University of Tennessee Athletics
Davis named BA Freshman All-America
June 30, 2008 | Baseball
Tennessee outfielder Kentrail Davis received yet another postseason honor Monday when he was named to Baseball America???s 2008 Freshman All-America Team. It is the third first-team Freshman All-America award garnered by the Theodore, Ala., native, who is currently starring as a member of the USA Baseball National Team.
Davis also appeared on this year???s Louisville Slugger and NCBWA Freshman All-America teams. He joins Kurt Keene (1997), Javi Herrera (2001) and teammate Jeff Lockwood (2007) as the only Vols to be named Freshman All-Americas by three separate organizations.
As Tennessee???s starting centerfielder this past season, Davis led the Vols in nine different offensive statistical categories, and he became just the ninth Vol ever to win the team Triple Crown (leading the team in batting average [.330], home runs [13] and RBI [44]). He also led the team with four multi-homer games and 21 multi-hit games while sharing the team lead with 12 multi-RBI games.
Impressively, the Southeastern Conference produced more than one-third (six of 15) of this year???s Baseball America first-team honorees. And this marks the second straight year the SEC has produced at least five first-teamers.
