May 31, 2005

Bowling Green, Ohio - Bowling Green State University's Burke Badenhop (First Team) and Andy Hudak (Third Team) have been named 2005 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-Americans. Badenhop becomes just the second Falcon baseball player to be named to the first team while Hudak is just the second Falcon to be named to the third team.

Both were seniors on this year's BGSU squad that finished 33-18 and advanced to the Mid-American Conference Tournament for the first time since 2002. BGSU joins Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, the College of Charleston, Michigan, and Wichita State as the only schools with two representatives among the 33 student-athletes honored.

Badenhop joins Bruce Rasor (catcher, 1970) as the only Falcons to be named CoSIDA Academic All-America first-team members. Badenhop was named BGSU's Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year in April and earned his degree in economics on May 7 with a 3.94 GPA. He finished with a MAC-high nine victories this year, the most by a Falcon since 1999, while tying for the team-lead with 11 starts. His 3.73 ERA was a career-low and third-best on the Falcon squad. His 56 strikeouts, 72.1 IPP, and two complete games were also career-bests for the Perrysburg native. He was named MAC Pitcher of the Week and MAC Scholar-Athlete of the Week on April 11 after pitching his first career, complete-game shutout vs. Buffalo on April 10 (1-0 win). Badenhop ended his career fourth all-time at BGSU in appearances (70) and victories (17), while he was sixth in career IPP (234.2) and eighth in career strikeouts (177).

Andy Hudak

Hudak joins John Maroli (pitcher, 1984) as the only Falcons to be named CoSIDA Academic All-America third-team members. He has a 3.52 GPA while majoring in interpersonal language arts. The Toledo native finished this season with a team-high .361 batting average and was the only Falcon to start in every one of BGSU's 51 games. He led the Falcons with 194 at-bats, 70 hits and 21 multiple-hit games. He was second on the team with 50 runs, 12 doubles, 54 RBIs, 114 total bases, a .588 slugging pct., and .468 on-base pct. Hudak was named MAC West Player of the Week and MAC Scholar-Athlete of the Week twice this season. He ended his career fourth all-time in RBIs (159) and doubles (45), fifth all-time in batting avg. (.367) and total bases (338), sixth all-time in hits (209) and runs (151), eighth all-time in walks (100), and tied for ninth all-time in home runs (26).