Courtesy: Marc DeRose Sophomore Ryan Arrowood was the Coastal Plain League co-Defensive Player of the Year this summer.

BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University right-handed pitcher Ryan Arrowood was named the Coastal Plain League’s co-Defensive Player of the Year following a perfect summer on the mound for his hometown Forest City Owls this summer.

Arrowood earned the honor on the strength of a perfect 10-0 regular-season record and 1.88 ERA in 10 starts for the Owls this summer. The sophomore surrendered just 15 earned runs on 52 hits in 72 innings of work with 64 strikeouts and 17 walks while opposing batters hit just .204 against him. He was just as spectacular in the postseason, going 2-0 with 1.29 ERA and 10 strikeouts in two Petitt Cup playoff starts.

Behind Arrowood’s CPL-record-tying 10 regular-season wins, Forest City posted a 46-9 record and went on to sweep five postseason games en route to its first-ever Petitt Cup championship. The Owls’ 51 victories were tops among all wooden-bat collegiate summer teams nationally, which led to them being crowned as national champions by Perfect Game Crosschecker. Forest City became only the second team outside of the Cape Cod Baseball League to ever earn PG Crosschecker’s final No. 1 ranking.

As a freshman for the Mountaineers last spring, Arrowood was 1-1 in 11 appearances on the mound and hit .286 with five doubles, four home runs and 10 RBI in just 77 at-bats.

SMITH NAMED NY-PENN ALL-STAR: Former Mountaineer Rand Smith earned a spot in the New York-Penn League All-Star Game, which was played last Tuesday in State College, Pa.

Smith, a 20th-round selection by the Florida Marlins in June’s Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, represented the Jamestown Jammers on the National League squad in the short-season A-level league’s version of the mid-summer classic. He did not play in the NL’s 4-2 loss due to an ankle injury.

In his first professional season, Smith is hitting a lofty .305 and had a string of five-straight multi-hit games before sustaining the ankle injury on Aug. 2.

OTHER MOUNTAINEERS PERFORMING WELL IN NY-PENN LEAGUE: Smith isn’t the only former Mountaineer that has performed well in the New York-Penn League this summer. Altogether, five ASU baseball alums are currently playing in the 14-team league.

Relief pitcher Zach Quate has yet to allow an earned run as a professional, posting a 1-0 record and nine saves in 14 appearances for the Hudson Valley Renegades. Quate, who was selected in the 14th round of June’s MLB Draft by the Tampa Bay Rays, boasts a ridiculous 23-to-2 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 20 innings as a pro.

Josh Dowdy has made a successful transition from college starter to pro closer and sports a 1-1 record with four saves and a 2.70 ERA in eight appearances for the Aberdeen IronBirds. A 38th-round selection of the Baltimore Orioles in June’s MLB Draft, Dowdy started the summer with the Bluefield Orioles of the rookie-level Appalachian League and was promoted after going 2-0 with four saves and a 1.13 ERA in nine appearances. In Aberdeen, Dowdy is reunited with former ASU teammate Jason Rook, who has a home run and two doubles in 80 at-bats this season.

Finally, David Rubinstein is tied for 41st in the NYPL with a .259 batting average for the State College Spikes. In his second season with the Spikes after being selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 11th round of the 2008 MLB Draft, Rubinstein has seven doubles, two triples, two home runs and 25 RBI in 53 games this year.

Other former Mountaineers among the professional ranks include Isaac Harrow (HR, four 2B in 29 games for the Tampa Yankees of the rookie-level Gulf Coast League), Garrett Sherrill (was 1-0 in six relief appearances for the Class-A Wisconsin Timber Rattlers before sustaining a season-ending elbow injury in May) and Andrew Franco (.329 with three 2B, four HR and 16 RBI in 22 games for the Traverse City Beach Bums of the independent Frontier League).