A Preview of the 154th Season of D1 Baseball…

IRVING, Texas – Coming off a year filled with surprises such as Stony Brook’s and Kent State’s first trips to the NCAA World Series and several other national developments, the 13th annual National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association preseason All-America team highlights the always exciting world of the nation’s best baseball student-athletes for 2013.

Next month’s practices signify the 154th season of college baseball with the 2013 All-America squad signify the direction that Division I baseball continues to go – clutch hitting, solid defense and pinpoint control pitching.

With defending NCAA World Series champ Arizona hit heavily by graduation and signings, the upcoming crop of stars hails from the talented Pac-12 diamond tradition as well as 19 conferences and 43 schools nationwide.

Returning first team standouts from the post-2012 NCBWA All-America team embody this DI diversity as New Mexico 3B and 2012 co-Mountain West Conference Player of the Year (with teammate and first team pre-2013 catcher Mitchell Garver) and LSU OF Raph Rhymes, the ’12 SEC Player of the Year, lead the way.

In consultation with individual schools’ media relations offices, the NCBWA All-America committee for pre-2013 had many difficult decisions at defensive positions filled with potential superstars and one of the deepest pools of pitching nominees in the two decades of NCBWA All-America crews chosen prior to playing seasons.

FIRST TEAM

Pos. Name, School, Class Avg. G AB R H 2B-3B-HR RBI BB SO SB/SBA

C Mitchell Garver, New Mexico, Sr. .377 61 268 68 101 27-3-10 57 25 28 6-9

1B Johnny Coy, Wichita State, Sr. .344 59 227 43 78 17-3-9 63 30 53 0-0

2B Michael Felton, Campbell, Sr. .424 59 243 52 103 12-3-1 45 20 23 11-14

3B DJ Peterson, New Mexico, Jr. .419 61 248 57 104 21-3-17 78 33 29 1-2

SS Hunter Dozier, Stephen F. Austin, Jr. .357 59 227 43 81 22-1-10 37 29 42 8-14

OF Raph Rhymes, LSU, Sr. .431 61 232 44 100 11-0-4 53 22 13 2-6

OF Michael Conforto, Oregon State, So. .349 58 218 45 76 14-1-13 76 24 37 1-4

OF Boomer Collins, Dallas Baptist, Sr. .374 60 235 62 88 23-1-13 58 37 46 15-18

DH Nick Backlund, Mercer, Jr. .381 59 223 51 85 16-0-16 58 33 37 3-4

UT Marco Gonzales, Gonzaga, Jr. .325 43 151 23 49 10-0-2 29 11 21 0-0

8-2, 1.55 ERA, 12 App, 12 GS, 3CG, 1/2 SHO, 0 SV, 92.2IP, 63H, 18R, 16ER, 23BB, 92K

Pitchers

Pos. Name School W-L ERA APP GS CG SHO SV IP H R ER BB SO.

SP Carlos Rodon, NC State, So. 9-0 1.57 17 16 2 2 0 114.2 71 29 20 41 135

SP Nick Petree, Missouri State, Jr. 10-4 1.01 16 16 3 6 0 115.1 85 22 13 36 114

SP Mark Appel, Stanford, Sr. 10-2 2.56 16 16 5 1 0 123 97 39 35 30 130

SP Chris Rowley, Army, Sr. 11-1 2.40 15 15 6 0 0 97.1 64 30 26 22 80

SP Adam Plutko, UCLA, Jr. 12-3 2.48 18 18 2 0 0 119.2 91 35 33 47 99

RP Jimmie Sherfy, Oregon, Jr. 5-3 2.20 36 0 0 0 19 61.1 36 18 15 34 93

RP Michael Wagner, San Diego, Jr. 5-2 2.58 31 2 0 1 19 59.1 57 20 17 20 53

RP Jonathan Holder, Mississippi State, So. 2-1 0.32 24 0 0 1 9 28.1 17 2 1 5 30

SECOND TEAM

Pos. Name, School, Class Avg. G AB R H 2B-3B-HR RBI BB SO SB/SBA

C Mark Zagunis, Virginia Tech So. .344 49 189 35 65 13-2-5 34 21 25 17-22

1B Jared Hammer, Hofstra, Sr. .376 55 213 47 80 18-0-4 66 39 20 12-14

2B Christian Stringer, Rice, Sr. .343 59 236 58 81 12-3-3 36 38 28 6-11

3B Trea Turner, NC State, So. .336 63 259 72 87 13-2-5 43 41 38 5-6

SS Adam Frazier, Mississippi State, Jr. .371 64 245 45 91 16-1-0 26 50 4 9-15

OF Bill Cullen, VCU, Jr. .347 59 259 62 90 25-9-5 40 24 47 11-17

OF Matt Honchel, Miami (Ohio) So. .395 59 233 43 92 7-2-0 26 15 13 10-20

OF Aaron Judge, Fresno State, Jr. .308 58 201 47 62 14-2-4 27 48 42 13-15

DH Michael Pritchard, Nebraska, Jr. .387 57 212 51 82 10-0-0 22 21 10 6-9

UT Michael Lorenzen, Cal State Fullerton, Jr. .297 57 232 38 69 20-3-3 43 14 42 14-19

