West Texas A&M’s Tag Baxter 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.
 
      Baxter was tabbed Academic Player of the Year to lead a group of nine recognized on the All-Academic Team. 
 
      Baxter was joined by teammate Zach Dixon; Angelo State’s Michael Urquidi; Cameron’s Gaige Vines; Eastern New Mexico’s Enrique Perez and Ethan Coombes; and Texas A&M-Kingsville’s Preston Plovanich, Pablo Hernandez, and Alex Gonzalez.
 
      Plovanich is a three-time honoree, while Vines, Perez, and Hernandez are repeat selections.
 
      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.
 
2019 LSC BASEBALL ALL-ACADEMIC AWARDS

Player	Team	Yr.	Pos.	Major	Hometown
Michael Urquidi	Angelo State	Sr.	OF	Nurse Educator	El Paso, Texas
Gaige Vines	Cameron	Jr.	P	Sports and Exercise Science	Trophy Club, Texas
Enrique Perez	Eastern New Mexico	Grad	P	Business Administration	Albuquerque, New Mexico
Ethan Coombes	Eastern New Mexico	So.	P	Business Administration	Roswell, New Mexico
Pablo Hernandez	Texas A&M-Kingsville	Sr.	1B	Business Administration	Havana, Cuba
Preston Plovanich	Texas A&M-Kingsville	Sr.	LHP	Business Administration	Santa Fe, Texas
Alex Gonzalez	Texas A&M-Kingsville	Sr.	SS	Business Administration	Corpus Christi, Texas
Tag Baxter	West Texas A&M	Sr.	UT	Civil Engineering	Heber City, Utah
Zach Dixon	West Texas A&M	Jr.	P	Biology	Las Vegas, Nevada

 
LSC Baseball Academic Player of the Year:  Tag Baxter, West Texas A&M