NC State Newsstand: Pack baseball earns more All-America honors
NC State baseball’s postseason accolades continue to roll in following the Wolfpack’s run to the Men’s College World Series in Omaha earlier this month. Graduate third baseman Alec Makarewicz and junior catcher Jacob Cozart earned All-America honors from D1Baseball this week.
Makarewicz, the Pack’s leading hitter, was a second team selection, while Cozart, the team’s reliable backstop, was a third team pick. Both have earned several other All-America honors this postseason, including Baseball America’s on Friday.
A former East Carolina transfer, Makarewicz was a second team All-ACC pick and the Raleigh Regional’s Most Outstanding Player. He paced the Pack with a .378 average, 24 home runs, 25 doubles, 195 total ases — a single-season record – and 84 RBI.
The Longwood, Fla., native also hit .395 in the NCAA Tournament with five home runs, five doubles and 13 RBI.
Cozart, meanwhile, was a first team All-ACC selection and was one of three finalists for the Buster Posey Award, which honors the nation’s top catcher. He hit .305 with 19 home runs, 54 RBI and 60 runs scored this spring. Cozart also walked 52 times, which is the second-most in a single season in program history.
The backstop also threw out 14 base runners this season, including 13 in the regular season to lead the ACC. He’s expected to be an early-round draft pick in this summer’s MLB Draft as the No. 42 prospect, according to MLB.com.
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Four-star wing Bryce Heard took an official visit to NC State earlier this week. The Wolfpack knocked his trip to Raleigh out of the park.
“I set the bar really high for them, and honestly, they blew it away,” Heard said of his NC State official visit. “It went past what I thought it was going to be. It was good being out there and seeing the campus up close and personal.”
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