University of Houston Athletics
Lantrip Named to Golden Spikes Award Watch List
2/16/2016 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
DURHAM, N.C. - Houston Baseball junior Andrew Lantrip continues to build on his preseason accolades list after being named to the USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award Watch List, which honors the nation's top amateur player, announced Tuesday by the organization.
Houston Baseball will open the 2016 season this weekend with a three-game series vs. Villanova at Darryl & Lori Schroeder Park. The series is set to begin at 6:30 p.m. Friday, continue at 6:30 p.m. Saturday and wrap at 1 p.m. Sunday.
FULL LIST OF GOLDEN SPIKES AWARD WATCH LIST
Lantrip's Golden Spikes Watch List honor accompanies four preseason All-America nods, led by a First Team selection by NCBWA.
The right-hander is one of only two American Athletic Conference players named to this list and just one of three playing for a school in the state of Texas. He joins Anthony Kay of UConn, Nick Banks of Texas A&M and Mitchell Traver of TCU on the list.
Lantrip is fresh off being named to the American Athletic Conference Preseason Team and is coming off a solid 2015 campaign that saw him become the first Cougar named an All-American since 2006. He earned All-Region and All-Conference honors, while leading a pitching staff that ranked first in the conference with a 2.89 ERA under the direction of pitching coach Frank Anderson.
He guided the Cougars to their first conference regular-season title since 2008 in 2015 when Houston finished 43-20 overall and 16-8 in league action. Lantrip went 9-3 with a 2.62 ERA in 16 starts as the Cougars' Friday starter. He tossed a league-leading 113.1 innings and totaled 115 strikeouts - a league high.
The Livingston, Texas native is 15-3 in his two seasons and totaled 115 strikeouts last season for the seventh-best single-season mark at Houston all-time.
Sponsored by Major League Baseball, and presented in partnership with the Rod Dedeaux Foundation, the 39th Golden Spikes Award will be presented on June 30 in Los Angeles.
The preseason watch list features 50 of the nation's top amateur players, from high school and college baseball. The Golden Spikes Award Advisory Board will maintain a rolling list of athletes, allowing players to play themselves into consideration for the award throughout the season.
The anticipated timeline for the 2016 Golden Spikes Award announcements:
- Tuesday, February 16: 2016 USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award preseason watch list
- Monday, April 11: 2016 Golden Spikes Award fan nominations begin
- Sunday, April 17: 2016 Golden Spikes Award fan nominations end
- Wednesday, April 20: 2016 USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award midseason watch list
- Wednesday, June 1: 2016 USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award semifinalists, voting begins
- Wednesday, June 8: 2016 USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award semifinalists, voting ends
- Monday, June 13: 2016 USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award finalists, voting begins
- Saturday, June 25: 2016 USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award finalists, voting ends
- Thursday, June 30: 2016 USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award trophy presentation
Andrew Lantrip (IN 2015)
Named to the ABCA/Rawlings All-Region and American Athletic Conference Second Team...Led conference in innings pitched at 113.1 and in strikeouts with 115...115 strikeouts ranks seventh all-time in a single-season at UH...Went 9-3 with a 2.62 ERA in 16 starts...Tossed three complete games and one combined shutout...Had six games with at least 10 strikeouts...Fanned a career-high 13 in 8.1 inning gem at USF (April 24)...Lasted at least 5.0 innings in 15 of his 16 starts...Allowed just one run through his first 19.2 innings pitched on the year...Won his first and last three starts...Fanned 12 in 7.2 innings vs. Buffalo (March 13)...Allowed a combined two runs in back-to-back starts vs. Cincinnati (April 18) and at USF (April 24), while striking out 23...Finished the year with double-digit strikeouts in five of his last seven starts...Threw complete games vs. HBU in the NCAA Regional (May 29), at Memphis (April 2) and vs. LSU (March 6)...Is now 15-3 in his two-year career... Helped Cougars to an American Athletic Conference title, their second consecutive 40-win season and to a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament... Was part of a pitching staff that ranked first in the conference with a 2.89 ERA.
Lantrip and Houston were selected as the 2016 American Athletic Conference favorite and have been ranked among the nation's Top 25 in all six preseason polls, coming in at No. 12 - its highest - by Baseball America.
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2016 SCHEDULE QUICK HITS
OUR CITY
• 32 home games; 38 in the city of Houston
• First 12 games of the season will be played in the city of Houston
• 21 of the first 25 games will be played in the city of Houston
• 18 of the first 25 games will be played at Darryl & Lori Schroeder Park
OPENING WEEKEND
• Houston will host Opening Weekend for the 11th consecutive season
• Cougars are 14-1 all-time during Opening Weekend under Todd Whitting
COLLEGE CLASSIC
• Houston to make 16th straight appearance in Houston College Classic at Minute Maid Park
• Cougars to face Texas Tech, Arkansas and TCU
• Cougars own a 20-25 all-time record in tournament; has earned seven wins over Top 30 teams
FIRST-TIME OPPONENTS
• Houston has three first-time opponents on the schedule: Villanova, Grand Canyon, George Washington
RICE & TEXAS IN SUGAR LAND, TEXAS AT CONSTELLATION FIELD
• Houston will meet both Texas (April 12) and Rice (May 17) for non-conference, midweek games at Sugar Land's Constellation Field.
NCAA TOURNAMENT COMPETITION
• 20 games this season will be played against an NCAA-tournament team from 2015
• Arkansas, TCU, Texas Southern, Rice, Texas A&M, East Carolina, Texas, USF, Tulane
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