UMaine slugger Jeremiah Jenkins piles up post-season awards
The accolades maintain piling up for College of Maine first baseman Jeremiah Jenkins.
The sophomore from Higher Marlboro, Maryland, who was named the America East Participant of the Yr, was additionally lately named the District 1 Participant of the Yr by the Nationwide Collegiate Baseball Writers Affiliation.
The District 1 states are Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
As well as, he was chosen as a 3rd group All-American, a primary group All-America East selection, an America East All-Event choose and a semifinalist for the Dick Howser Trophy, which works to the nation’s finest Division I participant.
Jenkins hit .365 with 21 homers and 76 runs batted in for the Black Bears to make them their first America East match championship and NCAA Event berth since 2011. UMaine was additionally the league’s common season titlist for the second straight 12 months.
He hit safely in 40 of his 53 video games and had 21 multiple-hit video games. He drove in a minimum of a run in 32 video games and had eight video games with 4 or extra RBIs, together with three with six RBIs.
He homered in 18 video games, together with three two-homer video games.
His 1.43 RBIs have been sixth within the nation amongst gamers from 295 Division I colleges. He was seventeenth in slugging proportion at .756, twentieth in homers per recreation at .40 and was thirty seventh in on-base proportion at .492.
Jenkins had been the designated hitter as a freshman however was the primary baseman this season and consistently improved over the course of the season.
He completed with a .993 subject proportion as he made simply three errors in 456 probabilities.
The lefthanded-hitting 6-foot-4, 238-pound Jenkins hit the ball to all fields and in addition had 12 doubles and a triple to go along with his 21 homers.
He drew 39 walks, which was second on the group to Quinn McDaniel’s 60, and he was hit by a pitch 14 occasions, which tied him with Jake Rainess for the group lead.
