Virginia Tech baseball players Tim Smalling and Jesse Hahn have been named to the national award watch lists for their respective positions.

 

The College Baseball Foundation has included Smalling, a redshirt junior shortstop, on the Brooks Wallace Award Watch List; and Hahn, a junior pitcher, on the Pitcher of the Year Watch List.

 

The winners of each honor will be announced on July 2 in Lubbock, Texas, at the College Baseball Awards Show, which is part of a nearly weeklong schedule of festivities sponsored by the College Baseball Foundation. The events also include the induction ceremony for the National College Baseball Hall of Fame.

 

The Wallace Award, sponsored by Mizuno, recognizes the nation’s top shortstop. Smalling, a Raleigh, N.C., native, ranks among the ACC’s top hitters with a .436 batting average over his first 18 games played. He’s also hit seven doubles, one triple and three home runs, while tallying 23 runs scored and 23 RBIs.

 

Hahn, a Groton, Conn., product, ranks among the ACC’s top pitchers with a 4-1 record and a 1.34 ERA in five games started. He has struck out 29 batters and walked just six in 33.2 innings of work.