2-0, 1.23 ERA, 20 App, 0GS, 0CG, 0/2SHO, 16SV, 22.0IP, 16H, 3R, 3ER, 5BB, 17K

Pitchers

Pos. Name School W-L ERA APP GS CG SHO SV IP H R ER BB SO.

SP Trevor Williams, Arizona State, Jr. 12-2 2.05 16 15 2 1 0 109.2 90 33 25 13 59

SP Buck Farmer, Georgia Tech, Sr. 8-4 3.54 16 16 1 0 0 106.2 100 48 41 37 115

SP Kent Emanuel, North Carolina, Jr. 8-4 1.96 17 16 0 0 0 110 91 33 24 23 100

SP Tyler Skulina, Kent State, Jr. 11-3 3.77 18 18 0 0 0 107.1 97 52 45 45 106

SP Austin Kubitza, Rice, Jr. 6-5 2.69 16 15 0 0 0 80.1 60 32 24 28 73

RP Tyler Webb, South Carolina, Sr. 6-1 1.56 39 0 0 0 3 57.2 44 12 10 18 58

RP David Berg, UCLA, So. 5-3 1.46 50 0 0 0 1 74 42 14 12 17 63

RP Tyler Burgess, Missouri State, So. 5-2 2.08 26 0 0 0 11 39 21 12 9 17 31

THIRD TEAM (ties in voting)

Pos. Name, School, Class Avg. G AB R H 2B-3B-HR RBI BB SO SB/SBA

C Alex Swim, Elon, Sr. .357 59 241 39 86 11-1-3 45 19 13 7-10

1B Mason Katz, LSU, Sr. .320 64 241 65 77 15-1-13 52 33 52 8-12

2B Jordan Hankins, Austin Peay, Jr. .336 64 250 52 84 16-3-10 66 38 16 3-5

3B Kris Bryant, San Diego, Jr. .366 57 213 59 78 17-3-14 57 39 38 9-12

SS Will Callaway, Appalachian State, Sr. .320 59 241 54 77 12-3-4 53 21 32 23-27

DH Zach Stephens, Tennessee Tech, Jr. .368 53 204 44 75 13-0-18 52 29 52 0-0

OF Austin Cousino, Kentucky, So. .319 62 260 61 83 20-2-9 41 26 39 16-16

OF Jeff Roy, Rhode Island, Jr. .356 59 236 59 84 15-5-2 38 33 35 22-28

OF Brandon Thomas, Georgia Tech, .360 56 211 57 76 15-6-5 44 37 43 12-17

OF Tim Colwell, North Dakota State, Jr. .381 60 244 62 93 11-9-1 35 25 15 12-16

DH Kevin Krause, Stony Brook, So. .330 61 209 38 69 12-0-3 40 26 31 6-8

UT A.J. Reed, Kentucky, So. .300 55 200 29 60 9-0-4 43 24 51 0-1

5-3, 2.52 ERA, 53.2 IP, 16 App, 5 GS, 54 H, 17 R, 15 ER, 9 BB, 51 K

Pitchers

Pos. Name School W-L ERA APP GS CG SHO SV IP H R ER BB SO

SP Drew Bowen, Oral Roberts, Sr.. 7-2 1.95 13 4 1 1 0 87.2 78 27 19 21 68

SP Mike Compton, Florida State, So. 12-2 2.87 18 18 0 0 0 91 89 25 35 28 64

SP Corey Littrell, Kentucky, Jr. 9-2 2.74 16 16 0 0 0 98.2 104 32 30 25 87

SP Preston Morrison, TCU, So. 9-2 2.09 11 11 1 1 0 112.2 88 29 26 12 72

SP Matt Pegler, College of Charleston, Sr. 10-2 2.83 15 15 1 0 0 89 73 37 28 20 66

SP Andrew Vasquez, UC Santa Barbara, So. 6-3 1.93 13 12 0 0 0 88.2 58 31 19 63 104

RP A.J. Salcines, Miami (Fla.), Jr. 3-0 1.40 39 0 0 0 7 38.2 26 10 6 11 44

RP Chad Sobotka, USC Upstate, So. 3-0 1,72 25 0 0 0 12 31.1 21 7 6 16 34

RP Colby Suggs, Arkansas, Jr. 7-1 1.38 30 0 0 0 0 39 26 6 6 19

Florida Keeps Topping Preseason Polls…

DALLAS – Florida is pre-competition No. 1 nationally for the first time
in school history in the 2012 National Collegiate Baseball Writers 15th
annual Division I preseason poll.

