Louisville Slugger Names Three Gators To Preseason All-American Teams
Friday, December 17, 2010 | Baseball
Sophomore Austin Maddox (Jacksonville, Fla.), junior Alex Panteliodis (Tampa, Fla.) and junior Preston Tucker (Tampa, Fla.) were each named to the 2011 Louisville Slugger Preseason All-America Team released on Friday by Collegiate Baseball newspaper.
Chosen to the second team, Panteliodis led Florida in an assortment of categories last season: innings pitched (100.0), strikeouts (82), victories (11) and lowest batting average against by a starting pitcher (.234). Over 18 appearances, the left-hander was 11-3 with a 3.51 earned run average. His total of 11 victories was the most by a Gator since Justin Hoyman went 11-2 in 2004 and he was second on the squad with 16 starts behind Hudson Randall (Atlanta, Ga.) (17). Panteliodis went 4-2 with a 3.92 ERA in 10 SEC starts and was named to the Primetime Performer Weekly Honor Roll produced by CollegeBaseball360.com for the third time during the season after his outstanding effort against Miami (Fla.) in the opener of the best-of-three NCAA Gainesville Super Regional. The southpaw went the distance for his first career complete game and established a personal best with 12 strikeouts as the Gators posted a 7-2 triumph. He retired the final 14 Hurricane hitters of the contest and yielded three hits to register UF's first complete game since Stephen Locke accomplished the feat against Alabama on May 10, 2008.
A third-team selection, Maddox was the SEC's 2010 Freshman of the Year and was named a third-team All-American by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) for his tremendous performance as a freshman. He was the first rookie from Florida to earn All-America recognition since Brad Wilkerson accomplished the feat in 1996. Maddox was named to Freshman All-America teams by Baseball America, Lou?isville Slugger, NCBWA and Yahoo! Sports, earned second-team All-SEC recognition and was chosen to the league's All-Freshman Team. He started 63 games in four different spots - third base (29), designated hitter (19), first base (14) and catcher (1). Maddox hit .333 and held the top spot in RBI (72), multi-RBI games (21), homers (17), hit-by-pitches (eight) and sacrifice flies (five). He scored 48 runs, poked 16 doubles and 37 of his 72 RBI came with two out. In league play, Maddox batted .316 with 33 RBI, 23 runs and 11 round-trippers.
A third-team honoree, Tucker earned second-team All-SEC honors last spring and was a member of the league's All-Defensive Team. He started 50 games at first base, seven in right field and six at designated hitter and hit .331 with 50 runs, 49 RBI, 43 walks, 17 doubles, 11 homers and eight stolen bases. Against conference competition, Tucker had a .312 average with 21 RBI, 21 walks, 20 runs, nine doubles and six HR. The 2009 SEC Co-Freshman of the Year picked up All-Tourney recognition at the Gainesville Regional after batting .400 (6-for-15) with four RBI and two runs and was UF's top hitter as a position player at the SEC Tourney with a .313 (5-for-13) clip.
Head coach Kevin O'Sullivan's squad captured the 2010 SEC title, its 11th league crown in school history, with a program-best 22-8 league mark and claimed nine of the 10 league series. In addition, the Gators won the SEC Eastern Division title for the second-straight year, their first time earning back-to-back divisional flags since the squad collected three in a row from 1996-98. UF then advanced to the NCAA College World Series in Omaha, Neb., for the first time in five years after sweeping the Regional and Super Regional rounds on its own turf and finished with an overall mark of 47-17. The Gators will open the season on Feb. 18 with a three-game series against USF at McKethan Stadium.
