Frostburg State's Freimuth & Schiltz, Mary Washington's Haught Earn ABCA All-America Honors
Frostburg State's Clayton Freimuth and Bennett Schiltz and Mary Washington's Jono Haught earned All-America honors from the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) on Thursday at the NCAA's Championship banquet at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton, Wisc. Freimuth and Haught received second team accolades, while Schiltz was named to the third team.
Freimuth collected his second All-American honor in as many as days after being selected to the D3baseball.com All-American First Team Wednesday afternoon. The ABCA award is the fifth postseason honor for the left-hander that currently ranks sixth in the nation is strikeouts (97).
Freimuth is 13th in the nation in strikeouts per nine innings (11.24), 18th in fewest hits allowed per nine innings (5.91), 27th in victories (8) and 34th in ERA (1.62). The senior lefthander boasts an 8-2 record, limited opponents to a .193 batting average, registered two saves and has sparingly surrendered just 14 earned runs in nearly 73 innings pitched. He tossed the country's first no-hitter in February and has allowed zero earned runs in three starts.
Haught, a senior catcher for UMW, becomes UMW's first consensus All-American since 2005. Haught batted .457 on the season, hitting a school-record 10 home runs to go with 52 RBI, and scored 41 runs on 64 hits. He added nine doubles and four triples (a category in which he holds the school career record). A three-time CAC Player of the Week, Haught has already been named as the 2015 Capital Athletic Conference Player of the Year, and gained first team all-conference honors as well as consensus first team all-region honors. He was also named a D3baseball.com Second Team All-American earlier in the week.
Like Freimuth, Schiltz garnered All-American honors as one of the nation's elite starting pitchers. He is 10th in the country in wins (9), 18th in ERA (1.45) and has held opponents to just 12 earned runs in 12 appearances (74.1 inn.). The senior righthander hasn't allowed a run in six starts this season and has struckout a total of 59 batters.