

The Gators standout led UF to a 20-10 SEC mark (tied for first overall with Arkansas) and an SEC-most 48 victories entering the Super Regionals. He also has been a key starting rotation pitcher for UF with a 7-3 record, and 81 strikeouts in 69 innings. He tossed a clutch, complete game against Tulane in LSU’s opening NCAA tournament victory with 12 strikeouts, two walks and seven hits allowed in the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional.Ĭaglianone, a 2023 All-Southeastern Conference First Team selection via Tampa, Florida, is the all-time leader for home runs in a season for the Gators with 31 (tops nationally through June 8 contests) and the first SEC slugger to hit 30-plus homers since the 2003 season. The Tigers star sports an 11-2 record and possessed an ERA below 1.00 for most of the season and is currently fourth nationally with a 1.90 standard. His 179 strikeouts are the most in NCAA Division I, and he averages 16.6 whiffs and just 1 1/2 walks for every nine innings pitched. Skenes, a fire-balling right-hander and transfer from Air Force, from Lake Forest, California, was the 2023 SEC Pitcher of the Year, Collegiate Baseball’s Player of the Year and a finalist for USA Baseball’s Golden Spikes Award. He withdrew from consideration for the 2021 Major League Baseball draft to continue his education and to help the Tigers ascend back to their place of diamond prominence. Crews was an All-Southeastern Conference All-Defensive Team member and was recently named a finalist for the USA Baseball’s Golden Spikes Award. The 2023 Southeastern Conference Player of the Year junior standout helped LSU remain atop national rankings for the first 11 weeks of 2023 and a sweep of the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional. 432 average – third in the country – and a team-most 95 hits in 61 games.
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(CDT) in the media room at Charles Schwab Park prior to the 76th NCAA College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska.Īll five NCAA Division I standouts have earned All-America and all-conference status and are expected to be featured on next week’s NCBWA All-America squads.Ĭrews, a power-hitting member of LSU’s Super Regional Team from Longwood, Florida, enters the final weekend before the NCAA Baseball College World Series with a.

(CDT) hour and on Friday, June 16 at a national news conference at 10 a.m. The 2023 winner will be announced on Thursday, June 15, on MLB Network during the 9 a.m. LSU All-American first baseman Eddy Furniss won the Dick Howser Trophy in 1998 after leading the Tigers to a third straight College World Series appearance.

The five finalists for the Howser Trophy, which has been presented since 1987 except for the 2020 COVID-shortened season, are Crews, Skenes, sophomore 1B/SP Jac Caglianone of Florida, junior SP Rhett Lowder of Wake Forest, and sophomore 2B JJ Wetherholt of West Virginia. The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and the Dick Howser Trophy Committee on Thursday named the finalists for the 36th Dick Howser Trophy, awarded annually to the national player of the year. DALLAS – LSU junior centerfielder Dylan Crews and junior right-handed pitcher Paul Skenes are two of the five finalists for the 2023 Dick Howser Trophy.