Coach Kevin O’Sullivan’s crew was runnerup to fellow Southeastern
Conference powerhouse South Carolina in the 2011 NCAA World Series and
has a very solid nucleus returning. All-America catcher and 2011 SEC
Player of the Year Mike Zunino (.371 average-19 homers-67 RBI) is one of
the top returnees along with dual threat Brian Johnson (8-3 pitching
record, .307-5-29) and All-America DH Preston Tucker for the Gators.

Two-time defending NCAA champ South Carolina is No. 2 in the opening
survey while 2011 NCAA Division I World Series participants North
Carolina (No. 3 this year), Texas A&M (No. 5), Texas (No. 7), Vanderbilt
(No. 11), Virginia (No. 23), and California (No, 26) return after being
ranked among the Top Eight in the final NCBWA poll last June. Last
year’s preseason No. 1 TCU is No. 13 in the 2012 lidlifter.

The NCBWA continues its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 15th
year with its 2012 preseason predictions and weekly surveys. Weekly
polls will resume from Feb. 21-June 28 with the finale following the
66th annual 2012 NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb., at two-year-old TD
Ameritrade Park.
The poll voters come from 40 college baseball writers and related media
persons from throughout the nation. After a preseason Top 35 listing,
the remainder of the polls will feature a national Top 30 beginning with
the Feb. 21 NCBWA survey.

LSU held down the No. 1 slot in the 1998, 2001 and 2009 polls. Other
NCBWA preseason No. 1 placers have been Southern California (1999),
Miami (Fla.) (2000), Stanford (2002), Texas (2003, 06, 10), Rice (2004,
07), Cal State Fullerton (2005), Arizona State (2008), North Carolina
(2009), and TCU (2011). South Carolina never had won a DI baseball crown
before capturing the trophy in both 2010 and ’11.

Last season, five different teams were rated No, 1 – TCU, UCLA, Florida,
Vanderbilt, Virginia, and the champion Gamecocks.

This preseason poll has representation by 10 different conferences and
independent Dallas Baptist among the 291 baseball-playing schools in the
2012 NCAA Division I ranks. The polls of 2011 had teams from 16
different DI conferences rated at least one week. For more information
or to join the NCBWA, please go to www.ncbwa.com.

Rank-School-2011 Record-Final ’11 Ranking
1 Florida Southeastern 53-19 2
2 South Carolina SEC 55-14 1
3 North Carolina Atlantic Coast 51-16 5
4 Stanford Pacific-12 35-22 13
5 Texas A&M Big 12 47-22 8
6 Arkansas SEC 40-22 20
7 Texas Big 12 49-19 7
8 Rice Conference USA 42-21 18
9 Georgia Tech ACC 42-21 23
10 Florida State ACC 46-19 10
11 Vanderbilt SEC 54-12 4
12 LSU SEC 36-20 NR
13 TCU Mountain West 43-19 16
14 Oklahoma Big 12 41-19 24
15 Arizona State Pac-12 43-18 9
16 Miami (Fla.) ACC 38-23 26
17 Clemson ACC 43-20 15
18 Arizona Pac-12 39-21 25
19 Cal State Fullerton Big West 41-17 17
20 UCLA Pac-12 35-24 22
21 Georgia SEC 33-32 NR
22 Oregon State Pac-12 41-19 12
23 Virginia ACC 56-12 3
24 UC Irvine Big West 43-18 11
25 Louisville Big East 32-29 NR
26 California Pac-12 38-23 6
27 St. John’s Big East 36-22 NR
28 UCF Conference USA 39-23 NR
29 Southern Miss Conference USA 39-19 30
30 Ole Miss SEC 30-25 NR
31 Stetson Atlantic Sun 43-20 NR
32 Baylor Big 12 31-28 NR
33 Dallas Baptist Independent 42-20 21
34 Mississippi State SEC 38-25 19
35 Coastal Carolina Big South 42-20 NR

Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Alabama (35-28), Auburn
(29-29), Belmont (38-26), Bethune-Cookman (36-25), Cal State Bakersfield
(33-22), Charlotte (43-16), College of Charleston (39-22), Connecticut
(45-20-1), Creighton (45-16), East Carolina (41-21), Florida
International (40-20-1), Fresno State (40-16), Georgia Southern (36-26),
Georgia State (37-21), Gonzaga (32-19-1), Illinois (30-27), Jacksonville
(37-24), James Madison (42-19), Kansas State (36-25), Kent State
(45-17), Kentucky (25-30), Long Beach State (29-27), Maine (33-24),
Michigan State (36-21), Missouri State (33-23), NC State (35-27),
Nebraska (30-25), Oklahoma State (35-25), Old Dominion (30-26), Oral
Roberts (39-22), Oregon (33-26-1), Sam Houston State (35-24), San Diego
State (22-36), Seton Hall (34-25), Southern California (25-31), Stony
Brook (42-12), Tennessee (25-29), Texas State (41-23), Texas Tech
(33-25), Troy (43-19), Tulane (31-26), UNC Wilmington (31-28), West
Virginia (28-27), Wichita State (39-26).

By conference: SEC 8, Pacific-12 6, ACC 6, Big 12 4, C-USA 3, Big East
2, Big West 2, Atlantic Sun 1, Big South 1, Independents 1, MWC 1.

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56 Standouts Honored By Baseball Writers…

MORGANTOWN, W. Va. – After two rounds of voting by the organization, 56 baseball student-athletes comprise the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association’s (of which Collegebaseball360.com is a member) 16^th Annual All-America first, second and third teams, as announced on Wednesday.

Nineteen different conferences are represented, one independent and 10 conference championships teams. The three All-America squads are also made up of 12 conference players of the year, seven conference pitchers of the year winners and 10 first-round draft picks in the recent Major League Baseball Amateur Draft.

Members of this year’s team lead the nation in 16 different categories, including batting average (Chad Zurcher, Memphis, .443), runs (Jake Lowery, James Madison, 80), hits (Tyler Naquin, Texas A&M, 103), doubles (Jason Krizan, Dallas Baptist, 39), home runs (Victor Roache, Georgia Southern, 30), RBI (Lowery, 91), slugging percentage (C.J. Cron, Utah, .803), total bases (Lowery, 200), on-base percentage (Zurcher, .547), stolen bases (Bryson Myles, Stephen F. Austin, 53), walks (Anthony Rendon, Rice, 80), victories (Ross Stripling, Texas A&M, 14), saves (Corey Knebel, Texas, 19), strikeouts (Trevor Bauer, UCLA, 203), fewest hits allowed per nine innings (Knebel, 4.44) and complete games (Bauer, 10).

The recipient for the 25th Annual Dick Howser Trophy, as voted upon by NCBWA members and awarded since 1987, will be announced on Tuesday, June 21, in Omaha at 10 a.m. (CDT) at the TD Ameritrade Stadium Press Interview Room (Street Level). The Dick Howser Trophy recipient also will be present at the College Baseball Awards Show, held on July 3 at the United Spirit Center in Lubbock, Texas on airing on MLB.com.

Previous NCBWA All-America teams from 1996-2010 have featured the likes of P Stephen Strasburg of San Diego State, OF J.D. Drew of Florida State, P-DH Jason Jennings of Baylor, 1B Mark Teixeira of Georgia Tech, RHP Mark Prior of Southern California, SS Khalil Greene of Clemson, SS-2B Rickie Weeks of Southern, 3B Alex Gordon of Nebraska, P David Price of Vanderbilt and C Buster Posey (all current Major Leaguers), among others.

Founded in 1962, the NCBWA is dedicated to the advancement of college baseball. Membership is open to writers, broadcasters and publicists of the sport. For more information about the NCBWA, visit the association’s official Web site, www.ncbwa.com.

NCBWA Division I All-America Team

FIRST TEAM (Statistics Through June 15)

