The Gold Glove winner this year for the Wild Boars came down to a Coaches and Captains vote since Tabata and Hall are now Captains both votes were cancelled out. By a Coaches / Captains vote of  5 to 1 the Wild Boars recipient of the Gold Glove for the 2017 season is Markus Hall.

Hall and Tabata battled to the end both getting an unprecedented 4 Offensive and Defensive Players of the game in the same game. When push came to shove Meade would win Offensive Player in Games where Markus would take Defensive Player. if it was a Double Header each of them would top the other by taking both Offensive and Defensive in the other game.

Both amassed a total of 42 Points to the Gold Glove award both are deserving and it came to the Captains and the Coaches to decide. The Captains, Senior Captains Travis Knight and K.J. Jimison and new Captain Brandon Lucas all placed their votes and Assistant Manager Rob Johnson cast his and both Markus and Meade as Captains, their vote was split to give them each 1 at the end the result was a 5 to 1 vote for Markus Hall to receive the Boars Gold Glove award.

As Manager Joe Cantrell said " I am glad it was a unanimous decision as in the event of a tie, I vote to break the tie, and I am not sure I could of chose one over the other".

Markus Hall a Rookie becomes the 2nd Rookie to win the Award behind Doug Adkins in 2016. There was No winner in 2015. Markus played Short-Stop in every game he played for the Boars or Pitched and collected 1 save for his efforts.

I am pleased to present the 2017 Gold Glove Award from the Wild Boars Baseball Club to Markus Hall SS #4.