The accolades keep growing for sophomore Bryce Brentz. After being named to six All-America teams, the Sun Belt Player of the Year and a semi-finalist for the Golden Spikes award, he has now been named to the 2009 USA National Collegiate Baseball team.
"I am just glad to have made the team because it is a great honor," Brentz said to GoBlueRaiders.com. "Everyone who's here trying out are great players and competitors.
"I think it helped being a two-way player [because] I plan to help them on the mound but I know my main focus is to hit."
The Crossville, Tenn. native is one of 22 players selected. He is the only representative from the Sun Belt Conference and one of four players from the state of Tennessee with Vanderbilt's Sonny Gray, Tennessee's Blake Forsythe and Mississippi's Drew Pomeranz.
Play for the team began Thursday with a five game sweep against Canada. The combined runs of both teams for the series was 63-16, including Sunday's final score of 20-3. Brentz went 4 for 13 with two RBIs, scoring three runs.
The USA National Collegiate Baseball Team has now won 29 consecutive games dating back to last summer.
The team will play Guatemala in a four-game series in North Carolina beginning July 1, followed by games against summer collegiate baseball teams in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The team will then travel to Japan for a five-game series at the 37th USA vs. Japan Collegiate All-Star Championship.
The final event the team will play in is the World Baseball Challenge in Prince George, British Columbia July 18-26.
Brentz joins Dewon Brazelton, the most recent Blue Raiders to be apart of the USA National Baseball team.
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