PORTLAND — The Eastern League of Professional Baseball has announced its end of season awards on Thursday, and two members of the 2014 Portland Sea Dogs were honored. The awards are voted on by Eastern League managers and media members.

Left-handed pitcher Henry Owens was named the 2014 Eastern League Pitcher of the Year.

Owens is the second straight Sea Dogs pitcher to earn the honor and the fourth in franchise history, joining Anthony Ranaudo (2013), Jon Lester (2005), and Michael Tejera (1999).

In 20 starts with the Sea Dogs this season, Owens produced a 14-4 record with a 2.60 ERA (35 ER/121.0 IP) and 126 strikeouts. He earned a promotion to Triple-A Pawtucket on August 1st, where he has posted a 2-1 record with a 3.66 ERA in five starts. At the time of his promotion, Owens was leading the league in wins (14), strikeouts (126), complete games (3), shutouts (2), and average against (.201). He also ranked second in the league in ERA (2.60) and third in WHIP (1.12). Despite not appearing in an Eastern League game since July 29, Owens still leads the league in wins and strikeouts.

Owens is the first player in Sea Dogs franchise history to win 14 games in a single season. He also established new franchise records by hurling 27.2 consecutive scoreless innings from May 19-June 14 and winning nine consecutive starts from May 24-July 19. The 22-year-old opened the 2014 season by firing a rain-shortened, complete game no-hitter against the Reading Fightin Phils and was named the Eastern League Pitcher of the Week for the opening week of the season.

In addition to being named the Eastern League Pitcher of the Year, Owen was selected as the left-handed starting pitcher on the recently announced Eastern League All-Star Team. He was also named to the Eastern Division roster for the 2014 Eastern League All-Star Game and threw a scoreless inning as the starting pitcher for the U.S. Team at the MLB Futures Game in Minnesota.

Entering the 2014 season, Baseball America rated Owens as the top pitching prospect and No. 2 prospect overall in the Red Sox organization, the No. 40 prospect in baseball and the No. 2 left-handed pitching prospects. Baseball America also rated Owens as having the “Best Changeup” in the Red Sox farm system.

Owens also made six starts for the Sea Dogs at the end of the 2013 season. In 26 career appearances with the Sea Dogs he is 17-5 with a 2.44 ERA.

Owens, a native of Huntington Beach, California, was selected by the Red Sox in the supplemental round (36th overall) of the June 2011 draft.

Portland left-handed starter Brian Johnson finished second in the Eastern League Pitcher of the Year voting and Altoona right-handed starter Adrian Sampson finished in third place. Johnson is 10-2 with a 1.83 (23 ER/113 IP) and 98 strikeouts in 19 starts with the Sea Dogs. His 1.83 ERA leads the league.

In addition to Owens’ award, Sea Dogs manager Billy McMillon was named the 2014 Eastern League Manager of the Year.

McMillon is the second manager in the Sea Dogs 21-year history to earn the honor, joining Carlos Tosca who earned the distinction in 1996.

In his first season as the Sea Dogs’ manager, McMillon has led the Sea Dogs to their first playoff appearance since 2008 with the Eastern League’s best record of 85-52 (.620). The Sea Dogs are currently in first place in the Eastern Division, with a two-game lead over the second-place Binghamton Mets. If the Sea Dogs hold on to win the division, it will be their first division title since 2005. The 85 wins by the Sea Dogs this season are one shy of the franchise record of 86 wins, which was established during the 1995 season; a team that McMillon played 141 games for as an outfielder.

McMillon has managed a 2014 Sea Dogs team that has consisted of 49 different players. Ten players that started the season in Portland have been promoted to Triple-A Pawtucket, including two players ”“ Mookie Betts and Carlos Rivero ”“ who have reached the Major Leagues with the Red Sox. Among the players promoted from Portland were three of the Red Sox’ top ten prospects according to Baseball America: Henry Owens, Blake Swihart, and Betts. Other notable players promoted include Deven Marrero, Travis Shaw and Derrik Gibson.

The 2014 season is McMillon’s seventh season in the Red Sox organization and fifth as a minor league manager. Last season, he managed the High-A Salem Red Sox to the 2013 Carolina League Championship. He has a career managerial record of 384-307 (.556).

McMillon spent parts of six seasons in the Major Leagues, where he hit a career .248 in 269 games.

The Florida Marlins drafted McMillon in the eighth round of the June 1993 draft. The outfielder spent the 1995 season with the Portland Sea Dogs.