FORT WORTH, Texas – On Tuesday evening, three New Orleans Privateers baseball student-athletes were named to the Preseason Watch List for the Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award.
Pearce Howard,
Luther Woullard, and
Gaige Howard are among 36 candidates.
For Gaige and Pearce this will be their second go-around with the Bragan Award. Pearce was nominated in the preseason leading up to 2019 while Gaige was added on to the midseason watch list after a season that saw him hit .330. Pearce recently hit his 13
th career home run against Prairie View.
Woullard was the team's RBI leader in '19 and had a four-RBI day in the Privateers' victory against Prairie View A&M. This season, Luther is 5-for-16 (.313) at the plate. Last year, he hit .288 with 13 doubles and three home runs.
The Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award (BBCSA) presented by SR Bats announced today the players on its watch list for the 2020 college baseball season. The award, created by the Bobby Bragan Youth Foundation, was open to nominations from all Division I baseball programs in the country. The BBCSA is based on performance at the plate, academics and personal integrity.
The BBCSA originally started out in 2017 as an honor going to the top college hitter in Texas. In 2019, the BBCSA expanded becoming a regional award covering Division I programs in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Oklahoma.
The winner of the BBCSA will be announced in June and honored at a gala in the fall at the Fort Worth Club. Texas Tech's Hunter Hargrove won the initial BBCSA in 2017. Dallas Baptist's Devlin Granberg took home the honor in 2018 with Texas Tech's Josh Jung winning the award in 2019.
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