DURHAM – Duke senior
RJ Schreck was named to the Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award Watch List, the organization announced Tuesday.
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Schreck has appeared in 93 games, including 77 starts, in three seasons in Durham and is a career .288/.392/.519 hitter. He joins LuJames Groover III (NC State), Yohandy Morales (Miami), Maxwell Romero Jr. (Miami) and Brock Wilken (Wake Forest) as the lone five ACC players on the list.
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Last season, the Los Angeles, Calif., native earned Third Team All-ACC and Second Team ABCA All-Atlantic honors after ranking in the top-10 in the ACC in batting average (.337), home runs (18), hits (70), RBIs (52) and runs scored (49). His .635 slugging percentage ranked in the top 10 all-time at Duke.
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Schreck enters the 2022 season tabbed a Preseason All-American by
Collegiate Baseball and was rated the No. 12 outfielder in the country by
D1Baseball.
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The BBCSA originally started out in 2017 as an honor going to the top college hitter in Texas. In 2019, the BBCSA expanded becoming a regional award covering Division I programs in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Oklahoma. The BBCSA became a national award in 2020; however, no winner was announced due to the COVID-19 virus which cut the 2020 college baseball season short.
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The winner of the BBCSA will be announced in June and honored at a gala in the fall at the Fort Worth Club. Texas Tech's Hunter Hargrove won the initial BBCSA in 2017. Dallas Baptist's Devlin Granberg took home the honor in 2018 with Texas Tech's Josh Jung winning the award in 2019. Last year's winner was Connor Norby from East Carolina University.
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Schreck and the Blue Devils open the 2022 season at home on Friday against VMI, the first game in a three-game series versus the Keydets.
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