May 25, 2002

St. Petersburg, Fla. - With seven All-ACC selections, the Florida State Seminoles head up the 2002 All-Atlantic Coast Conference baseball teams as selected by a vote of the league's nine head coaches. The teams, announced today at the 29th annual ACC Baseball Tournament, also include six players from Clemson, and five players from Georgia Tech and Wake Forest. North Carolina and Virginia each tab two all-conference selections followed by NC State with one selection.

Florida State's Ryan Barthelemy, Clemson's Khalil Greene and NC State's Brian Wright are all making their third-straight appearances on the all-conference team while the following players are making their second-straight appearance: Jeff Baker (Clemson), Dan Street (Virginia), Steve Reba (Clemson), Dave Bush (Wake Forest) and Matt Lynch (Florida State).

The 2002 ACC Player, Rookie and Coach of the Year will be released on Monday, May 27.

2002 ALL-ACC Baseball Team
First Team
1B - Michael Johnson, Jr., Clemson
2B - Eric Patterson, Fr., Georgia Tech
3B - Ryan Barthelemy, Sr., Florida State
SS - Khalil Greene, Sr., Clemson
C - Tony Richie, So., Florida State
OF - Adam Bourassa, Jr., Wake Forest
OF - Adam Greenberg, Jr., North Carolina
OF - Brian Wright, Sr., NC State
DH - Ryan Johnson, Jr., Wake Forest
U - Chris Maples, Sr., North Carolina
SP - Matt Lynch, Jr., Florida State
SP - Steve Reba, Sr., Clemson
SP - Kyle Sleeth, So., Wake Forest
RP - Dave Bush, Sr., Wake Forest

Second Team
1B - Jerrod Brown, Jr., Florida State
2B - Nick Blue, Jr., Wake Forest
3B - Jeff Baker, Jr., Clemson
SS - Stephen Drew, Fr., Florida State
C - Tyler Parker, Jr., Georgia Tech
OF - Tony McQuade, So., Florida State
OF - Matt Murton, So., Georgia Tech
OF - Nick Rogers, Sr., Florida State
DH - Dan Street, Sr., Virginia
U - Russell Triplett, So., Clemson
SP - Kyle Bakker, So., Georgia Tech
SP - Matt Henrie, Jr., Clemson
SP - Jeff Kamrath, So., Virginia
RP - Jeff Watchko, Jr., Georgia Tech