Pos. Name, School, Class Avg. G AB R H 2B-3B-HR RBIs BB SO SB/SBA

C *Chris O’Brien, Wichita State, Sr. .410 65 244 56 100 25-1-10 70 40 18 1/1

1B *C.J. Cron, Utah Jr. .434 49 198 51 86 26-1-15 59 31 21 14/14

2B Ross Heffley, Western Carolina, Sr. .419 53 229 52 96 18-2-11 65 30 22 3/5

3B Matt Leeds, College of Charleston, Jr. .345 60 232 66 80 18-2-18 80 39 61 8/9

SS David Herbek, James Madison, Sr. .362 61 229 56 83 20-3-15 76 24 30 13/17

OF Jason Krizan, Dallas Baptist, Sr. .413 62 247 63 102 39-1-10 81 42 23 13/17

OF *Victor Roache, Georgia Southern, So. .326 62 230 58 75 10-2-30 84 37 42 3/7

OF *George Springer, Connecticut, Jr. .343 66 245 61 84 23-3-12 77 36 40 31/38

DH Brad Zebedis, Presbyterian , So. .425 56 212 47 90 23-0-13 57 16 22 1/2

UT ^Danny Hultzen, Virginia, Jr. .320 40 125 18 40 10-2-1 35 16 11 6/7

12-3, 1.49 ERA, 16 App, 16 GS, 0 SV, 0 CG, 108.2 IP, 72H, 26R, 18ER, 20BB, 151K

Pos. Name School W-L ERA APP GS CG SV IP H R ER BB SO

SP ^Trevor Bauer, UCLA, Jr. 13-2 1.25 16 16 10 0 132.6 73 22 19 36 203

SP ^Taylor Jungmann, Texas, Jr. 13-2 1.38 18 17 5 0 136.2 78 27 21 32 123

SP Sean Gilmartin, Florida State, Jr. 12-2 2.09 18 17 1 0 120.1 92 41 28 21 130

SP ^Matt Barnes, Connecticut, Jr. 11-5 1.93 17 17 3 0 121.0 79 33 26 33 117

SP ^Greg Gonzales, Fresno State, Sr. 11-1 1.79 16 16 2 0 105.1 76 33 21 28 124

RP Branden Kline, Virginia So. 4-1 2.15 30 0 0 17 37.2 27 12 9 18 49

RP James Allen, Kansas State, Jr. 3-1 1.35 29 0 0 17 40.0 25 6 6 11 45

RP Corey Knebel, Texas, Fr. 3-2 1.15 37 0 0 19 54.2 27 8 7 12 60

SECOND TEAM

Pos. Name, School, Class Avg. G AB R H 2B-3B-HR RBIs BB SO SB/SBA

C *Jake Lowery, James Madison, Jr. .359 61 251 80 90 22-8-24 91 38 47 9/12

1B *Adam Brett Walker, Jacksonville, So. .411 61 241 65 99 23-2-13 75 34 63 14/14

2B Tommy La Stella, Coastal Carolina, Jr. .398 61 231 59 92 15-4-14 70 32 36 13/15

3B Jacob Tanis, Mercer, Jr. .350 59 237 61 83 17-0-15 75 35 30 6/8

SS *Brad Miller, Clemson, Jr. .395 56 195 53 77 11-3-5 50 40 34 21/26

OF Mikie Mahtook, LSU, Jr. .383 56 196 61 75 12-5-14 56 41 32 29/38

OF Trever Adams, Creighton, Sr. .387 61 230 46 89 14-4-14 57 28 41 15/18

OF Daniel Aldrich, College of Charleston, Fr. .347 59 222 43 77 17-2-22 73 18 59 1/1

DH Anthony Rendon, Rice, Jr. .327 63 214 58 70 20-2-6 37 80 33 13/18

UT Tyler Pill, Cal State Fullerton, Jr. .323 49 155 25 50 11-2-1 30 27 23 3/7

7-1 , 2.28 ERA, 17 App, 15 GS, 1CG, 0 SV, 98.2IP, 77H, 46R, 25ER, 22BB, 110K

Pos. Name School W-L ERA APP GS CG SV IP H R ER BB SO

SP ^Grayson Garvin, Vanderbilt, Jr. 13-1 2.36 17 17 0 0 106.2 93 35 28 24 92

SP Will Roberts, Virginia, Sr. 11-1 1.58 17 16 3 0 102.1 72 21 18 13 91

SP Michael Roth, South Carolina, Jr. 13-3 1.02 18 17 1 0 123.0 95 29 14 32 95

SP Nick Tropeano, Stony Brook, Jr. 12-1 1.84 14 14 4 0 93.0 63 23 19 24 119

SP ^Tyler Ray, Troy, Jr. 12-0 2.34 16 16 3 0 116.2 103 35 31 16 69

RP Matt Price, South Carolina, Fr. 5-3 2.16 31 0 0 18 50 36 12 12 15 67

RP Kevin Vance, Connecticut, Jr. 1-0 2.12 27 0 0 13 29.2 14 7 7 7 31

RP Kevin Quackenbush, USF, So. 1-2 0.81 28 0 0 12 33.1 14 5 3 7 45

THIRD TEAM (Ties in voting)

