All-American Teams College - Collegiate Baseball Newspaper

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release: Monday, Dec. 23, 2002

"LOUISVILLE SLUGGER'S" PRE-SEASON ALL-AMERICAN BASEBALL TEAMS

The three All-American teams include (with partial statistics from last season for first team members):

First Team Pre-Season All-Americans

LHP Justin Simmons, Texas (16-1, 2.52 ERA, 4 CG)

RHP Brad Sullivan, Houston (13-1, 1.82 ERA, 157 K, 49 BB)

RHP Tim Stauffer, Richmond (15-3, 1.54 ERA, 13 CG, 140 K, 34 BB)

RHP Kyle Sleeth, Wake Forest (14-0, 2.97 ERA, 113 K, 41 BB)

LHP Kyle Bakker, Georgia Tech. (13-2, 3.14 ERA, 115 K, 24 BB)

RHP Steven Herce, Rice (13-3, 2.79 ERA, 5 CG, 104 K, 23 BB)

Relief  Huston Street, Texas (14 SV, 0.96 ERA, 49 K, 9 BB)

C  Landon Powell, South Carolina (Great defense, .292, 17 2B, 12 HR, 53 RBI)

C  Tony Richie, Florida St. (Superb defense, .353, 17 2B, 13 HR, 75 RBI)

1B  Vincent Sinisi, Rice (.428, 22 2B, 11 HR, 80 RBI)

2B  Rickie Weeks, Southern (.495, 15 2B, 20 HR, 12 3B, 96 RBI, 10 SB)

3B  Antoin Gray, Southern (.449, 18 2B, 19 HR, 77 RBI)

SS  Stephen Drew, Florida St. (.402, 15 2B, 16 HR, 54 RBI, 13 SB)

OF  Ryan Goleski, Eastern Michigan (.381, 17 2B, 22 HR, 70 RBI)

OF  Vito Chiaravalloti, Richmond (.357, 17 2B, 23 HR, 86 RBI)

OF  Ryan McGraw, Coastal Carolina (.382, 10 2B, 5 HR, 43 RBI, 63 SB)

UT  Michael Aubrey, Tulane (.316, 15 2B, 7 HR, 52 RBI, 8-1 pitching record, 4.45 ERA, 36 K, 18 BB)

 

Second Team Pre-Season All-Americans

RHP Derek DeCarlo, Florida International

LHP Abe Alvarez, Long Beach St.

RHP Bobby Sawicki, S.W. Texas St.

LHP Matt Lynch, Florida St.

RHP Philip Humber, Rice

RHP Justin Verlander, Old Dominion

Relief  Chad Cordero, Cal. St. Fullerton

C  Chris Westervelt, Stetson

C  Ryan Garko, Stanford

1B  Michael Johnson, Clemson

2B  Tim Moss, Texas

3B  Jamie D’Antona, Wake Forest

SS  David Reaver, Richmond

OF  Dustin Majewski, Texas

OF  Matt Murton, Georgia Tech.

OF  Jeff Leise, Nebraska

UT   Wes Whisler, UCLA

 

Third Team Pre-Season All-Americans

LHP Jeremy Sowers, Vanderbilt

RHP Ryan Schroyer, Arizona St.

RHP Jake Tompkins, Louisiana St.

RHP Grant Johnson, Notre Dame

RHP Jeff Watchko, Georgia Tech.

RHP Wes Littleton, Cal. St. Fullerton

LHP Paul Maholm, Mississippi St.

RHP Matt Durkin, San Jose St.

RHP Scooter Michael, N.C. Greensboro

RHP Jered Weaver, Long Beach St.

LHP Scott Lewis, Ohio St.

Relief  Daniel Hodges, Florida St.

Relief  James Russell, Villanova

Relief  David Aardsma, Rice

Relief  George Huguet, Miami (Fla.)

C  Jeremy West, Arizona St.

C  David Castillo, Oral Roberts

C  Brady Burrill, Michigan St.

1B  Kelly Hunt, Bowling Green St.

1B  Bryan Zenchyk, Stetson

1B  Eddie Kim, James Madison

1B  Joey Metropoulos, Southern California

2B  Eric Patterson, Georgia Tech.

3B  Darryl Lawhorn, East Carolina

3B  Conor Jackson, California

3B  Lee Curtis, Coll. of Charleston

3B  Aaron Hill, Louisiana St.

3B  Brian Snyder, Stetson

3B  Kevin Matuszek, Morehead St.

SS  Brian Bixler, Eastern Michigan

SS  Anthony Lunetta, Southern California

OF  Shane Costa, Cal. St. Fullerton

OF  Jeff Barry, Vermont

OF  Sam Fuld, Stanford

OF  Terry Trofholz, Texas Christian

OF  Cary Page, Morehead St.