Home run slugger tabbed Prospect League All Star 1st Baseman.
Chillicothe Paints first baseman Giancarlo Burgnoni made the Prospect League’s annual Post-Season All-Star Team.
The results follow a balloting of the League’s 12 Managers held the last week of the recently concluded 2012 season, the 4th in the Prospect League’s young history.
Brugnoni, a sophomore at Grand Valley State, led the Prospect League with a record 20 home runs and 66 runs batted in while batting .311 for the summer.
The voting for League Manager of the Year ended in a tie with Dubois County rookie manager and Terre Haute baseball veteran Brian Dorsett.
The 2012 All-Stars:
1B – Giancarlo Brugnoni, Chillicothe Paints (Grand Valley State)
2B – Jay Mangler, Hannibal Cavemen (Iowa)
(tie) – Jake Welch, Richmond RiverRats (Southern Illinois)
3B – Tyler Filliben, Hannibal Cavemen (Samford)
(tie) - Bradley Strong, West Virginia Miners (Western Carolina)
SS – Nick Johnson, Terre Haute Rex (Mesa CC)
LF – Mike Fitzgerald, Jr., Springfield Sliders (Lincoln Land CC)
CF – Kyle Kempf, Terre Haute Rex (Southern Indiana)
RF – Nolan Earley, Richmond RiverRats (South Alabama)
C – Clayton Prestridge, West Virginia Miners (California-Riverside)
DH – Ian Sikes, Hannibal Cavemen (Hannibal-Lagrange)
LHP – Kris Gardner, Hannibal Cavemen (Northwestern College)
RHP – Sam Lewis, West Virginia Miners (Indiana Wesleyan)
Relief – Nick Blount, Terre Haute Rex (Tennessee)
Manager – Ryan Anderson, Dubois County Bombers
(tie) – Brian Dorsett, Terre Haute Rex
Mike Schmidt Player of the Year – Matt Tellor, Springfield Sliders (Lindenwood)
Roland Hemond Prospect of the Year – Nick Blount, Terre Haute Rex (Tennessee)
(tie) – Matt Tellor, Springfield Sliders (Lindenwood)
Galen Wood Fireman of the Year – Nick Blount, Terre Haute (Tennessee)
