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2009 All-Americans included 2010 Major League Baseball Draft #1 pick Stephen Strasburg (left) and Seattle Mariners second basemen Dustin Ackley (right). An All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position—who in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and ...
He was named a freshman All-American by Louisville Slugger [5] and the Big Ten Conference (Big Ten) All-Freshman of the Team. [6] Following his freshman season at Purdue, Plawecki played collegiate summer baseball for the Richmond RiverRats of the Prospect League, where he batted 65-for-211 (.308) with fifteen doubles and 27 RBIs. [7] As a ...
The 2009 season marked the sixty third NCAA baseball tournament, which culminated with the eight team College World Series. The College World Series was held in Omaha, Nebraska. The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with LSU claiming their sixth championship with a two games to one series win over Texas in the final.
The finish was good for fifth place in the CWS. Wichita State would go on to win the National Championship, fighting off elimination three times more. Six of the 11 all-CWS team were members of the Wichita State Shockers, including Eric Wedge. Arkansas Razorbacks outfielder Troy Eklund was elected to the All-American team.
Annually, ESPN HS (formerly ESPN RISE) selected 30 juniors, 20 sophomores, and 10 freshmen as boys' high school basketball Underclass All-Americans. [1] MaxPreps.com also chooses annual underclass All-American teams. [2] [3] These teams were called the Junior All-American Team, the Sophomore All-American Team and the Freshman All-American Team.
Only one team from the 2009 CWS, Arizona State, returned for 2010. This was the 18th consecutive year that the SEC has fielded at least one team in the College World Series. South Carolina pitcher Matt Price (first team) and first baseman Christian Walker (second team) were named Freshman All-Americans by Baseball America.
Thirty teams were awarded an automatic bid as champions of their conference, and 34 teams were selected at-large by the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee. The 2009 tournament culminated with 8 teams advancing to the College World Series at historic Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska , beginning on June 13.
The March 6 game at Fluor Field was the first game between both schools at that stadium and the first game played in Greenville since the 1990 season. Head Coach Ray Tanner recorded his 600th victory at USC with a 10–1 win over The Citadel on March 30, and his 1,000th career victory with a 2–0 win over Vanderbilt on April 11.