Pos. Name, School, Class Avg. G AB R H 2B-3B-HR RBIs BB SO SB/SBA

C *Mike Zunino, Florida, So. .376 67 245 72 92 22-0-18 66 29 47 7/9

1B Paul Hoilman, East Tennessee St, Sr. .313 57 214 57 67 22-0-22 50 44 72 2/2

2B *Dan Paolini, Siena, Sr. .346 58 211 48 73 10-0-19 67 32 36 13/15

3B Jason Esposito, Vanderbilt, Jr. .357 62 252 85 90 22-1-9 59 17 41 15/25

SS *Chad Zurcher, Memphis, Jr. .443 55 203 47 90 19-2-0 34 33 14 12/17

OF Chris Benson, Utah Valley, Sr. .400 56 250 62 100 23-5-5 53 12 20 10/14

OF James Ramsey, Florida State, Jr. .364 65 250 58 91 18-3-10 67 31 52 11/14

OF *Tyler Naquin, Texas A&M, So. .390 65 259 65 101 23-7-2 44 29 33 6/13

OF Bryson Myles, Stephen F. Austin, Jr. .411 60 241 69 99 11-3-8 36 23 36 53/68

DH D.J. Hicks, UCF, So. .351 61 228 42 80 11-0-14 66 35 49 1/2

UT Bo Reeder, East Tennessee St., Jr. .316 57 244 59 77 16-0-15 59 14 61 3/6

0-1, 1.95ERA, 24 App, 0GS, 0CG, 18SV, 27.2IP, 16H, 7R, 6ER, 12BB, 32K

UT *Nick Ramirez, Cal State. Fullerton, Jr. .291 58 213 40 62 17-1-9 49 32 42 4/9

1-1, 2.13ERA, 22 App, 0GS, 0CG, 16SV, 25.1IP, 15H, 8R, 6ER, 10BB, 33K

Pos. Name School W-L ERA APP GS CG SV IP H R ER BB SO

SP Sonny Gray, Vanderbilt Jr. 12-3 1.97 17 17 3 0 114.1 77 29 25 41 119

SP Sam Gaviglio, Oregon State, Jr. 12-3 2.54 17 17 4 0 120.2 91 48 34 33 116

SP Ross Stripling, Texas A&M., Jr. 13-2 2.30 21 14 4 3 109.2 77 36 28 16 99

SP Kyle Winkler, TCU, Sr. 8-2 1.39 14 13 2 0 90.2 65 18 14 14 99

SP Mark Pope, Georgia Tech, Jr. 11-4 1.74 16 16 5 0 113.2 91 28 22 24 88

RP Navery Moore, Vanderbilt, Jr. 4-2 1.21 28 0 0 11 29.2 18 8 4 12 25

RP Tony Cingrani, Rice, Sr. 4-2 1.74 34 2 0 12 57.0 47 16 11 10 66

RP John Neely, Texas Tech., Jr. 9-1 2.97 30 0 0 7 60.2 59 20 20 21 39

*-Conference player of the year

^-Conference pitcher of the year

Courtesy www.ncbwa.com

34 Freshman Honored By Writers Association…

LYNCHBURG, VA. (NCBWA) – A total of 34 standout freshmen college baseball players from every part of the country are featured on the 2011 National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Freshman All-American Team, the organization announced today.

The 2011 NCBWA Freshman All-American Team features players from 17 conferences and seven conference championship teams. The two All-American squads are also made up of 14 conference “Rookie of the Year” winners.

Four teams placed two players (overall) on the two teams, while 26 schools placed at least one player on the teams. Jacksonville placed two players on the first team, while Arkansas, Texas and Vanderbilt also each had two players selected to the teams.

The ACC, Atlantic Sun, MEAC and SEC placed two players apiece on the first team. The SEC put six members on the first and second teams, the Atlantic Sun had four and the ACC and Big South had three selections apiece on the two squads.

The 2011 NCBWA National Freshman Player of the Year and National Freshman Pitcher of the Year will be announced on Tuesday, June 14.

Founded in 1962, the NCBWA is dedicated to the advancement of college baseball. Membership is open to writers, broadcasters and publicists of the sport. For more information about the NCBWA, visit the association’s official Web site, www.ncbwa.com.

