Lee, Thorpe Land on Collegiate Baseball's All-American First Team
6/2/2022 9:52:00 AM | Baseball
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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Cal Poly shortstop Brooks Lee, a five-time All-American last year, and pitcher Drew Thorpe have earned their first All-American awards of the 2022 season.
Collegiate Baseball placed both Mustang redshirt sophomores on the first team.
Both Lee and Thorpe are up for several other honors, including Brooks Wallace and National Pitcher of the Year awards, respectively, and semifinalists for both the Dick Howser Trophy and Golden Spikes Award national player of the year awards.
Lee helped lead Cal Poly to another outstanding season and second-place finish in the Big West. On the year, he hit .357 with 25 doubles, 15 home runs and 55 RBIs to go with a .951 fielding percentage.
Lee led the Big West in hits (84), walks (46), doubles (25), home runs (15), runs scored (56), RBIs (55), slugging percentage (.664) and total bases (156) and was second in batting average (.357) and on-base percentage (.462).
The San Luis Obispo High School graduate produced hitting streaks of 19 and 12 games and led the Mustangs with 26 multiple-hit games and 16 multiple-RBI contests. Twice he was named Big West Field Player of the Week, giving Lee five such awards in his Mustang career.
Thorpe went 10-1 and compiled a 2.32 ERA with 149 strikeouts in 104.2 innings of work on the mound. He held opposing hitters to a .175 batting average and earned quality starts in his final 14 starts of the season.
Thorpe wrapped up his 2022 season last Thursday in a 5-3 win at Hawai'i, notching 10 strikeouts over eight innings to regain the national lead in strikeouts.
He surrendered three runs on four hits and a walk in the first inning, then shut the door on the Rainbow Warriors by retiring 11 straight, 14 of 15 and 22 of 24 Hawai'i batters. He retired the side in order five times.
Thorpe is Cal Poly's first 10-game winner since Casey Bloomquist earned 12 victories and Matt Imhof added 10, both in 2014.
The season-ending win for Thorpe marked the ninth time he had recorded double-digit strikeouts in 2022 and the 13th of his Mustang career.
Thorpe surpassed the school single-season strikeout mark of 140 set by Erik Bratlein in 1988. He also is No. 4 in career strikeouts with 284, 12 shy of Dan Chergey's record set during the 1990-93 campaigns.
Thorpe's 149 strikeouts place him atop Shemar Page (143) of Grambling and Parker Messick (140) of Florida State on the national strikeouts list after last weekend's games.
In Thorpe's first full season at Cal Poly, he struck out 104 batters over 90 1/3 innings with a 6-6 record and 3.79 ERA.
Collegiate Baseball named Texas first baseman Ivan Melendez as its National Player of the Year. At the end of the regular season through 54 games, he was first in the nation in home runs (28), slugging percentage (.941) and total bases (190) and also was second in batting average (.421) and RBIs (85) and third with an on-base percentage of .531.
He also belted 17 doubles and committed just one error in 489 chances.
Lee and Thorpe were the only players from Big West Conference schools on Collegiate Baseball's All-American teams.
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Cal Poly shortstop Brooks Lee, a five-time All-American last year, and pitcher Drew Thorpe have earned their first All-American awards of the 2022 season.
Collegiate Baseball placed both Mustang redshirt sophomores on the first team.
Both Lee and Thorpe are up for several other honors, including Brooks Wallace and National Pitcher of the Year awards, respectively, and semifinalists for both the Dick Howser Trophy and Golden Spikes Award national player of the year awards.
Lee helped lead Cal Poly to another outstanding season and second-place finish in the Big West. On the year, he hit .357 with 25 doubles, 15 home runs and 55 RBIs to go with a .951 fielding percentage.
Lee led the Big West in hits (84), walks (46), doubles (25), home runs (15), runs scored (56), RBIs (55), slugging percentage (.664) and total bases (156) and was second in batting average (.357) and on-base percentage (.462).
The San Luis Obispo High School graduate produced hitting streaks of 19 and 12 games and led the Mustangs with 26 multiple-hit games and 16 multiple-RBI contests. Twice he was named Big West Field Player of the Week, giving Lee five such awards in his Mustang career.
Thorpe went 10-1 and compiled a 2.32 ERA with 149 strikeouts in 104.2 innings of work on the mound. He held opposing hitters to a .175 batting average and earned quality starts in his final 14 starts of the season.
Thorpe wrapped up his 2022 season last Thursday in a 5-3 win at Hawai'i, notching 10 strikeouts over eight innings to regain the national lead in strikeouts.
He surrendered three runs on four hits and a walk in the first inning, then shut the door on the Rainbow Warriors by retiring 11 straight, 14 of 15 and 22 of 24 Hawai'i batters. He retired the side in order five times.
Thorpe is Cal Poly's first 10-game winner since Casey Bloomquist earned 12 victories and Matt Imhof added 10, both in 2014.
The season-ending win for Thorpe marked the ninth time he had recorded double-digit strikeouts in 2022 and the 13th of his Mustang career.
Thorpe surpassed the school single-season strikeout mark of 140 set by Erik Bratlein in 1988. He also is No. 4 in career strikeouts with 284, 12 shy of Dan Chergey's record set during the 1990-93 campaigns.
Thorpe's 149 strikeouts place him atop Shemar Page (143) of Grambling and Parker Messick (140) of Florida State on the national strikeouts list after last weekend's games.
In Thorpe's first full season at Cal Poly, he struck out 104 batters over 90 1/3 innings with a 6-6 record and 3.79 ERA.
Collegiate Baseball named Texas first baseman Ivan Melendez as its National Player of the Year. At the end of the regular season through 54 games, he was first in the nation in home runs (28), slugging percentage (.941) and total bases (190) and also was second in batting average (.421) and RBIs (85) and third with an on-base percentage of .531.
He also belted 17 doubles and committed just one error in 489 chances.
Lee and Thorpe were the only players from Big West Conference schools on Collegiate Baseball's All-American teams.
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