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Tennessee Sets Program Record With First Team All-American Awards

The awards just continue to come in for the Tennessee baseball team. In late March, the SEC had announced that six Tennessee players landed on the All-SEC teams. Then, on Wednesday, Perfect Game announced that seven Tennessee players landed on its 2022 All-America rosters. And now, on Thursday, the National College Baseball Writer’s Association has also announced seven All-Americans from Tennessee.

Four of the Vols’ seven All-Americans from the NCBWA are first-team selections, which is a new program record for Tennessee.

According to the National College Baseball Writer’s Association, Tennessee’s four First Team All-Americans are RHP Chase Dollander, RHP Chase Burns, 3B Trey Lipscomb, and OF Drew Gilbert. The Vols’ Second Team All-American selections include RHP Drew Beam and LHP Redmond Walsh, while Tennessee flamethrower Ben Joyce lands as a Third Team All-American.

In addition, the NCBWA also named Chase Burns the Freshman Pitcher of the Year.

“Tennessee has now had eight players earn non-freshman All-America honors this season, doubling the previous program record of four set in 2021 and 1994,” according to Tennessee Athletics.

The entire list of All-Americans from the NCBWA can be found here.

There is quite a bit of overlap between the selections from both Perfect Game and the NCBWA, but there are some differences as well. For instance, Beam, Burns, Dollander, Gilbert, and Lipscomb all have a spot on both publications. Meanwhile, only Perfect Game has Tennessee 2B Jorel Ortega listed, while only the NCBWA has Walsh and Joyce listed.

Chase Dollander
Tennessee pitcher Chase Dollander. Photo by Ric Butler/Rocky Top Insider.
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The All-American postseason award selection list from Tennessee is as follows:

Head Coach Tony Vitello

  • SEC Coach of the Year
  • National Coach of the Year by Perfect Game

RHP Chase Dollander

  • SEC Pitcher of the Year
  • First Team All-SEC
  • First Team All-American by Perfect Game
  • First Team All-American by the NCBWA

RHP Drew Beam

  • SEC Freshman of the Year
  • Second Team All-SEC
  • Freshman All-SEC Team
  • First Team Freshman All-American by Perfect Game
  • Second Team All-American by the NCBWA

RHP Chase Burns

  • Second Team All-SEC
  • Freshman All-SEC Team
  • First Team Freshman All-American by Perfect Game
  • First Team All-American by the NCBWA
  • NCBWA Freshman Pitcher of the Year

LHP Redmond Walsh

  • Second Team All-American by the NCBWA

RHP Ben Joyce

  • Third Team All-American by the NCBWA

1B Blake Burke

  • Freshman All-SEC Team
  • Second Team Freshman All-American by Perfect Game

2B Jorel Ortega

  • Second Team All-American by Perfect Game

3B Trey Lipscomb

  • First Team All-SEC
  • Third Team All-American by Perfect Game
  • First Team All-American by the NCBWA

OF Drew Gilbert

  • First Team All-SEC
  • SEC All-Defensive Team
  • Second Team All-American by Perfect Game
  • First Team All-American by the NCBWA

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