With just 24 days remaining before the start of the 2018 college baseball season, the preseason recognitions continue to roll in for Stetson junior pitcher Logan Gilbert.
 
The hard-throwing right-handed pitcher was previously named to the Collegiate Baseball preseason All-America second team in December and to the Perfect Game preseason All-America team earlier this month. He can now add preseason All-America honors from D1Baseball.com as a member of the first team.
 
The ASUN will announce its preseason awards and All-Conference team on Wednesday. Those awards, as well as the preseason poll, are selected by vote of the league's head coaches.
 
A native of Apopka, Fla., Gilbert was named the ASUN Pitcher of the year in 2017 after posting a perfect 10-0 record with a 2.02 ERA, is one of three Stetson hurlers to return this year after posting more than 100 strikeouts last spring. Senior Brooks Wilson (127) and junior Jack Perkins (108) joined with Gilbert (107) in making Stetson just the eighth NCAA team to have three pitchers record 100 or more strikeouts in a season since 2002.
 
Those other programs to have three pitchers with 100 or more strikeouts in a season were Oklahoma (2012), UCLA (2010), TCU (2006), Ole Miss (2005) and Rice (2002, '03 and '05).
 
Gilbert was the only player from the ASUN named to any of the three preseason D1Baseball.com All-America teams.
 
The Hatters will open coach Steve Trimper's second season on Friday, February 16, against Manhattan College. The team will begin preparation for the season on January 26, which will also be the date of the annual Dick Westervelt First Pitch Banquet. That event is scheduled to begin with a "Happy Hour" from 5:30 until 6:30 p.m. at the Wayne Sanborn Center in Deland.
 
Tickets for the event are $20 per person. For more information on the banquet, and to purchase tickets in advance, click HERE.
 
The 2018 Hatters will hold their first team practice on Friday at 1 p.m.
 
Stetson will also hold an alumni game, with many recent former players, as well as players from the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s returning to Melching Field to square off against the current Stetson squad. That event is scheduled for Saturday, January 27 at 11 a.m. The alumni players will be on the field at 4 p.m. on Friday to take batting practice. There will also be a tour of the upgrades being done at the facility with Coach Trimper.
 
Season tickets for all 42 games scheduled to be played at Melching Field this spring, including all of the games in the Westin Lake Mary Stetson Invitational as well as Virginia Tech games against Wagner and Central Michigan and a tilt between Army and Rhode Island, can be purchased for as little as $95 for general admission.
 
Contact the Stetson Athletics ticket office at 386-738-HATS, or visit GoHatters.com/tix, for more information on season tickets for baseball or any other sport.
 
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