Five LSUS Pilots named to All-GCAC team 05/02/03

The LSUS Pilots placed more players - five - on the All-Conference baseball team than any other school in the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference.

The team was announced late Wednesday after the first two games of the four-team, double-elimination conference tournament being played on the home field of regular-season champion William Carey College.

Pilots named to the All-Conference Team are: infielders Gary Moraes, of Surry, British Columbia, Canada, and Wesley Gray, of Shreveport (Northwood High School); outfielders Alan Cantwell, of Saint John, New Brunswick, and Cole Reynolds, of Heflin, La. (Sibley/Lakeside High School), and pitcher Ian Doiron, of Houma, La.

Doiron, with a 7-4 season record, had more starts (15) than any other Pilot pitcher, and had the best earned-run average (3.06) of all pitchers appearing in more than three games. On the season, he pitched 70.2 innings, gave up 84 hits, 35 runs (24 earned), 18 walks and struck out 47 batters. He pitched two complete games.

The four fielders named to the All-Conference Team had the top four batting averages for the Pilots, who finished the regular season with an overall record of 34-26 and a conference record of 18-12.

Reynolds led the team in hitting with a .430 average, followed by Cantwell (.382), Moraes (.366) and Gray (.339). Moraes was the only Pilot to start in all 60 games, followed closely by Reynolds, the only player to start 59 games. Gray appeared in 55 games, starting 54, and Cantwell appeared in 48 games with 44 starts.

Reynolds led the team with 200 at-bats, followed by Moraes, who batted in the clean-up slot, with 194. Gray went to the plate 177 times, and Cantwell faced 152 opposing pitchers. The four also led the Pilots in hits and runs: Reynolds, 86-50; Moraes, 71-51; Gray, 60-48, and Cantwell, 58-52. Moraes' 11 home runs was the season high for the Pilots, and he added one more in the Pilots' conference tournament win over William Carey Wednesday.