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S-114-05-06
Thursday, May 25, 2006

Elizabethtown College Junior Tyler Hoffman Named to All-Mid-Atlantic Region Baseball Team

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. --- Elizabethtown College junior pitcher Tyler Hoffman (Phoenix, MD/Loyola Blakefield) has been named to the American Baseball Coaches’ Association (ABCA) All-Mid-Atlantic Region Third Team for the 2006 season. It is the first time in his career that he has received the honor.

Hoffman led Elizabethtown in wins (7), innings pitched (89) and complete games (5) in 2006, and he pitched one of the Blue Jays’ two shutouts. He walked only 18 batters in 89 innings while striking out 50, and he had a 3.84 ERA in 14 appearances and 12 starts on the mound. He was charged with just two losses in 2006. His 89 innings marked the third-highest single-season total in Elizabethtown history, and his seven wins constituted the 12th-highest single-season total at Etown.

Over the course of the 2006 season, he was named the Most Valuable Player of the Commonwealth Conference playoffs, the conference’s Pitcher of the Week one time, and he was named to the All-Commonwealth Conference Second Team for the first time in his career. In his career, Hoffman has a 10-7 win-loss record in 30 appearances and 23 starts. He has six career complete games, 141-2/3 innings pitched, 70 strikeouts and 40 walks.