NEW ORLEANS – Five University of South Alabama baseball student-athletes were named all-Sun Belt Conference, the league office announced Monday.

Catcher Jared Barnes, shortstop Drew LaBounty and outfielder Travis Swaggerty were named first-team all-SBC, while first baseman Wells Davis and outfielder Dylan Hardy earned second-team all-conference honors.

Barnes led the SBC in slugging percentage (.768) and on-base percentage (.504) during league games, tied for the lead in home runs (10), second in total bases (73) and ranked third in batting average (.368) and RBI (32). His 13 home runs this season are the most by Jaguar since Ryne Jernigan's 16 in 2008.

LaBounty finished as the league leader in walks (45) for the second straight year, and finished the regular season ranked third nationally in walks per game (1.00) and 12th in walks. LaBounty enters the tournament with 144 career walks, and needs just two to tie former Jaguar Mike Mordecai (146) for second on the career list. It marked the second straight season LaBounty has been named first-team all-SBC.

Swaggerty finished the regular season  tied for the league lead in runs scored (52) and on-base percentage (.484), ranked second in batting average (.357) and RBI (55),  third in walks (44), fifth in slugging percentage (.571) and stolen bases (18), and tied for eighth in hits (70) and home runs (10).

Davis finished the regular season ranked third in the league in RBI (54), tied for fourth in sacrifice flies (4), fifth in home runs (12) and tied for ninth in slugging percentage (.536). He finished tied for the league lead in home runs (10) in SBC games, ranked third in slugging percentage (.684), fourth in runs scored (32) and eighth in on-base percentage (.447).

Hardy led the Sun Belt Conference in batting average (.387) and hits (48) in league games this season, and hit safely in his final seven conference contests including three consecutive multiple-hit performances against Troy. 

Coastal Carolina's Billy Cooke was named the SBC Player of the Year, and Louisiana-Lafayette's Gunner Leger was the SBC Pitcher of the Year. CCU's Cory Wood was voted the SBC Freshman of the Year, Troy right-hander Andrew Crane was the Newcomer of the Year and Texas-Arlington head coach Darin Thomas was named the SBC Ron Maestri Coach of the Year.

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2017 All-Sun Belt Conference
First Team
Alex Cunningham (Coastal Carolina, Senior, SP)
Gunner Leger (Louisiana-Lafayette, Junior, SP)
Andrew Crane (Troy, RS-Junior, SP)
Wyatt Marks (Louisiana-Lafayette Junior, RP)
Jared Barnes (South Alabama, Junior, C)
Kevin Woodall, Jr. (Coastal Carolina, Junior, 1B)
Brandon Lockridge (Troy, Sophomore, 2B)
Drew LaBounty (South Alabama, Junior, SS)
Joe Robbins (Louisiana-Lafayette, Senior, 3B)
Billy Cooke (Coastal Carolina, Junior, OF)
Travis Swaggerty (South Alabama, Sophomore, OF)
Theodore Hoffman (Texas State, Junior, OF)
Omar Salinas (Texas-Arlington, Junior, DH)
Anthony Herrera (ULM, Senior, UTIL)

Second Team
Andrew Beckwith (Coastal Carolina, Senior, SP)
Jakob Hernandez (Texas-Arlington, Junior, SP)
Trae Patterson (Texas-Arlington, Junior, SP)
Daniel James (Texas-Arlington, Junior, RP)
Will Olson (Texas-Arlington, Sophomore, C)
Wells Davis (South Alabama, Sophomore, 1B)
Jonathan Ortega (Texas State, Sophomore, 2B)
Jordan Gore (Coastal Carolina, Junior, SS)
Jaylen Hubbard (Texas State, Sophomore, 3B)
Cory Wood (Coastal Carolina, Freshman, OF)
Steven Sensley (Louisiana-Lafayette, Junior, OF)
Dylan Hardy (South Alabama, Sophomore, OF)
Tyler Martin (Georgia Southern, Sophomore, DH)
Dylan Paul (Texas State, Junior, UTIL)
 
Sun Belt Baseball Player of the Year
Billy Cooke (Coastal Carolina, Junior, OF)
 
Sun Belt Baseball Pitcher of the Year
Gunner Leger (Louisiana-Lafayette, Junior, SP)

 Sun Belt Baseball Freshman of the Year
Cory Wood (Coastal Carolina, Freshman, OF)

Sun Belt Baseball Newcomer of the Year
Andrew Crane (Troy, RS-Junior, SP)
 
Sun Belt Baseball Ron Maestri Coach of the Year
Darin Thomas, Texas-Arlington