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June 14, 2024BSB: Tolley Named Second Team All-America
June 14, 2024
Contact: Matt Present (pr******@ap******.edu)
Online: https://appstatesports.com/news/2024/6/14/baseball-tolley-named-second-team-all-america.aspx
BOONE, N.C. – App State outfielder Banks Tolley has been named to the ABCA/Rawlings All-America Second Team, the committee announced Friday.
Tolley becomes the 19th All-America player in program history and the first to earn the honor since Daniel Kassouf’s first-team nod in 2012.
“Banks is a special player. He will go down as one of the Mountaineer all-time greats despite being a part of App State Baseball for just one year,” head coach Kermit Smith said. “He’s impacted our program in many ways, not just with his play on the field but by being a great teammate and embodying our program’s values. This recognition is incredibly well deserved and I couldn’t be happier for him.”
Entering the start of the College World Series on Friday, Tolley was one of just five players in the nation batting at least .379 with at least 26 home runs.
The senior led the Sun Belt in home runs (26), slugging percentage (.781) and OPS (1.265) while ranking second in batting average (.379) and RBIs (77), fourth in on-base (.484), fifth in runs scored (70) and tied for seventh in hits (85) on his way to being named the Sun Belt Newcomer of the Year and a first-team all-conference selection.
Tolley registered one of the best individual seasons in program history. The Madison, Miss., native set the single-season program record with 26 home runs, blowing past the previous record of 17.
Tolley tallied five multi-homer games and registered the second three-homer game in program history, culminating with a walk-off blast in the 10th inning for a win over Georgia Southern on May 16 to secure the Mountaineers a top-six seed in the Sun Belt Tournament.
In Montgomery, Ala., Tolley went 5-for-16 with a double, a homer and six RBIs in four games and was selected to the Sun Belt All-Tournament team.
He also posted 27 multi-hit games and 21 multi-RBI games, hitting safely in 29 of his final 35 contests. Tolley set the App State single-season record for home runs (26), RBIs (77) and total bases (175). He ranks second in single-season history for runs scored (70) and slugging (.781).
| NCAA Div. I All-America First Team | ||||
| Pos. | Player | Cl. | School | State |
| C | Walker Janek | Jr. | Sam Houston State | TX |
| 1B | Blake Burke | Jr. | Tennessee | TN |
| 2B | Travis Bazzana | Jr. | Oregon State | OR |
| 3B | Charlie Condon | So. | Georgia | GA |
| SS | Josh Kuroda-Grauer | Jr. | Rutgers | NJ |
| OF | Jakob Christian | Jr. | San Diego | CA |
| OF | James Tibbs III | Jr. | Florida State | FL |
| OF | Vance Honeycutt | Jr. | North Carolina | NC |
| OF | Braden Montgomery | Jr. | Texas A&M | TX |
| DH | Caleb Cozart | Sr. | UNC Greensboro | NC |
| UT | Jac Caglianone | Jr. | Florida | FL |
| P | Jamie Arnold | So. | Florida State | FL |
| P | Chase Burns | Jr. | Wake Forest | NC |
| P | Hagen Smith | Jr. | Arkansas | AR |
| P | Trey Yesavage | Jr. | East Carolina | NC |
| RP | Evan Aschenbeck | Sr. | Texas A&M | TX |
| RP | Charlie Beilenson | Gr. | Duke | NC |
| NCAA Div. I All-America Second Team | ||||
| Pos. | Player | Cl. | School | State |
| C | Cole Messina | Jr. | South Carolina | SC |
| 1B | Edgar Alvarez | Sr. | Nicholls State | LA |
| 1B | Tyler MacGregor | Gr. | Northeastern | MA |
| 2B | Christian Moore | Jr. | Tennessee | TN |
| 3B | Alec Makarewicz | Gr. | North Carolina State | NC |
| 3B | Tommy White | Jr. | Louisiana State | LA |
| SS | Jon Jon Gazdar | Jr. | Austin Peay State | TN |
| SS | Griff O’Ferrall | Jr. | Virginia | VA |
| OF | Max Belyeu | So. | Texas | TX |
| OF | Drew Burress | Fr. | Georgia Tech | GA |
| OF | Lyle Miller-Green | Gr. | Austin Peay State | TN |
| OF | Jace LaViolette | So. | Texas A&M | TX |
| OF | Myles Smith | Jr. | UC Irvine | CA |
| OF | Banks Tolley | Sr. | App State | NC |
| DH | Ian Farrow | Sr. | Florida Gulf Coast | FL |
| UT | Ethan Bates | Sr. | Louisiana Tech | LA |
| P | Ryan Gallagher | So. | UC Santa Barbara | CA |
| P | Luke Holman | Jr. | Louisiana State | LA |
| P | Ryan Johnson | Jr. | Dallas Baptist | TX |
| P | Michael Ross | Jr. | Samford | AL |
| P | Brett Sears | Sr. | Nebraska | NE |
| RP | Bridger Holmes | Jr. | Oregon State | OR |
| NCAA Div. I All-America Third Team | ||||
| Pos. | Player | Cl. | School | State |
| C | Ryan Campos | Jr. | Arizona State | AZ |
| C | Camden Janik | Jr. | Illinois | IL |
| 1B | Roman Kuntz | Sr. | Morehead State | KY |
| 1B | Nick Kurtz | Jr. | Wake Forest | NC |
| 2B | Emilien Pitre | Jr. | Kentucky | KY |
| 2B | Peyton Stovall | Jr. | Arkansas | AR |
| 2B | Blake Wright | Sr. | Clemson | SC |
| 3B | Gavin Grahovac | Fr. | Texas A&M | TX |
| 3B | Wyatt Henseler | Sr. | Penn | PA |
| SS | Kyle DeBarge | Jr. | Louisiana | LA |
| SS | Jalin Flores | So. | Texas | TX |
| OF | Kendal Ewell | Gr. | Illinois-Chicago | IL |
| OF | Alex Lane | Gr. | Northeastern | MA |
| OF | Garret Pike | Jr. | Toledo | OH |
| OF | Mark Shallenberger | Gr. | Evansville | IN |
| OF | Devin Taylor | So. | Indiana | IN |
| OF | Gavin Turley | So. | Oregon State | OR |
| DH | Slade Wilks | Sr. | Southern Mississippi | MS |
| UT | Carson Benge | So. | Oklahoma State | OK |
| UT | Austin Smith | Jr. | San Diego | CA |
| P | Tyler Bremner | So. | UC Santa Barbara | CA |
| P | AJ Causey | Jr. | Tennessee | TN |
| P | Daniel Eagen | Jr. | Presbyterian | SC |
| P | Brian Holiday | Jr. | Oklahoma State | OK |
| P | Nate Knowles | Jr. | William & Mary | VA |
| P | Aiden May | Jr. | Oregon State | OR |
| P | Khal Stephen | Jr. | Mississippi State | MS |
| P | Payton Tolle | Jr. | TCU | TX |
| P | Bryson Van Sickle | Sr. | Utah | UT |
| RP | Phil Fox | So. | Pitt | PA |
| RP | LP Langevin | Jr. | Louisiana | LA |
| RP | Nick Wissman | Sr. | Dayton | OH |
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