Southern Miss slugger Matt Wallner (USM Athletics)

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2017 Freshman All-America Team

SEE ALSO: A profile of Freshman of the Year Matt Wallner

Southern Mississippi slugger Matt Wallner, the D1Baseball Freshman of the Year, headlines the 2017 D1Baseball Freshman All-America teams, released Thursday.

Wallner led all freshmen with 19 home runs and a 1.118 OPS this spring, helping Southern Miss win 50 games and host a regional. The 6-foot-5, 220-pound behemoth also made nine appearances off the mound, going 2-0, 1.84 with 15 strikeouts in 14.2 innings. Earlier this spring, D1Baseball’s Mark Etheridge detailed Wallner’s journey from overlooked Minnesota prep player to University of North Dakota signee to larger-than-life superstar at Southern Miss, where Wallner landed after North Dakota cut its baseball program.

North Carolina leads all teams with three Freshman All-Americans, all of them on the first team: DH Ashton McGee, starting pitcher Luca Dalatri and closer Josh Hiatt. LSU is the only other team to land multiple players on the first team (outfielder Zach Watson and righthander Eric Walker). Texas Tech and Missouri were the only other teams to produce more than one Freshman All-American.

The SEC and ACC each placed four players on the first team, but the SEC produced the most Freshman All-Americans overall with nine, while the ACC had seven. The Pac-12 was next with four, followed by the Big 12 and American with three apiece.

Freshman All-America First Team

Pos. Player, School AVG/OBP/SLG AB R H HR RBI SB C Shea Langeliers, Baylor .313/.388/.540 211 43 66 10 38 1 1B Andrew Vaughn, California .349/.414/.555 218 36 76 12 50 1 2B Braden Shewmake, Texas A&M .328/.374/.529 274 47 90 11 69 11 3B Josh Jung, Texas Tech .306/.395/.453 245 55 75 6 43 2 SS Logan Davidson, Clemson .286/.388/.473 241 56 69 12 41 10 OF Carlos Cortes, South Carolina .286/.368/.565 168 27 48 12 41 5 OF Matt Wallner, Southern Miss .336/.463/.655 235 56 79 19 63 4 OF Zach Watson, LSU .318/.378/.512 217 41 69 9 37 11 DH Ashton McGee, North Carolina .327/.417/.484 223 45 73 7 46 1 UT Kevin Milam, Saint Mary's .313/.397/.547 214 45 67 12 55 0

Pos. Player, School W-L ERA G SV IP H BB SO SP Luca Dalatri, North Carolina 7-3 3.34 15 0 97 90 19 85 SP Shane McClanahan, South Florida 4-2 3.2 15 0 76 48 36 104 SP Sean Mooney, St. John's 8-2 1.71 16 0 100 70 16 88 SP Eric Walker, LSU 8-2 3.48 17 0 95.2 83 23 78 RP Josh Hiatt, North Carolina 4-2 1.9 32 13 52 31 20 64 RP Jake Mulholland, Oregon State 7-1 1.2 28 6 52.1 34 12 44 UT Kevin Milam, Saint Mary's 3-1 2.27 22 9 39.2 27 11 31

Freshman All-America Second Team

Pos. Player, School AVG/OBP/SLG AB R H HR RBI SB C James Free II, Pacific .343/.407/.652 181 32 62 14 54 1 1B Drew Mendoza, Florida State .270/.400/.534 148 33 40 10 33 3 2B Will Wilson, NC State .300/.377/.504 240 41 72 8 48 2 3B Nick Quintana, Arizona .293/.394/.471 208 42 61 6 38 2 SS Cam Shepherd, Georgia .307/.354/.452 241 29 74 5 28 5 OF Dominic Fletcher, Arkansas .291/.356/.495 220 44 64 12 37 1 OF Grant Little, Texas Tech .335/.405/.476 206 52 69 2 34 6 OF Kameron Misner, Missouri .282/.360/.446 213 39 60 7 34 17 DH Spencer Brickhouse, East Carolina .310/.385/.513 197 36 61 10 28 2 UT Rylan Thomas, UCF .303/.359/.530 234 46 71 14 53 9