BATON ROUGE, La. – Four LSU players received 2015 All-America recognition Thursday from Collegiate Baseball magazine.
Junior shortstop Alex Bregman and freshman pitcher Alex Lange were named first-team All-Americans; senior catcher Kade Scivicque was voted to the second-team All-America squad; and junior first baseman Chris Chinea received a third-team All-America designation.
Bregman, a product of Albuquerque, N.M., is hitting .329 this season with 22 doubles, three triples, nine homers, 47 RBI, 54 runs and 32 stolen bases. Bregman leads the SEC this season in stolen bases and doubles, and he is No. 4 in total bases (131), No. 4 in runs scored and No. 10 in base hits (76).
Bregman’s 32 stolen bases this season represents the fifth-highest single-season total in LSU history. He has 56 career doubles, which ranks No. 8 in LSU’s all-time annals.
Bregman becomes the sixth two-time first-team All-American in LSU history. Bregman, who was also a first-team All-American in 2013, joins pitcher Ben McDonald, second baseman Todd Walker, first baseman Eddy Furniss, catcher Brad Cresse and pitcher Aaron Nola as LSU’s two-time first-team All-Americans.
Lange, a right-hander from Lee’s Summit, Mo., has a 10-0 mark and a 1.94 ERA in 88 innings with 41 walks and 98 strikeouts. The 2015 SEC Freshman of the Year, Lange is No. 1 in the SEC in earned run average, No. 2 in wins, No. 3 in strikeouts and No. 4 in opponent batting average (.208). He was named SEC Freshman of the Week on three occasions this season.
Scivicque, a native of Maurepas, La., is hitting .356 with 19 doubles, five homers and 42 RBI. A candidate for the Johnny Bench Award as the nation’s best catcher, he has thrown out 17 base runners attempting to steal this season. Scivicque is No. 4 in the SEC in doubles and No. 8 in the league in batting average, and he posted a team-best 23-game hitting streak earlier this season.
Chinea, a product of Miami, is hitting .363 with 16 doubles, 11 homers and 55 RBI. He is No. 3 in the SEC in hits (82), and he is sixth in batting average, fifth in RBI (55), fourth in total bases (131), eighth in slugging percentage (.580), 10th in home runs and 10th in doubles. Chinea had no home runs in the first 25 games of the season, but he has homered 11 times in the Tigers’ last 33 games.
LSU has produced 27 first-team all-Americans in its history, including nine during the nine-season tenure of coach Paul Mainieri.