2011 NCBWA Freshman All-America Team
(Stats through 6/12/11)

First Team

Pos. Player, School Avg. G AB R H 2B-3B-HR RBIs BB SO SB/SBA

C Matt Wollenzin, Austin Peay .373 36 83 18 31 4-0-2 19 15 21 0/0

1B Dominic Ficociello, Arkansas .335 61 224 29 75 15-1-4 50 6 45 5/6

2B Taylor Ratliff, Jacksonville .332 55 205 58 68 9-1-1 24 29 34 25/29

3B Colin Moran, North Carolina .335 64 236 46 79 20-2-9 69 46 31 2/4

SS Luke Tendler, North Carolina A&T .380 55 213 33 81 20-5-6 53 11 15 7/8

OF Daniel Aldrich, College of Charleston .347 59 222 43 77 17-2-22 73 18 59 1/1

OF Jaycob Brugman, BYU .317 53 205 37 65 19-5-9 49 16 46 13/15

OF Kyle Wren, Georgia Tech .352 59 250 55 88 11-7-1 32 28 27 14/20

DH Brad Zebedis, Presbyterian College .425 56 212 47 90 23-0-13 57 16 22 1/2

UT Marco Gonzales, Gonzaga .291 36 110 20 32 10-0-0 14 17 19 1/1

11-2, 2.57 ERA, 105.0 IP, 15 App, 15 GS, 83 H, 36 R, 30 ER, 21 BB, 90 K

Second Team

Pos. Name School W-L ERA APP GS CG SV IP H R ER BB SO

SP Tyler Barnette, Charlotte 9-2 2.29 16 16 1 0 109.1 83 27 22 26 92

SP Scott Gardner, Bethune-Cookman 9-2 2.07 13 13 2 0 78.1 61 27 18 18 48

SP Karsten Whitson, Florida 8-0 2.45 17 17 0 0 88.0 76 25 24 25 83

RP Chris Anderson, Jacksonville 4-2 3.78 35 1 0 11 50.0 40 23 21 33 39

RP Cale Elam, Wichita State 4-1 1.23 28 0 0 5 44.0 23 9 6 18 32

RP Corey Knebel, Texas 3-2 1.15 37 0 0 19 54.2 27 8 7 12 60

Third Team

Pos. Player, School Avg. G AB R H 2B-3B-HR RBIs BB SO SB/SBA

C Austin Barrett, Mercer .286 52 182 35 52 7-1-8 25 25 47 0/2

1B D.J. Peterson, New Mexico .317 61 246 39 78 32-3-6 48 15 10 0/0

2B JaCoby Jones, LSU .338 56 195 36 66 11-1-4 32 12 37 12/20

3B Erich Weiss, Texas .358 66 218 46 78 12-7-4 44 53 35 11/13

SS Logan Kirkland, South Alabama .339 57 224 43 76 10-2-1 27 25 27 3/7

OF Phillip Ervin, Samford .371 57 213 44 79 15-2-4 41 25 28 7/8

OF Alex Bacon, North Florida .352 52 199 46 70 18-1-9 42 20 45 3/8

OF Krey Bratsen, Texas A&M .335 66 257 43 86 5-3-0 36 23 51 31/40

DH Jeff Zimmerman, North Illinois .326 56 215 34 70 13-0-11 47 23 63 0/0

UT Josh Dezse, Ohio State .332 53 193 30 64 11-2-4 42 27 47 0/1

4-2, 5.53 ERA, 27.2 IP, 26 App, 0 GS, 30 H, 23 R, 17 ER, 22 BB, 32 K

Pos. Name School W-L ERA APP GS CG SV IP H R ER BB SO

SP T.J. Pecoraro, Vanderbilt 7-0 1.59 17 6 0 0 39.2 26 8 7 13 41

SP Nick Petree, Missouri State 9-2 2.81 16 11 2 2 96.0 86 36 30 27 81

SP Adam Plutko, UCLA 7-4 2.01 16 15 1 0 107.2 73 28 24 24 92

SP Alex Gonzalez, Oral Roberts 8-7 3.41 19 18 5 0 105.2 96 54 40 43 100

RP Kyle Porter, California 5-0 1.59 24 3 0 2 51.0 42 10 9 14 53

RP Kevin Poole, Clemson 5-2 1.93 17 3 0 0 32.2 37 9 7 10 17

RP Kevin Ziomek, Vanderbilt 3-0 1.61 25 5 0 1 44.2 33 9 8 15 46

RP Barrett Astin, Arkansas 5-2 2.72 27 3 0 3 59.2 57 21 18 20 57

DALLAS – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues
its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 14th year with its 2011
weekly surveys. Polls will be circulated from Feb. 21-June 28 following
the 65th annual NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb., at the new TD
Ameritade Stadium.

The poll voters come from 40 college baseball writers and related media
persons from throughout the nation. This week’s poll has representation
by 11 different conferences among the 300 baseball-playing schools in
the 2010 NCAA Division I ranks, and there have been 16 circuits in the
early surveys this season. Last year there also were 16 different
leagues (from 30 in NCAA Division I) among the Top 30 polls. For more
information, please go to www.NCBWA.com.

