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Chad Palmer of Fallston and Russell Harrell of Joppatowne; HCC lacrosse duo all-conference

Aegis staff

Posted 6/03/09

Harford Community College sophomore lacrosse players Chad Palmer (Fallston) and Russell Harrell (Joppatowne) have been named to the Region XX and Maryland Junior College Athletic Conference All-Region and All-Conference teams, the conference and region offices announced recently.

Palmer picks up second team honors for the second straight year, while Harrell was named to the honorable mention squad during his first year with the Fighting Owls.

Palmer led Harford this season with 45 goals and 20 assists for a total of 65 points and currently ranks ninth in the country in goals scored, tied for 11th in total points and tied for 38th in assists.

Harrell assisted on four goals during the season, but showed his real talent at the faceoff, where he was successful in 51 of 111 attempts for a .459 faceoff percentage, second on the team behind freshman Steve Taylor (C. Milton Wright).

CCBC-Essex led the annual awards after claiming the 2009 Region XX championship title with a 12-7 win over Anne Arundel. Head coach Brian Duncan and Michael Colonell picked up both MDJUCO and Region XX Coach of the Year and Offensive Player of the Year honors, respectively.

Anne Arundel’s Thomas Sullivan rounded out the major awards by earning the Defensive Player of the Year nod for both the MDJUCO and Region XX.

Baseball

Freshman Joe Harbach (Edgewood) has been named to the Region XX All-Region First-Team, Maryland Junior College Athletic Conference All-Conference First-Team, Region XX Gold Glove and MDJUCO Gold Glove teams, the conference and region announced recently.

Harbach, an outfielder and pitcher for Harford, led the Fighting Owls team with a .413 average on the season with 57 hits, 42 runs scored, 18 doubles, three triples and 35 RBI as well as a .630 slugging and .500 on-base percentage. On the mound, the rookie paced the Owls with a 1.79 ERA, which currently ranks 21st in the country, over 45.1 innings pitched and struck out 33 for a 6.55 strikeout/nine inning ratio.

Harbach was equally as impressive in the field, posting a .977 fielding percentage in the 39 games that he played in centerfield with just two errors in 87 chances that helped him garner the Gold Glove nod for both the conference and the region. With the selection to the region Gold Glove team, Harbach is automatically advanced as a finalist for the district team and possibly the national award presented from Rawlings.

Harbach wouldn’t be the first recipient from Harford if he is selected for the award, as former player Brian Wolfe was named the national Rawlings Gold Glove winner as a pitcher for the 2008 season.

Softball

Harford softball sophomore Jourdan Harmon has been named to the MDJUCO All-Conference First Team and All-Region XX Second Team, the conference and region announced recently.

Harmon is the second Fighting Owl player in two years to be named to both yearly award teams as Cynthia Foster garnered the same accolades for the 2008 season.

Harmon led the team in nearly every statistical category during the 2008 season and finished the regular season on four MDJUCO top-10 charts.

The sophomore ranked fifth in the conference with a .481 average for the regular season and finished play with a team-leading 53 hits in 109 at-bats for a .486 average over 36 games. Twenty-one of those hits fell during the final month of the season, which saw Harmon hit in 13 consecutive games to end the season.

Harmon was also tops on the team with an incredible .752 slugging percentage, thanks to her team-best 16 doubles and three homers and second-best tie with two triples, and brought in 31 runs, which ranked in a tie for fifth in the MDJUCO.

Harmon’s three home runs also put her into a tie for seventh on the conference charts and she was one of the conference leaders on the base paths as well, swiping six bases to rank ninth on the conference top-10 and scoring a team-leading 32 runs.

The slugger’s prowess did not end at the plate and on the base paths, however, as she started all 36 games at first base and committed just five errors in 267 chances to finish the season with a .981 fielding percentage.