Lucas Gordon, Dylan Campbell earn spots on All-America teams
Texas placed two players on Baseball America’s All-America team and one on the D1Baseball.com honor squad on its way to a tie for the Big 12 Conference’s regular-season championship and an appearance in the super regional one step away from the College World Series.
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Longhorn left-handed starting pitcher Lucas Gordon earned All-America spots on the second team from both Baseball America and D1Baseball after garnering Big 12 pitcher of the year honors.
Right fielder Dylan Campbell, who shattered the Longhorns’ program record and the conference mark for consecutive games with a hit this season, was named to Baseball America’s third team.
Other Big 12 players to garner All-America honors from Baseball America were second baseman JJ Wetherholt of West Virginia (who was the league’s player of the year) and was the conference’s lone member of the first team; relief pitcher Tyson Neighbors of Kansas State on the second team; and designated hitter Braden Taylor of TCU on the third team.
Including the above, the Longhorns played against 11 players that were on Baseball America’s All-America teams, including first-team members Tommy White, Dylan Crews and Paul Skenes of national champion LSU; Alberto Rios of Stanford; Andrew Walters of Miami; second-team honoree Quinn Mathews of Stanford; third-team members Tommy Troy of Stanford, and Hagen Lewis of Arkansas.
Wetherholt and Neighbors both earned spots on the D1Baseball All-America first team as the only other members of the Big 12 other than Gordon. Campbell did not garner a spot on the publication’s honor roll.
Other Texas opponents to land on the D1Baseball All-America teams were Crews and Skenes of LSU, Rios and Matthews of Stanford and Walters of Miami on the first team; White of LSU and Smith of Arkansas on the second team; and Troy of Stanford, Joe Redfield of Sam Houston and Yohandy Morales of Miami on the third team.
