Angelo State’s Matt Waller topped the Lone Star Conference Baseball All-Academic Team, as the league’s annual postseason awards were announced prior to the start of this week’s LSC Baseball Championship.

      Waller was tabbed Academic Player of the Year to lead the All-Academic team. 

      The senior catcher from Arlington, Texas, is hitting .350 with 49 hits and 38 RBIs.  He has 13 doubles, three triples and four home runs with 28 runs scored for the Rams.  Waller has with 226 putouts with a .984 fielding percentage.

      Waller was joined by Eastern New Mexico’s Keenan Dodd and Andrew Stubbs; Texas A&M-Kingsville’s Hunter Perkins, Hunter Lehman and Preston Plovanich; UT Permian Basin’s Doug Clapperton; Cameron’s Tyler Abrego; and West Texas A&M’s Justin McAllister.

      McAllister was a repeat selection.

      To be eligible for LSC academic honors, student-athletes must carry at least a 3.30 grade point average and have reached sophomore status both athletically and academically. The Academic Player of Year award and All-Academic Team are selected from the list of academically qualified players, with the league's sports information directors voting on the basis of both academic and athletic achievement.
 
2017 LSC BASEBALL ALL-ACADEMIC AWARDS

Player	Team	Yr.	Pos.	Major	Hometown
Matt Waller	Angelo State	Sr.	C	Exercise Science	Arlington, Texas
Keenan Dodd	Eastern New Mexico	Jr.	RHP	Biochemistry/Chemistry	Albuquerque, NM
Hunter Perkins	Texas A&M-Kingsville	Sr.	UT	Civil Engineering	Victoria, Texas
Hunter Lehman	Texas A&M-Kingsville	Sr.	RHP/C	Range and Wildlife Mgmt.	Kyle, Texas
Doug Clapperton	UT Permian Basin	Sr.	OF	Geology	Calgary, Alberta
Tyler Abrego	Cameron	Sr.	RHP	Psychology	Phoenix, Ariz.
Justin McAllister	West Texas A&M	Sr.	LHP	Marketing	Gilbert, Ariz.
Andrew Stubbs	Eastern New Mexico	So.	1B	Business Administration	Albuquerque, NM
Preston Plovanich	Texas A&M-Kingsville	So.	LHP	Marketing	Santa Fe, Texas

LSC Baseball Academic Player of the Year:  Matt Waller, Angelo State