BRISTOL, Tenn. – Aaron Dunaway was a second-team All-AAC selection as voted on by the coaches and announced Wednesday at the Appalachian Athletic Conference awards ceremony. Chris Stunson and Michael Hester were named to the conference’s All-Defensive and All-Freshmen teams, respectively.

Dunaway, a sophomore from Lexington, Ky., started in 28 of Union’s 30 games this season and led the team with a 15.6 points per game average. He ranked seventh in the conference in scoring. Dunaway made 43.4 percent of his shots from the field, the ninth-best in the AAC. He held a 39.6 percentage from behind the 3-point line which was the conference’s seventh-best percentage and made 57 three-pointers for the tenth-most in the conference. His 88.4 free-throw percentage was the best in the conference.

With his 467 points this season, Dunaway needs 98 points to join the 1,000-point club. He was an All-AAC Freshman team selection last season. He is the first All-AAC selection for Union since the 2005-06 season in which Jerrod Gibbons received the honor.

Hester (Independence, Ky.) might have started four games, but he saw action in all of the Bulldogs’ 30 games. He averaged 6.9 points per game and dished out a team-high 82 assists this season. His average of 2.7 per game put him 12th in the conference rankings. With 49 steals, he had the seventh most in the AAC.

Stunson (Richmond, Ky.) earned the All-AAC Defensive team nod for the third time to end his career. He collected 30 steals with 83 rebounds. On the other side of the court, Stunson, a senior, reached the 1,000-point plateau earlier in the season. He enters the postseason with 1,136 points to rank 23rd on the Union all-time scoring list.

Stunson, Nathaniel Peyton (West Liberty, Ky.) and Hubertus von Heyden (Neulengbach, Austria) all earned spots on the AAC All-Academic team.

Union, the No. 7 seed, opens the AAC Tournament with a contest with Covenant (Ga.) College, the No. 10 seed, at 6 p.m. at Viking Hall in Bristol, Tenn.