By JOEL COLEMAN
sports@starkvilledailynews.com
John Cohen’s Mississippi State baseball team won the Southeastern Conference’s grandest prize on Saturday when the Bulldogs captured the team’s first league championship since 1989. On Monday, MSU’s eighth-year head coach was rewarded with some personal hardware.
The SEC has named Cohen the conference’s Coach of the Year. The honor comes just two days after he became the first coach in league history to lead his team to an outright SEC championship one season after finishing last. Cohen becomes the fourth MSU coach to ever earn the Coach of the Year award and is the first since Ron Polk earned the honor in 1989.