IUP senior third baseman Tyler Wise and freshman shortstop Paul Bingham have been selected as second team All-PSAC West performers for the 2007 season by the league’s head coaches.

Wise, a graduate of Bedford High School, played only one season at IUP but left his mark on the school record book.  He played in 46 games with 45 starts and batted .400 (58-for-145) with 14 doubles, two triples, seven home runs, 34 runs scored and 30 RBIs. 

He ranked second in the PSAC in home runs, slugging percentage (.669) and on-base percentage (.503) while placing third in the league in total bases (97), fourth in doubles and walks (25) and seventh in batting average.

Wise finished the season riding an 11-game hitting streak and hit safely in 21 of the final 23 games of the year.  He had 16 multiple hit games and went consecutive games without a base hit only once the entire season.

In the IUP single season record book, Wise ranks in tie for first in doubles, tied for second in total bases, tied for third in home runs, fourth in hits and fifth in slugging percentage.  Including the 2005 season at Shippensburg, Wise had 20 doubles, 14 home runs and 64 RBI in two seasons playing in the PSAC.

Bingham, a graduate of South Western High School in Hanover, had an outstanding debut season for the Crimson Hawks, batting a team-leading .409 (56-for-137) with six doubles, four triples, 38 runs scored and 13 RBIs in 45 games including 43 starts.  He was sixth in the PSAC in batting, first in triples and third in on-base percentage (.500).

Bingham stole 16 bases and was not thrown out once to rank seventh in the conference in thefts.  He finished the year with 16 multiple hit games, including five with three hits, and had a team-best 12-game hitting streak.  He was named the PSAC West Player of the Week on March 19 after batting .529 over the first 12 games of the season.

Bingham joined Wise as the first pair of IUP teammates to reach the .400 mark in the same season since Steve Murray and Kevin Schneider did so in 1997.  In addition to having the 11^th best single season batting average in school history, Bingham also ranks in a tie for second in runs scored, fourth in stolen bases and fifth in hits.

IUP finished the 2007 season with a record of 20-28 and 10-10 in the PSAC West.  The Crimson Hawks doubled their win total from the previous year and were in the hunt for a berth in the PSAC playoffs until the final weekend of the season.

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