National honors starting to roll in.
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Cota Named NCBWA All-America
Three Seahawks earn ABCA All-Region honors
WILMINGTON, N.C. – UNCW standout reliever Clark Cota has been honored by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association as a third-team All-America selection after anchoring one of the nation's top bullpens.
Mason Berne and Ryan Jeffers were named Rawlings First-team All-Region by the American Baseball Coaches Association on Wednesday after leading UNCW to its fifth Colonial Athletic Association championship and the NCAA Regionals for a ninth time. Cota was named to the second team.
All three were selected in last week's Major League Baseball Draft with Jeffers going in the second round to Minnesota, Cota in the 10th to Oakland and Berne was taken in the 33rd round by Atlanta. The trio was a part of a program-record tying six-member draft class.
Berne was a first-team All-CAA honoree after hitting a career and team-high .343 with 14 doubles and 12 home runs. He collected 82 hits to lead the Seahawks and drove in 56 runs.
Jeffers, who like Berne and Cota was a First-team All-CAA selection, hit .315 and led the lineup with 22 doubles, 16 home runs and 59 runs batted in. Jeffers also drew 51 walks and posted a .460 on base average.
Cota tied a program record with 13 saves his junior season. The righthander compiled a 4-0 mark and a 2.04 earned run average while limiting opponents to a meager .145 batting average.