Ross Bennett repeated all-region honors

UW-Platteville's Ross Bennett earned his second straight American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings NCAA Division III All-Midwest Region honors.

The junior first baseman from Mequon Homestead earned second team honors in a region that contains all NCAA Division III schools in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota. He was a second-team selection in 2006 as well.

Bennett hit .357 with 13 doubles, 3 triples, 9 home runs and 37 RBIs in 2007. He is already UW-Platteville's career leader in hits (149), home runs (23), RBIs (112) and total bases (265).

The Pioneer slugger is a two-time first team all-Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference pick and was a 2007 preseason all-American by D3baseball.com.

Recent Pioneer All-Region Selections

First Team Honors

Andy Burt - 1993

Lance Taylor - 1988

Second Team Honors

Ross Bennett - 2007

Ross Bennett - 2006

Matt Northey - 1994

Third Team Honors

Ryan Levondoski - 2004

Emmanual Rivera - 2002

Merrill Brunson - 1998