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Price, Roth & Walker Named To NCBWA Preseason All-America Team
Dec. 14, 2011
2012 NCBWA Preseason All-America Team Columbia, S.C. - South Carolina senior left-handed pitcher Michael Roth, junior right-handed pitcher Matt Price and junior first baseman Christian Walker all picked up 2012 Preseason All-America accolades as announced by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association on Wednesday afternoon. The NCBWA tabbed Price and Roth with first-team honors with Walker receiving second-team honors. South Carolina opens the 2012 season on Friday, Feb. 17 hosting a three-game series with VMI at Carolina Stadium. Roth, a consensus All-American and CollegeBaseballInsider.com's National Player of the Year in 2011, went 14-3 last year while posting a 1.06 ERA in 145.0 innings of work. In his first full year as a starting pitcher, Roth struck out 112 batters and walked 41 to help lead the Gamecocks to their second-consecutive NCAA Division I national championship. Roth also tallied a 1.17 ERA in Southeastern Conference play, the lowest of any starter in the league. His 14 wins tied for fifth most by a Gamecock in a single season. A first-team All-SEC selection, Roth was named to the College World Series All-Tournament Team and was a first-team CoSIDA Academic All-American as well. Price was also a consensus All-American in 2011 and a finalist for the 2011 NCBWA Stopper of the Year award. He earned first-team All-SEC honors and was on the College World Series All-Tournament Team. One of the nation's top closers in 2011, Price went 7-3 with a 1.83 ERA along with 20 saves in 59.0 innings pitched. A first-team All-SEC selection, opponents hit just .213 against him as he compiled 75 strikeouts. Price is looking to begin the 2012 season in the weekend rotation. Walker earned third-team All-America honors last year from Baseball America. He was the team's leading hitter in the 2011 season with a .358 average (97-for-271) along with 21 doubles, a triple, 10 homers and 62 RBI. A second-team All-SEC selection, Walker would go on to earn College World Series All-Tournament Team honors after playing the entire CWS Championship Series with a broken hamate bone in his left wrist.
Matt Price BIO 2010 - Freshman All-America selection by Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball ... Earned second-team All-SEC honors and named to SEC All-Freshman Team ... Picked up win 2-1 victory over UCLA that clinched the national championship; hurled 2.2 scoreless innings of relief with just one hit and one walk allowed and struck out three batters (6/29) ... Earned victory in 4-3 win over Clemson at College World Series that sent Gamecocks to national championship series (6/26); allowed one run on three hits in 2.1 innings with three strikeouts ... Three no-hit innings of relief in 3-2 win over Oklahoma at the College World Series with five strikeouts (6/24) ... Hurled 1.2 scoreless innings of relief with four strikeouts in 11-4 win over Arizona State at College World Series (6/22) ... One perfect inning of relief to earn a save with a strikeout in 10-9 win over Coastal Carolina in NCAA Super Regional (6/13) ... Two scoreless innings of relief to earn a save in 4-3 win over Coastal Carolina in NCAA Super Regional (6/12) ... Earned a save with 1.2 scoreless innings of relief and two strikeouts in 9-4 win over The Citadel in NCAA Regional (6/5) ... Quality outing out of bullpen despite a loss in 3-1 defeat vs. Auburn at SEC Tournament (5/27); allowed two runs, one earned, on three hits in 3.1 innings with five strikeouts ... Closed out 11-6 win vs. Florida with 2.2 innings of work allowing one run on three hits with three strikeouts and two walks (5/22) ... Earned a save with a perfect 1.1 innings of relief in 5-3 win at Arkansas (5/16) ... Earned a save with 1.1 scoreless innings of relief with a pair of strikeouts in 3-2 win at Arkansas (5/14) ... Picked up a save with 1.1 scoreless innings of relief with three strikeouts in 13-9 win at Kentucky (5/7) ... Key relief performance in 20-15 win over Alabama (5/2); allowed three runs on four hits with four strikeouts in 2.2 innings of work ... 