BOCA RATON, Fla. – (May 17, 2019) – With the list whittled down from 91 to a batch of only 14, the Buster Posey National Collegiate Catcher of the Year Award list of semifinalists, announced Friday, includes Florida Atlantic University junior backstop Pedro Pages.
Pages continues to be an offensive leader and true top defender for the Owls. In addition to batting .311, he has shown increased patience at the plate, leading the team with a .434 on-base percentage (10th in Conference USA). He exceeded his career high in walks in the first game of April, and has more this season – 38, third-highest in C-USA – than in his first two combined. The Doral, Florida, native also has eight doubles, six home runs and 40 RBI. His defensive skill is cemented by throwing out 42.5% of baserunners (17 of 40), plus three pickoffs, while committing only two fielding errors in 384 chances towards a .992 fielding percentage behind the plate.
Here is the semifinalist list in its entirety:
· Patrick Bailey, sophomore, N.C. State
· Philip Clarke, sophomore, Vanderbilt
· Logan Driscoll, junior, George Mason
· Nick Kahle, junior, Washington
· Justin Kunz, senior, Gardner-Webb
· Shea Langeliers, junior, Baylor
· Korey Lee, junior, California
· Kyle McCann, junior, Georgia Tech
· Pedro Pages, junior, Florida Atlantic
· Adley Rutschman, junior, Oregon State
· Dustin Skelton, junior, Mississippi State
· Taylor Smith, freshman, Incarnate Word
· Eric Yang, junior, UC Santa Barbara
· Harris Yett, senior, Charlotte
About Voting for the Buster Posey National Collegiate Catcher of the Year Award:
Ballots will be sent to the national voting panel at the end of May for a vote to determine three finalists. The finalists will be announced June 3, 2019. A final vote among the national committee will occur during the College World Series. All finalists will be brought to Wichita and the winner will be announced at the 22nd Annual Greater Wichita Sports Banquet on June 27, 2019.
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Florida Atlantic University Athletics:
FAU Athletics is comprised of 21 intercollegiate teams involving 450 student-athletes that compete in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track, volleyball, beabch volleyball, cheer and dance. The Owls are a NCAA Division I-A (FBS) institution and compete in Conference USA and the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) (beach volleyball, men’s swimming). The Owls have been playing football since 2001 and are a perfect 3-0 in bowl games, the most recent being a 50-3 victory over Akron in the 2017 Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl. The dance team finished its 2014 season No. 8, nationally. FAU cheer won a national championship in 2016.
About Florida Atlantic University:
Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six county service region in southeast Florida. FAU’s world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is placing special focus on the rapid development of critical areas that form the basis of its strategic plan: Healthy aging, biotech, coastal and marine issues, neuroscience, regenerative medicine, informatics, lifespan and the environment. These areas provide opportunities for faculty and students to build upon FAU’s existing strengths in research and scholarship. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.…
