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Baseball's Shoppach Named to ABCA All-America Team

Catcher Kelly Shoppach has been named first team all-America by four organizations to date.

Catcher Kelly Shoppach has been named first team all-America by four organizations to date.

June 12, 2001

WACO, Texas - Baylor catcher Kelly Shoppach has been named to the ABCA/Rawlings All-America first team, as voted on by the American Baseball Coaches Association and released by the organization during the College World Series.

Shoppach, a junior from Fort Worth, Texas, led the team in hitting all season and finished the year with a .397 average. Behind the plate, the Big 12 Player of the Year recorded a .998 fielding percentage and committed just one error in 406 chances. Shoppach and Nebraska outfielder John Cole were the only Big 12 players named to the team.

Chosen by the Boston Red Sox with the 48th pick in the second round of the 2001 Major League Baseball draft, Shoppach has already been named to the all-America teams released by Baseball Weekly, Louisville Slugger/Collegiate Baseball and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. He is also one of three finalists for the Johnny Bench Award, given to the nation's top collegiate catcher.

2001 ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Division I All-America Team

RHP Dewon Brazelton, Middle Tennessee St. RHP Aaron Heilman, Notre Dame RHP Mark Prior, Southern Cal RHP Kirk Saarloos, Cal State Fullerton Relief Lee Gronkiewicz, South Carolina UT Cory Sullivan, Wake Forest C Kelly Shoppach, Baylor 1B John VanBenschoten, Kent State 2B Chris O'Riordan, Stanford SS Chris Burke, Tennessee 3B Jake Gautreau, Tulane DH Scott Henley, Georgia Southern OF Ryan Brunner, Northern Iowa OF John Cole, Nebraska OF John Ford-Griffin, Florida State OF Jason Law, Monmouth