1.1 perfect innings of relief with three strikeouts in 5-4 loss to Ole Miss (4/18) ... 0.1 scoreless inning of relief with a walk and a strikeout in 9-5 win over Ole Miss (4/18) ... Pitched two perfect innings of relief with three strikeouts in 2-0 win at Vanderbilt (4/11) ... Pitched 0.2 perfect innings of relief with a strikeout in 3-2 win at Vanderbilt (4/9) ... Strong relief performance to earn win vs. Mississippi State (4/4); pitched five scoreless innings and allowed just two hits while striking out six batters in 14-2 victory (4/4) ... Hurled a perfect inning of relief and struck out the side in 10-1 win over The Citadel (3/30) ... Pitched 1.1 perfect innings of relief with a pair of strikeouts in 2-0 win at Auburn to earn save (3/27) ... Pitched two perfect innings of relief with three strikeouts and earned first career save in 4-0 win vs. Tennessee (3/21) ... One scoreless inning of relief with two strikeouts in 8-4 win over Brown (3/13) ... Picked up second win of the season with four scoreless innings of relief with just one hit and one walk allowed and a career-high eight strikeouts in 7-3 victory over Valparaiso (3/10) ... Earned win with one inning of relief with two strikeouts and one run allowed on two hits in 7-5 victory over Clemson (3/6) ... Pitched one scoreless inning of relief in 15-0 win over Presbyterian (3/3) .... Hurled one inning of relief and allowed one run on two hits with two strikeouts and a walk in 10-3 win over Duquesne (2/19). 2009 - Missed most of the 2009 season due to fractured right wrist he sustained at The Citadel (3/31) ... Career-high seven scoreless innings of relief with four strikeouts in 2-1 win over Georgia Southern (3/25) ... Two scoreless innings of relief with three strikeouts in 6-0 win vs. Davidson (3/17) ... Three scoreless innings of relief allowing just three hits in 13-3 win vs. Old Dominion (3/10) ... Earned first career win after 2.2 innings of relief, allowed just one run on two hits with three strikeouts in 7-5 victory over Long Beach State (3/7) ... Pitched one inning of scoreless relief with one strikeout in 6-0 win vs. Duquesne (2/23).
Michael Roth BIO 2010 - Quality start in 2-1 victory over UCLA in national championship series victory (6/29); allowed one run on six hits with three strikeouts and two walks ... In first start of the season, pitched a complete game and limited Clemson to just one run on three hits with four strikeouts and a walk in 5-1 victory at College World Series (6/25) ... Picked up first win of the season and retired all 10 batters he faced with 3.1 perfect innings and career-high five strikeouts in 9-5 win over Bucknell in NCAA Regional (6/4) ... Retired lone batter he faced in 3-1 loss to Auburn at SEC Tournament (5/27) ... 1.1 scoreless innings of relief with two strikeouts in 3-0 loss to Ole Miss at SEC Tournament (5/26) ... One scoreless inning of relief with a strikeout in 5-2 loss to Florida (5/21) ... One perfect inning of relief with a strikeout in 3-2 loss to Florida (5/21) ... Struck out lone batter he faced in 5-3 win at Arkansas (5/16) ... Struck out lone batter he faced in 3-2 win at Arkansas (5/14) ... One scoreless inning of relief in 13-9 win at Kentucky (5/7) ... Retired lone batter he faced in 20-15 win over Alabama (5/2) ... Retired lone batter he faced in 9-7 win over Alabama (4/30) ... Struck out the lone batter he faced in 4-2 win over USC Upstate (4/20) ... 0.2 scoreless inning of relief in 2-0 win at Vanderbilt (4/11) ... 0.1 scoreless inning of relief in 3-2 win at Vanderbilt (4/9) ... Picked up save with a perfect 1.2 innings of relief in 6-3 win over College of Charleston (4/7) ... Made first start at designated hitter and hit a solo home run in 10-1 win over The Citadel (3/30) ... 0.2 scoreless innings of relief in 2-0 win at Auburn (3/27) ... 0.1 scoreless inning of relief in 8-5 win at Georgia Southern (3/23) ... 0.1 inning of relief with a strikeout in 4-0 win over Tennessee (3/21) ... 0.2 perfect innings of relief with a pair of strikeouts in 4-2 win over Tennessee (3/19) ... Pitched one scoreless inning of relief with a pair of strikeouts in 8-3 win over Davidson (3/17) ... Tallied save recording final out in 10-7 win over Brown (3/13) ... Earned first career save recording final out in 7-5 win vs. Clemson (3/6) ... Pitched 1.2 innings of relief allowing one run on hit in 4-3 loss at East Carolina (2/27) ... 