Southeast roundup: Redhawks will host Cardinals Caravan

The Southeast Missouri State athletics department announced Saturday that it will host the St. Louis Cardinals Caravan, which features current and former St. Louis Cardinals players, broadcasters and Fredbird.

The event will be Jan. 17 at the Show Me Center along with a Southeast basketball doubleheader against Tennessee Tech.

Autographs will be signed for kids from 5 to 6 p.m. and a ticket for the basketball games is required. The women's basketball team plays at 3:30 p.m. and the men follow at 6 p.m.

The Cardinals players that will be at the event are expected to be announced in early January and will be introduced during the men's game.

Soccer

Southeast announced the signing of Central Michigan transfer Angie Mann to the Redhawks' soccer team.

Mann, a junior forward, played in 19 games as a freshman and played in four last year as a sophomore.

Mann will start workouts with the team Jan. 20 when the spring semester begins at the university.

Baseball

Two members of the Southeast Missouri State baseball team's Ohio Valley Conference championship team from last season are garnering recognition.

Third baseman Andy Lennington, who returns for his senior season, was named a third-team Louisville Slugger preseason all-American by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper on Friday.

Lennington, a three-year starter at Southeast, batted .312 during his junior campaign and led the Redhawks with 18 doubles and five triples.

It was also announced Friday that former Redhawk Derek Gibson will be awarded the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame's Special Achievement Award at its Enshrinement Ceremony on Jan. 25 in Springfield, Missouri.

According to a press release from the Southeast athletics department, "The award is given to a Missouri native who has been recognized in his/her sport on the national level."

Gibson, from Bonne Terre, Missouri, was selected for the award because he was a 2014 National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association first-team All-American.

Gibson, who signed with the St. Louis Cardinals organization as an undrafted free agent in June, also was named first-team all-conference, a Capital One Academic All-American, and a second-team All-American by Rawlings and the American Baseball Coaches Association following his senior season.

-- From staff reports