritt, Team USA (South Alabama), .303-4-20; Steve Stanley, Brewster/Cape Cod (Notre Dame), .329-0-9. DH-Jake Gautreau, Team USA (Tulane), .348-4-20.
SP-Matt Coenen, Hyannis/Cape Cod (Charleston Southern), 5-0, 1.99; Buddy Hernandez, Wilmington/Coastal Plain (N.C. Wesleyan), 4-2, 1.13; Steve Kelly, Orleans/Cape Cod (Georgia Tech), 7-1, 2.86; Cory Metzler, Liberal/Jayhawk (Texas Tech), 8-3, 1.87; Tony O’Donnell, Danville/Central Illinois (Austin Peay), 9-0, 1.23. RP-David Bush, Chatham/Cape Cod (Wake Forest), 0-1, 0.84, 11 SV.