KENNESAW, Ga. – The recognition and accolades from a record-breaking season continue for the Kennesaw State baseball team as head coach Mike Sansing and All-American catcher Max Pentecost will be honored this week.
 
Sansing, who guided the Owls to their first Atlantic Sun Conference title and NCAA Division I postseason appearance, and Pentecost, who was named a first-team All-American and winner of the Johnny Bench Award as the country's top collegiate catcher, will be recognized as the Georgia Dugout Club's 2014 Division I Coach of the Year and Player of the Year, respectively, by the Georgia Baseball Coaches Association.
 
Sansing and Pentecost will be honored on Saturday, Jan. 17 during the second day of the 2015 Georgia Dugout Club Coaches Clinic at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Atlanta.
 
In his 23rd season as head coach of the Owls, Sansing guided KSU to a 40-24 overall record, the Tallahassee Regional title and a trip to the Louisville Super Regional. Kennesaw State concluded the year ranked No. 13 by Collegiate Baseball.
 
Among the single-season records the Owls established a year ago were most Division I wins (40), and longest winning streak (16). KSU also became the first team since 1993 and fifth all-time to win a regional in its first appearance.
 
Pentecost produced a year that will be difficult to duplicate as he led the nation with 113 hits and finished second in the country with a .422 average and 168 total bases while totaling nine home runs and 61 RBI. He was named the A-Sun Conference's Player of the Year, selected a finalist for the Gregg Olson Award and semifinalist for the Dick Howser and Golden Spikes Awards.
 
The Winder, Ga. native capped his spring by becoming the No. 11 overall selection by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 2014 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.
 
Kennesaw State has begun practice for the 2015 season and will open the year on Feb. 13 when it hosts Liberty at Stillwell Stadium beginning at 4 p.m.
 
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