Find out which 4 Texas Tech baseball players are all-Big 12 honorees
Texas Tech baseball outfielders Damian Bravo and Logan Hughes made the first team and first baseman Robin Villeneuve and pitcher Jack Cebert made the second team on the all-Big 12 teams released Tuesday, May 20.
Hughes is leading the conference with 19 home runs. The sophomore from DeLand, Florida, is batting .333 with 58 runs batted in. Bravo, a junior from Haltom, is batting .336 with 13 homers and 51 RBIs. Villeneuve, a senior from Gatineau, Quebec, is batting .362 with 11 homers and 47 RBIs.
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Cebert, a senior from Tampa, Florida, is 7-3 with a 3.44 earned-run average.
The honorees were selected by the Big 12's head coaches, who could not vote for their own players. The teams were released on the eve of the Big 12 tournament that starts Wednesday, May 21, at Globe Life Field in Arlington. There were 19 players on the first team and 20 on the second team.
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Texas Tech's Logan Hughes hustles after making contact against UC San Diego during a non-conference Division I baseball game, Tuesday, March 4, 2025, at Dan Law Field.
Individual awards went to Cincinnati third baseman Kerrington Cross (player of the year), Houston lefthander Antoine Jean (pitcher of the year), Oklahoma State pitcher Harrison Bodendorf and Arizona State shortstop Matt King (co-newcomers of the year), TCU outfielder Sawyer Strosnider (freshman of the year) and Arizona relief pitcher Tony Pluta (scholar-athlete).
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Kansas' Dan Fitzgerald was voted by his peers as Big 12 coach of the year. Kansas was picked ninth in the coaches' preseason poll and finished second, going 42-14 and 20-10 in conference play.
Cross' .414 batting average is 10th in NCAA Division I, second among players in power conferences. His on-base percentage (.538) is fifth in Division I.
Jean is the first reliever to be Big 12 pitcher of the year. He's second in Division I in hits allowed per nine innings (5.14) and strikeouts per nine innings (14.86) and has a .162 opponent batting average.
King, a transfer from UT-San Antonio, is batting .401 and led Big 12 players with 53 hits in conference games. Bodendorf, a lefty transfer from Hawaii, is 10-1 with a 2.43 ERA.
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Strosnider (.360-10-50) has nine triples, tied for the most in Division I. He also tied for the third-most runs in conference games with 34 in 29 games. Pluta has a Big 12-leading 11 saves and has a 3.92 grade-point average while majoring in aerospace engineering.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: See the 4 Texas Tech baseball players who are all-Big 12 honorees
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