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NC State baseball lands 5 players on All-ACC, All-Freshman teams

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Chris McHugh
Chris McHugh. (Photo credit: NC State Athletics)

After earning the No. 4 seed in the ACC Tournament, NC State landed five players on the league’s postseason awards Monday afternoon, the conference announced.

Sophomore first baseman Chris McHugh headlined the crop with second team All-ACC honors, while junior left-handed pitcher Dominic Fritton and sophomore lefty Ryan Marohn both were named third team All-ACC. The Pack also had two earn All-Freshman team nods via right-handed reliever Anderson Nance and outfielder Ty Head.

A postseason honor is nothing new for Fritton, who was an All-Freshman team selection in 2023, and the same goes for McHugh, a member of the Atlantic 10 All-Rookie team with VCU last spring.

McHugh finished his first season in Raleigh with a .377 batting average (third in the ACC) to go with seven home runs, 42 runs scored and 47 RBI. He paced the Pack with a .474 batting average, while also posting a .995 fielding percentage in the process. McHugh, NC State’s workhorse at first base, started the first 48 games before he missed the Stanford series with a hand injury.

Fritton, meanwhile, paced NC State with 78.1 innings pitched and 96 strikeouts. Should he add four more strikeouts to his total in the postseason, Fritton would be the Wolfpack’s first 100-strikeout ace since Carlos Rodon had 117 in 2014. Marohn is just behind the Pack’s top starter with 77.1 innings pitched with 81 strikeouts. He has limiting opposing hitters to a .253 average and has two complete game efforts.

That duo, which will likely anchor NC State in the postseason on the mound, is the only set of starters in the ACC to rank in the top 10 in both innings pitched and strikeouts this season.

While the Wolfpack’s veterans turned heads this season, so did a pair of rookies in Nance and Head.

Nance, the Pack’s most-steady reliever this season, leads the bullpen with 49 innings pitched. The freshman’s 8-1 record is the best mark since Sam Highfill won nine games in the 2021 campaign. Nance makes this the second season in a row where the Pack has an All-Freshman reliever, joining righty Jacob Dudan in that department.

Head, who has been the Pack’s everyday center fielder, finished the regular season with a .274 average, two home runs, 15 RBI and 22 runs scored. He is currently tied for sixth in program history for most walks in a season at 48 to this point.

NC State returns to the field in Thursday’s ACC Tournament quarterfinals against Clemson or Stanford/Virginia Tech. First pitch is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

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