PENSACOLA, Fla. – The University of West Alabama baseball team placed three on the American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings All-South Region Teams. Rob Dahlberg was selected to the First Team at first base, while Nick Wheeler and Mike Schmitt were each tabbed as members of the Second Team.

Each member of the First Team will be eligible for NCAA Division II All-American consideration, which will be selected on Sunday, May 24, 2009 in Cary, NC in conjunction with the Division II National Championship Tournament.

Dahlberg, a Gilbertown, Ala.-native, finished his four-year career as the school’s all-time leader in games played, at-bats, runs, hits and stolen bases and is ranked in the top five all-time in seven additional categories. Dahlberg finished the 2009 season as the team leader in hits with 81 and stolen bases with 30 along with being second on the team in RBI with 60.

Wheeler, a native of Hokes Bluff, Ala., finished the 2009 campaign as the team leader with 64 RBI and was third on the team in hits with 75, while ranked second on the team in homeruns 12.

Schmitt, a Cheyenne-Wyo.-product, racked up 90 1/3 innings on the mound in his final season with the Tigers, which led all hurlers. The right hander also collected 63 strikeouts, second best on the team, while recording a 10-3 record. The 10 wins tied for most on the team.

The trio of baseball performers was all named to the 2009 All-Gulf South Conference First Team earlier this season.

West Alabama wrapped up the 2009 season with a 38-16 record. UWA earned the 2009 GSC East Division title, earning a berth in the GSC Baseball Tournament, and made its seventh appearance in the NCAA Division II Baseball Championships, grabbing the No. 3-seed in the South Region.