Crowe Earns Preseason All-America Honors From Baseball America

Jan. 30, 2017

Columbia, S.C. ââ’¬” South Carolina junior right-hander Wil Crowe earned third-team Preseason All-America honors from Baseball America as announced on Monday morning. South Carolina opens the 2017 season on Friday, Feb. 17 hosting UNCG.

Crowe returns to the mound this season after sitting out the 2016 campaign recovering from Tommy John surgery. Crowe went 8-3 and earned Freshman All-America honors in 2014 with a 2.75 ERA in 91.2 innings pitched. Opponents hit .228 against him. He also won three games in 2015 before suffering the injury that sidelined him the rest of the season.

Crowe is the fourth Gamecock to earn Preseason All-America honors this year. Junior right-hander Clarke Schmidt received preseason accolades from Collegiate Baseball and Perfect Game with junior right-hander Tyler Johnson a preseason first-team selection by Perfect Game and senior left-hander Josh Reagan honored by Collegiate Baseball.

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South Carolina won the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship in 2010 and 2011 at the College World Series. South Carolina has made 11 College World Series appearances including six times in the last 15 years. In those 11 appearances, the Gamecocks are 32-20 for a .615 winning percentage, that is sixth-best among winning percentage leaders in CWS history. South Carolina is one of three schools in the nation to have reached at least 12 NCAA Super Regionals since 2000 and has the most NCAA Super Regional appearances of the 14 SEC schools since 2000. In addition, the Gamecocks own the second-highest win total in Division I baseball since 2000 (791-332 record) and more conference wins than any SEC team since 2000 (308-198 record). Recently, South Carolina is one of only four schools in the nation to host a NCAA Regional in six of the last seven years.