MOULTRIE — Jebb Cato and John Michael Harrison, a pair of Colquitt County underclassmen who are expected to lead the Packers again next season, have been named to the 2008 All-Region 1-AAAAA baseball team.

Region champion Valdosta took both of the league’s top individual honors.

University of Georgia-bound Earl Daniels was named the Player of the Year and Bart Shuman was selected as the Coach of the Year.

Daniels, a right-handed pitcher, was dominant on the mound this spring, going 12-1 and striking out 131 batters. He also was named to the All-Region first team as a junior in 2007.

Shuman, who has been the Valdosta head coach for 10 seasons, led the Wildcats to their first region championship since 1997.

Valdosta advanced to the state’s Final Four before being eliminated by Walton in three games and finished with a 28-7 record.

Cato, the Packers junior third baseman, was one of six infielders named to the All-Region 1-AAAAA first team.

His .420 batting average ranked him sixth in the region and he was 14th in the region with 18 runs batted in.

Cato led the Packers with 29 hits, including eight doubles and a pair of home runs. He also stole nine bases in 10 attempts.

Harrison, the Packers outfielder/pitcher, received honorable mention on the All-Region team.

He led the Packers with 25 runs batted in, which tied him for fourth in the region with Valdosta’s Jamie Turner. Also a junior, Harrison led the Packers in triples, with three; home runs, with four; and extra base hits with 12.

Also named to the All-Region first team was Valdosta junior pitcher Kyle Rowe, who posted a 13-1 record.

The third All-Region first-team pitcher was Jesse Scott of Warner Robins.

The first team outfielders include Coffee’s Michael Swinson and Jake Gower, Tift County’s Tyce Moore, Lowndes Sam Hoff and Warner Robins’ Aaron Dobbs.

Swinson had an excellent season for the Trojans, batting .434 and driving 28 runs.

Joining Cato in the first-team infield are Corey Davis and Stuart Drew of Coffee, Chance Veazey of Tift County and Cameron Cain and Taylor Prain of Valdosta.

Davis led the region with 12 home runs, twice as many Swinson, who was second in the region with six. Just a junior, Davis also led the region with 38 runs batted in.

Drew led the region in batting with a .459 average and in stolen bases with 19. Veazey batted .438 and Cain .434.

The first-team catchers were Galen Smith of Valdosta and Zack Watson of Warner Robins. Watson batted .400 for the Demons.

Sophomore Chad Prain, who was second in the region with a .451 average, was named the first team’s designated hitter.

Also receiving honorable mention were Ben Watson, Jacob Stinson and Matthew Brunty of Tift County; Justin Burke and Chess Malone of Warner Robins; Ryan Mayo and Brandon Farabow of Coffee; Kyle Davis, Damien Phillips, Phillip Knauer and Chris Thompson of Houston County; Matt McCall and Parker Pridgen of Lowndes; and Jamie Turner of Valdosta.