Enman Yields 2008 GNAC Player of the Year Honor

STANDISH, ME - The Great Northeast Athletic Conference has announced its 2008 Baseball All-Conference Awards and Saint Joseph's College (23-13, 8-6 GNAC) senior shortstop Luke Enman (Milan, NH/Berlin HS) has been tabbed the Conference Player of the Year.

During the 2008 season Enman was named as the conference player of the week twice and garnered recognition on the weekly honor roll one time. As of April 21st, he was first in the conference in slugging percentage, second in on-base percentage, third in batting average, second in hits, home runs and RBI's and fourth in runs scored.

The senior slugger leads the Monks with a .415 (49-118) batting average, .771 slugging percentage and .510 on-base percentage. He also leads the team with 49 hits, 40 runs, 38 RBI's, and 10 stolen bases.

After the 2007 season Enman was named as the North Atlantic Conference Player of the Year and the NAC Tournament Most Valuable Player. He was also listed on the NAC All-Conference First Team, D3Baseball.com All-American Second Team, ECAC DIII All-New England Second Team and the NEIBA First Team.

Enman will unquestionably go down as one of the best players in Monks baseball history. As of April 25th the four-year starter ranked first in career at-bats (567) and triples (18), second in doubles (40), third in runs (153), RBI's (159) and hits (207) and fourth in career home runs (28). His .365 career batting average is currently fifth best on the all-time list.