2011 Preseason Louisville Slugger All-America Team (2010 Stats)
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| Pos. Name, School | Cl. | BA | G | AB | R | H | 2B-3B-HR | RBI |
| C – Peter O'Brien, Bethune-Cookman | Jr. | .384 | 57 | 203 | 51 | 78 | 13-0-20 | 56 |
| 1B – Paul Hoilman, East Tennessee State | Jr. | .421 | 60 | 235 | 79 | 99 | 24-2-25 | 84 |
| 2B – Zack MacPhee, Arizona State | Jr. | .389 | 57 | 229 | 67 | 89 | 8-14-9 | 64 |
| 3B - Anthony Rendon, Rice | So. | .394 | 63 | 226 | 83 | 89 | 12-1-26 | 85 |
| SS – B.A. Vollmuth, Southern Miss | Jr. | .386 | 60 | 236 | 72 | 91 | 17-2-20 | 76 |
| OF – Alex Dickerson, Indiana | So. | .419 | 55 | 236 | 62 | 99 | 19-0-24 | 75 |
| OF – George Springer, Connecticut | Jr. | .337 | 64 | 243 | 84 | 82 | 16-4-18 | 62 |
| OF – Jackie Bradley, Jr., So. Carolina | Jr. | .368 | 67 | 242 | 56 | 89 | 12-1-13 | 60 |
| DH – Garrett Wittels, FIU | Jr. | .413 | 56 | 242 | 47 | 100 | 21-2-2 | 60 |
| UT – Mike McGee, Florida State | Sr. | .328 | 68 | 250 | 61 | 82 | 15-1-17 | 73 |
| Pitching: 4-1 record, 2.96 ERA, 20 G, 1 GS, 0 CG, 13 SV, 27 IP, 18 BB, 33 SO |
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| Name, School | Cl. | ERA | W-L | G | IP | BB | SO | SV |
| RHP – Trevor Bauer, UCLA | Jr. | 3.02 | 12-3 | 18 | 132.0 | 41 | 165 | 0 |
| LHP – Danny Hultzen, Virginia | So. | 2.78 | 11-1 | 16 | 106.2 | 24 | 122 | 0 |
| RHP – Taylor Jungmann, Texas | Jr. | 2.03 | 8-3 | 17 | 120.0 | 41 | 129 | 0 |
| LHP – Matt Purke, TCU | So. | 3.02 | 16-0 | 20 | 116.1 | 42 | 142 | 0 |
| RHP – Gerrit Cole, UCLA | Jr. | 3.37 | 11-4 | 19 | 123.2 | 52 | 153 | 0 |
| RHP – Noe Ramirez, Cal State Fullerton | Sr. | 2.54 | 12-1 | 16 | 106.0 | 19 | 119 | 0 |
| RP – John Stilson, Texas A&M | So. | 0.80 | 9-1 | 33 | 79.0 | 23 | 114 | 10 |
Second Team
C – Jeff Bandy, Arizona
1B – Jordan Ribera, Fresno State
1B – C.J. Cron, Utah
2B – Ryan Wright, Louisville
2B – Kolten Wong, Hawaii
3B – Ricky Oropesa, Southern California
3B – Jason Esposito, Vanderbilt
SS – Kenny Diekroeger, Stanford
OF – Mikie Mahtook, LSU
OF – Jeremy Baltz, St. John's
OF – Chad Oberacker, Tennessee Tech
UT – Nick Ramirez, Cal State Fullerton
Pitchers
RHP – Cole Green, Texas
RHP – Sonny Gray, Vanderbilt
RHP – Anthony Meo, Coastal Carolina
RHP – Kyle Winkler, TCU
RHP – Steven Maxwell, TCU
LHP – Alex Panteliodis, FLORIDA
RHP – Tim Kelley, Wichita State
RP – Chris Dennis, Portland
RP – Matt Price, South Carolina
Third Team
C – James McCann, Arkansas
1B/3B – Austin Maddox, FLORIDA
1B – Doug Shribman, Bucknell
1B – Nate Woods, Belmont
2B – Dan Paolini, Siena
2B – Kevin Tokarski, Illinois State
3B – Riccio Torrez, Arizona State
3B – Harold Martinez, Miami (Fla.)
3B – John Hinson, Clemson
3B – Jacob Tanis, Mercer
3B – Garrett Buechele, Oklahoma
3B – Matt Skole, Georgia Tech
3B – Matt Leeds, College of Charleston
SS – Deven Marrero, Arizona State
SS – Brad Miller, Clemson
SS – Levi Michael, North Carolina
OF – Kyle Gaedele, Valparaiso
OF – Jason Coats, TCU
OF – Preston Tucker, FLORIDA
UT – Andy Mee, Florida Atlantic
Pitchers
RHP – Tony Zych, Louisville
LHP – Tyler Anderson, Oregon
RHP – Kyle Hanson, St. John's
RHP – Mark Pope, Georgia Tech
LHP – Jed Bradley, Georgia Tech
LHP – Mitchell Lambson, Arizona State
RHP – Kurt Heyer, Arizona
RHP – Nick Tropeano, Stony Brook
RHP – Seth Maness, East Carolina
RHP – Matt Barnes, Connecticut
RHP – Carson Smith, Texas State
RP – Kevin McKague, Army
RP – Trever Vermeulen, South Dakota State
RP – Paul Snieder, Northwestern
RP – Lex Rutledge, Samford
