University of Southern Mississippi Athletics
Southern Miss Starting Pitcher Tanner Hall Earns Baseball America First Team All-America Honors
6/28/2022 9:01:00 AM | Baseball
HATTIESBURG, Miss. – Tanner Hall enjoyed quite the sophomore season as the Southern Miss top starting pitcher in 2022.
The Conference USA Pitcher of the Year finished the season with a 9-3 record and a 2.81 earned run average over 109 innings of work. He fanned 146 and walked just 14 during the year. Following the super regionals, Hall ranks nationally No. 3 in strikeout-to-walk ratio (10.43), No. 4 in strikeouts and No. 11 in walks per nine innings (1.16).
As a result, Baseball America becomes the latest organization, Monday, to honor Hall with a first team All-American honor. Of the four major news outlets that cover college baseball with two additional organizations that pick All-America squads, including the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA), Hall also earned first team honors by ABCA/Rawlings, Collegiate Baseball, D1Baseball.com and a second team nod by the NCBWA.
His awards during the year also included being named a national semifinalist for both the Dick Howser Trophy and Golden Spikes Award semifinalist, as well as winning the Ferriss Trophy recipient for top collegiate baseball player in the state of Mississippi. In addition, Hall captured two C-USA Pitcher of the Week awards during the year.
Later this week, Hall reports to the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team training camp with an opportunity to make a squad that will participate in Honkbal Week in Haarlem, Netherlands, July 8-15.
Hall is only one of two Golden Eagles to ever earn first team All-America honors on at least five different lists. The other is Nick Sandlin, who collected first team honors on all six national award naming bodies.
