Jim Negrych Named Baseball America First Team All-America
6/15/2006 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
June 15, 2006
PITTSBURGH - Named a Collegiate Baseball/Louisville Slugger Third-Team All-American earlier this month, Pitt second baseman Jim Negrych added to his list of accomplishments with a second consecutive First Team All-America selection by Baseball America.
Negrych (Buffalo, N.Y./St. Francis), a sixth-round draft pick of Major League Baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates last week, is the only repeat First Team All-American after hitting .396 in 2006 with 41 runs scored, 72 hits, 11 home runs and 60 RBIs.
He also improved on his already impressive on-base percentage, reaching base in 51.5 percent of his at-bats. Negrych is among the Panthers' all-time leaders in nearly every statistical category and is one of just five Pitt student-athletes to collect 200 hits in a career and one of just two to do so in three seasons.
The Panthers have had only two First Team All-Americans in the history of the program - Negrych (2005-06) and P.J. Hiser (2004, Collegiate Baseball). Negrych's selection marks the third consecutive season that Pitt has had a First Team All-American under head coach Joe Jordano.