Greensboro, N.C. - Freshman LHP Tyler Herrera and senior 2B Tyler Erickson were named to the 2022 D3baseball.com West All-Region Team, it was announced on Tuesday.
Herrera (Spring, Texas) garnered two major individual awards as he was named both Pitcher of the Year and Rookie of the Year as well as making the First Team as a starting pitcher. Erickson (Houston, Texas) landed on the Second Team as both players earned All-Region honors for the first time in their careers. Players chosen to the D3baseball.com All-Region team are eligible for All-American selection and over 1,000 nominations were submitted. This is the 10th year D3baseball.com has named an All-Region team and this year's All-America team will be the 15th annual.
See the complete 2022 D3baseball.com All-Region teams here: https://www.d3baseball.com/awards/all-region/2022/index
Herrera was sensational this past season as he was named both the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Year and Freshman of the Year and was also a First-Team All-SCAC selection. He finished in the top 10 in the country in ERA (1.59) and went 7-1 with two complete games. Herrera, whose ERA was under 1.00 for most of the season, made 16 appearances and nine starts and in 73.2 innings pitched allowed just 13 earned runs and 61 hits with 25 walks and 59 strikeouts. Herrera was a two-time SCAC Pitcher of the Week recipient, and was named the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Rookie of the Week on March 31. Herrera is the only Centenary player in the division III era (2012-present) to win both the conference Freshman of the Year and Pitcher of the Year awards in the same season. He tied former Centenary star Taylor Henry for the lowest ERA in a season by any Centenary pitcher in the D3 era.
Erickson had another impressive season for the Diamond Gents as he earned First-Team All-SCAC honors at second base after ranking second in the conference in batting average (.388) during the regular season as he earned all-conference honors for the second time in his career. He finished the regular season on a tear with at least one hit in 11 of his last 12 games with seven multi-hit performances and a pair of three-hit games. He batted .381 (.430 OBP/.452 slugging) with 59 hits and 26 RBI in 155 at-bats. In 40 games played, Erickson had 29 runs scored, five doubles, three triples, and two stolen bases. He had 17 multi-hit performances this season including one five-hit game, one four-hit game, and four three-hit efforts.
The Diamond Gents won the 2022 SCAC Tournament title and advanced to the NCAA Division III Championship for just the second time in the division III era (2012-present). The maroon and White finished 27-19 overall and 14-7 in SCAC play and its 27 wins are the third-most in a single season in the D3 era (2012-present). Centenary's memorable season came to an end on May 21 in LaGrange, Ga. when the Diamond Gents fell 14-9 to the Panthers after dropping a pair of games the day before to lose the "best of five" series 3-0.
Centenary claimed the SCAC title on May 8 in Cleburne, Texas with a 10-5 victory over nationally-ranked Trinity. Ten Diamond Gents earned All-SCAC honors this past season and seven were named to the 2022 SCAC Championship all-tournament team. The Diamond Gents' 12-8 win over Trinity on May 7 in the 2022 SCAC Tournament was head coach Mike Diaz's 275th win the program. He won his 250th game on Feb. 6 with a 6-2 home win over Willamette University.
See the complete Diamond Gents' season schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/bsb/2021-22/schedule
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