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Rank School Conference Overall Record Previous Rank
1 Virginia Atlantic Coast 45-6 2
2 South Carolina Southeastern 41-11 3
3 Vanderbilt SEC 42-8 1
4 Texas Big 12 38-12 4
5 Florida SEC 39-13 6
6 Florida State ACC 39-13 7
7 Oklahoma Big 12 39-13 8
8 Arizona State Pacific-10 36-13 5
9 TCU Mountain West 36-15 9
10 Oregon State Pac-10 37-12 10
11 Cal State Fullerton Big West 36-14 12
12 Clemson ACC 36-16 13
13 Texas A&M Big 12 36-16 14
14 North Carolina ACC 40-12 11
15 Georgia Tech ACC 37-15 15
16 UC Irvine Big West 34-13 18
17 Rice Conference USA 35-17 19
18 Arkansas SEC 33-17 16
19 Fresno State Western Athletic 36-11 21
20 Southern Miss C-USA 37-13 17
21 UCLA Pac-10 29-19 20
22 Stanford Pac-10 28-18 22
23 Miami (Fla.) ACC 32-18 24
24 Connecticut Big East 36-14-1 29
25 Charlotte Atlantic 10 38-12 27
26 Arizona Pac-10 31-17 26
27 Stetson Atlantic Sun 39-13 23
28 Oklahoma State Big 12 33-18 25
29 California Pac-10 28-16 30
30 East Carolina C-USA 34-17 NR

Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Auburn (28-24), Coastal
Carolina (34-17), Creighton (35-13), Dallas Baptist (37-15), Elon
(34-18), FIU (35-16-1), Gonzaga (28-14-1), James Madison (34-17), Kent
State (36-13), LSU (33-19), Mississippi State (32-19), Monmouth (34-17),
St. John’s (30-17), Stony Brook (37-10), Texas State (34-17), Troy
(37-15), UCF (33-19).

Dropped Out: Coastal Carolina (28).

By conference: ACC 6, Pac-10 6, Big 12 4, SEC 4, C-USA 3, Big West 2,
A-10 1, A-Sun 1, Big East 1, MWC 1, WAC 1.

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DALLAS – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues
its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 14th year with its 2011
weekly surveys. Polls will be circulated from Feb. 21-June 28 following
the 65th annual NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb., at the new TD
Ameritade Stadium.

To date, TCU and UCLA have held the No. 1 NCBWA rankings in ’11.

The poll voters come from 40 college baseball writers and related media
persons from throughout the nation. This week’s poll has representation
by 10 different conferences among the 300 baseball-playing schools in
the 2010 NCAA Division I ranks, and there have been 12 circuits in the
early surveys this season. Last year there were 16 different leagues
(from 30 in NCAA Division I) among the Top 30 polls. For more
information or to join the NCBWA, please go to www.ncbwa.com.

Rank School Conference Overall Record Previous Rank
1 UCLA Pacific-10 3-0 2
2 Florida Southeastern 3-0 3
3 Vanderbilt SEC 4-0 4
4 Oklahoma Big 12 4-0 5
5 TCU Mountain West 2-1 1
6 South Carolina SEC 3-0 8
7 Texas Big 12 3-1 6
8 Florida State Atlantic Coast 3-0 10
9 Arizona State Pac-10 3-0 11
10 Virginia ACC 3-0 13
11 Clemson ACC 2-1 7
12 Stanford Pac-10 2-1 14
13 Texas A&M Big 12 3-0 16
14 LSU SEC 3-0 19
15 Cal State Fullerton Big West 1-2 9
16 Louisville Big East 3-0 22
17 Coastal Carolina Big South 3-1 18
18 Rice Conference USA 1-2 15
19 Oregon Pac-10 1-2 12
20 Arkansas SEC 3-0 24
21 North Carolina ACC 4-0 29
22 Miami (Fla.) ACC 2-1 20
23 Arizona Pac-10 3-0 25
24 Georgia Tech ACC 2-1 21
25 College of Charleston Southern 3-0 26
26 UC Irvine Big West 3-0 27
27 Auburn SEC 2-1 23
28 Connecticut Big East 1-2 17
29 Alabama SEC 3-0 28
30 California Pac-10 2-0 30

Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Baylor (2-1),
Bethune-Cookman (3-0), Charlotte (4-0), East Carolina (3-0), FAU (3-0),
Fresno State (2-0), Hawai’i (2-1), James Madison (4-0), Kansas State
(3-0), Long Beach State (1-1), Mercer (3-1), Ole Miss (3-0), Oregon
State (2-1), San Diego (1-3), Southeast Missouri State (2-1),
Southeastern Louisiana (2-1), Southern Miss (3-0), St. John’s (2-1),
Troy, (4-0), Tulane (2-1), UCF (3-0), Virginia Tech (2-1), Wichita
State (3-0).

Dropped Out: None.

By conference: SEC 7, ACC 6, Pac-10 6, Big 12 3, Big East 2, Big West 2,
Big South 1, C-USA 1, MWC 1, Southern 1.

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