Razorbacks receive All-SEC honors

FAYETTEVILLE - By vote of the SEC head baseball coaches, Arkansas Razorbacks catcher Grant Koch, shortstop Jax Biggers and center fielder Dominic Fletcher were named All-Southeastern Conference, it was announced Monday by the SEC Office in Birmingham, Ala.

Sophomore catcher Koch of Fayetteville, Arkansas’ second-ever All-SEC catcher as the first since Jake Wise in 2014, was named first-team AllSEC after not only being an excellent every day catcher but a hitting .287 with 13 home runs and 40 RBI.

Koch is an ongoing semifinalist for the Johnny Bench Award honoring college baseball’s best catcher.

Sophomore junior college transfer Biggers was nearly flawless at short, just six errors, for the 39-15 Hogs, and led the Razorbacks hitting for all games, .335, and for the fourth-place Razorbacks’ 18-11 SEC games hitting .340.

Freshman Fletcher, regarded by Coach Dave Van Horn as perhaps his best Razorbacks defensive center fielder since coaching head coaching the Razorbacks starting in 2003, hits .292 and has hit 10 home runs,, the most by a Razorbacks freshman since Zak Cox’s 13 in 2009.

All can increase their stats as the Razorbacks, ranked 13th nationally by the USA Today Coaches poll and assuredly in next week’s NCAA Regionals and likely to host at Baum Stadium as the SEC West runner-up and overall fourth-place SEC finisher, start their double-elimination SEC Tournament at approximately 8 o’clock Wednesday night in Hoover, Ala. playing the winner of tonight’s play-in game between Mississippi State and Georgia.