Baseball: Jenkins on Wallace Watch List
May 02, 2007 03:12 PM | General
May 2, 2007
LUBBOCK, Texas – West Virginia University left fielder Justin Jenkins is one of 112 collegiate baseball players to be awarded a spot on the Wallace Award watch list as announced by the College Baseball Foundation on May 2.
The Wallace Award is an annual honor given to the nation’s top collegiate baseball player. The 2007 award banquet will be televised nationally by Fox Sports Network.
Jenkins, a senior hailing from Ridgeley, W.Va., has been a dependable contributor to the Mountaineer team since he arrived in Morgantown in 2005. Jenkins owns the 10th longest hitting streak in NCAA baseball history (38 games). He has also shattered six school records in his three years suiting up in the Old Gold and Blue.
The left fielder’s .418 batting average leads the Mountaineers and is good for second overall in the BIG EAST. Jenkins leads the conference with 21 doubles and 122 total bases. He also ranks sixth in NCAA baseball in doubles per game while his performance at the plate gives him the 22nd best batting average in the country.
Jenkins was named preseason second team All-America by Collegiate Baseball in 2007. He has also received other honors including preseason all-BIG EAST in 2007, first team all-BIG EAST in 2006 and ABCA all-East Region in 2006.
Joining the senior are fellow BIG EAST players Walter Diaz (South Florida), Todd Frazier (Rutgers), Logan Johnson (Louisville) and Boomer Whiting (Louisville).
