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WHITSON
AUSTIN, Tex. – Landon Whitson, a senior reliever who set a single-season record for saves for Lenoir-Rhyne University this baseball season, has earned Academic All-District honors.
Whitson’s selection to the NCAA Division II first team — as picked by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) — was announced on Thursday via an LRU press release.
He has a GPA of 3.54 while majoring in exercise science at LRU, and he played high school baseball at McDowell.
Whitson registered nine saves this season, earning first-team All-South Atlantic Conference (SAC) honors after going 3-1 with an ERA of 2.01 with 42 strikeouts for the Bears (27-22, 13-14).
As an all-district pick, Whitson qualifies for consideration for first- and second-team Academic All-America honors. Those will be announced in June.
NCAA DIVISION II – DISTRICT III (BASEBALL)
(Conference Carolinas, Peach Belt, South Atlantic)
FIRST TEAM
P – Dillon Cate, Carson-Newman, 4.00, Gr., Business
P – Landon Whitson, Lenoir-Rhyne, 3.54, Sr., Exercise Science
C – Thomas Yoder, Belmont Abbey, 3.93, Sr., Mathematics
INF – Collin Allman, Newberry, 3.50, So., Business Administration
INF – Connor Cleary, Coker, 3.93, Sr., Social Sciences
INF – Nate Schmal, Georgia College, 3.64, Sr., Management Information Systems
INF – Jackson Strange, Anderson, 3.91, Jr., Mathematics / Actuarial Science
OF – Ty Andrus, Wingate, 4.00, Sr., Criminal Justice
OF – Logan Mattix, Georgia College, 3.66, Sr., Marketing
OF – Tyler Washington, Young Harris College, 3.88, Sr., Psychology
DH – Ben Herring, Newberry, 3.91, Sr., International Studies
— Reported by LRU Sports Information