0.2 scoreless innings of relief in 6-2 win at East Carolina (2/26) ... 0.1 perfect inning of relief in 5-3 win over Duquesne (2/21), also scored a run in one plate appearance. ... 0.1 perfect inning of relief with a strikeout in 13-3 win over Duquesne (2/20). 2009 - Pitched two innings of relief at SEC Tournament vs. Vanderbilt; allowed one run, unearned, on two hits with a strikeout and a walk ... Four scoreless innings of relief with just two hits allowed in 9-5 loss to Florida (4/26) ... 0.2 scoreless innings of relief with one strikeout in 12-2 loss to Clemson (4/22) ... 1.1 scoreless innings of relief in 14-6 win at USC Upstate (4/21) ... 1.1 scoreless innings of relief with two strikeouts in 6-4 loss to Auburn (4/18) ... Second career start vs. College of Charleston (4/14), allowed six runs, five earned, on nine hits in 4.1 innings of work ... 3.0 innings of relief, allowed just one run, unearned, on one hit with three strikeouts and four walks in 7-6 win over Clemson (4/7) ... 2.2 scoreless innings of relief with three strikeouts in 6-4 loss to Arkansas (4/3) ... One scoreless inning of relief with a strikeout in 10-0 win vs. Furman (4/1) ... First career start vs. Georgia Southern, allowed one run on three hits in two innings with three strikeouts (3/25 ) ... One perfect inning of relief with two strikeouts in 11-3 loss to LSU (3/22) ... Three no-hit innings of relief to pick up first win in 6-5 victory over Presbyterian (3/9) ... Pinch-hit RBI double in 15-8 win over Long Beach State (3/6) ... First career appearance on the mound vs. Charleston Southern (3/4), pitched one inning and allowed one run on two hits ... Pinch-hit single and a RBI in first career at-bat in 13-0 win over Duquesne (2/21).
Christian Walker BIO 2010 - Freshman All-America selection by Baseball America ... Named to College World Series All-Tournament Team ... Named to SEC All-Freshman Team ... 2-for-4 in 2-1 win over UCLA in national championship series victory at College World Series (6/29) ... 2-for-5 with a run scored in 2-1 win over UCLA in national championship series at the College World Series (6/28) ... 2-for-4 with a home run and two RBI in 4-3 win over Clemson at the College World Series (6/26) ... 3-for-5 with a RBI in 3-2 win over Oklahoma at the College World Series (6/24) ... 2-for-3 with a RBI and a run scored in 4-3 loss to Oklahoma at the College World Series (6/20) ... Game-winning three-run homer in 10-9 win over Coastal Carolina in NCAA Super Regional (6/13) ... 2-for-5 with a two-run single in 4-3 win over Coastal Carolina in NCAA Super Regional (6/12) ... 3-for-5 with a RBI and a run scored in 10-2 win over Virginia Tech in NCAA Regional (6/6) ... 2-for-4 in 3-0 loss to Ole Miss at SEC Tournament (5/26) ... 2-for-5 with a triple in 11-6 win over Florida (5/22) ... 2-for-3 with a solo homer in 10-2 win over Charleston Southern (5/12) ... 4-for-6 with three runs scored, four RBI and tied school single-game record with three doubles in 13-9 win at Kentucky (5/7) ... 3-for-4 with a homer, two runs scored and three RBI in 14-6 win over Winthrop (5/5) ... 2-for-5 with a double and three runs scored in 20-15 win over Alabama (5/2) ... Hit a two-run homer and was 3-for-4 with two runs scored in 6-4 loss to Alabama (5/1) ... 3-for-5 with a RBI and two runs scored in 8-7 win over Georgia (4/25) ... Hit a grand slam homer in 9-5 win over Ole Miss (4/17) ... Game-winning two-run triple in the seventh inning of the 10-7 win over Tennessee (3/20) ... 1-for-4 with two RBI in 15-0 win at Furman (3/16) ... 2-for-2 after coming off the bench in 6-5 win over Brown (3/14) ... 2-for-5 with a double, run scored and two RBI in 15-0 win over Presbyterian (3/3) .... 8-for-14 (.571) in Duquesne series with a double, two homers, five runs scored and seven RBI ... 2-for-4 with a run scored and a RBI in 5-3 win over Duquesne (2/21) ... 4-for-5 with a double, home run, three runs scored and five RBI in 13-3 win over Duquesne (2/20) ... 2-for-5 with a homer in 10-3 win over Duquesne (2/19).
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