Three days after securing a Massive 12 common season title, the Longhorns introduced house a set of eight awards, headlined by junior Lucas Gordon’s Pitcher of the Yr honor.
Gordon’s marketing campaign featured a formidable 2.48 ERA over 83.1 innings pitched, each high two within the Massive 12. Amongst beginning pitchers with over 70 innings pitched (10 whole), Gordon gave up the least quantity of earned runs (23) and struck out the fourth most batters (85) whereas giving up simply eight house runs all 12 months.
Becoming a member of Gordon on the primary workforce was junior catcher Garret Guillemette, outfielder Porter Brown, outfielder Dylan Campbell and redshirt sophomore pitcher Lebarron Johnson Jr. Junior third baseman Peyton Powell additionally hauled in an All Massive 12 second workforce honor. The trio of batters mixed for 39 house runs with 156 RBIs and a mean OPS (on base and slugging) of 1.031 of their 56 video games of motion. Johnson Jr. was third within the Massive 12 in ERA and held opponents to a .213 batting common. The fireballer additionally gave up the least quantity of hits amongst certified starters within the convention.
Freshman first baseman Jared Thomas additionally acquired an award, being positioned on the Massive 12’s all-freshman workforce, the primary honoree since present Longhorn Mitchell Daly two years in the past. Thomas was certainly one of 5 batters chosen for the workforce, ending third in OPS by a freshman and was one of many Massive 12’s most affected person hitters, hanging out simply 30 occasions in 182 at-bats.
Although he was not in a position to win coach of the 12 months, 5 All Massive 12 first-team choices are probably the most which have ever been acquired on a David Pierce led Texas workforce, and eight separate Longhorns receiving awards can be a private finest for Pierce.
Texas will look so as to add extra awards to their shelf because the Massive 12 match begins on Wednesday, Might 24 towards the Kansas Jayhawks.
