Two graduate students having career years and a redshirt freshman who picked up right where he left off in the shortened 2020 season earned ASUN Baseball All-Conference honors for the Hatters, as announced by the league today.
 
In addition to the three All-ASUN selections, the Hatters also placed four players on the 2021 ASUN All-Freshman squad.
 
Graduate transfer Hernen Sardinas and redshirt freshman pitcher Nick Durgin were named to the 2021 ASUN First Team All-Conference squad while graduate student Andrew MacNeil was selected to the ASUN Second Team All-Conference team as voted on by the league's nine head coaches.
 
Durgin also led four Hatters who were selected to the ASUN All-Freshman team. He was joined by first baseman Brandon Hylton, catcher Christian Pregent and pitcher Jovan Gill. Hylton and Pregent are both redshirt freshmen athletically and, like Durgin, were unanimous selections to the All-Freshman squad.
 
Sardinas, a graduate transfer from the University of Maine, has enjoyed his best season this spring. He leads the ASUN in both RBI and total bases while ranking second in doubles and slugging, third in batting average, fourth in hits and home runs and sixth in on-base percentage.
 
It is the third time Sardinas, a Miami native, has been selected to an All-Conference team. He was a first-time All-America East pick in 2019 and was a second team pick in 2018.
 
Durgin, who earned Freshman All-America honors for the shortened 2020 season, continued with his outstanding work on the mound this spring. He was selected as the ASUN Pitcher of the Week three times in addition to one national Pitcher of the Week award. Before being shut down for the spring, he posted a 6-2 record with a 2.61 ERA over 62.0 innings of work.
 
His final outing of the year was a two-hit complete game shutout against Jacksonville on April 30. In two games against the Dolphins, he worked 15 shutout innings, allowing just five hits. The Melbourne native took a no-hitter into the ninth inning in his start at Alabama, settling for a two-hit victory. He also earned wins over Wichita State and FGCU.
 
For his career, Durgin has an 8-2 record with a 2.31 ERA. He has recorded 94 strikeouts in just 89.2 innings while allowing only 18 walks.
 
MacNeil, who was also named to the ASUN All-Academic Team for the fourth time in his career, earned ASUN Second Team All-Conference honors for his outstanding final season.
 
A graduate student from Gainesville, Fla., MacNeil currently leads the ASUN, and is tied for fifth in the nation, with 59 runs scored. He also leads the ASUN in triples and times hit by pitch, is second in the league in total bases, third in doubles and also ranks in the top 10 in the league in hits, home runs, walks, on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
 
In addition to Durgin, Hylton and Pregent also had their first seasons on the field cut short by the pandemic. Hylton, who also missed the 2019 season with an injury, has split time between playing first base and filling the designated hitter role. He has battled through injuries again this year, the result of a collision on a play at first base during the second game of the series at Alabama.
 
Hylton enters the series at UNF this weekend hitting .248 on the year with five home runs and 27 RBI.
 
Pregent, who is a two-year team captain despite being a redshirt freshman, started 38 of the first 41 games this year before foul tips off the mast in consecutive games against UNF put him out of action for the last two weeks. He is hitting .232 on the season with three home runs and 13 RBI. His season highlights included a seven-game hit streak that was part of a 17-game stretch when he reached base in every game. His home runs came against Wichita State, Florida and UNF.
 
The only true freshman for the Hatters on the All-Freshman team, Gill appeared in 16 games on the mound this spring, starting six. He opened his college career with 13 consecutive scoreless innings of work in his first two starts. His best weekend came at FGCU when he earned a save on Saturday and then came back Sunday with five shutout innings to get a win.
 
Stetson opens its ASUN Divisional Play-in series at North Florida tomorrow. Game one of the best-of-three series is scheduled for a 6 p.m. start from Harmon Stadium. Saturday's second game is set for a 2 p.m. start and, if necessary, the third game is scheduled for Sunday at 1 p.m.
 
All three games will be broadcast on ESPN+.
 
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