June 29, 2005

Mizzou freshman Jacob Priday was named to Baseball America's Freshman All-America Team on Wednesday. Priday, who hit .305 for Missouri in 2005, is the fist Tiger to earn the honor since 2002.

Priday played in 60 of MU's 63 games last season, starting 58 times. He led the team with nine home runs and had 67 RBI, which was third most in the Big 12 Conference. He had 13 doubles, three triples and a .511 slugging percentage.

He was an All-Big 12 Honorable Mention selection and earned a spot on the All-Big 12 Tournament Team.

The last Mizzou player to earn Freshman All-American status was Travis Wendte in 2002.

The teams were selected by the staff of Baseball America.

FIRST TEAM
C J.P. Arencibia, Tennessee
1b-Sean Doolittle, Virginia
2b-Taylor Harbin, Clemson
3b-Beau Mills, Fresno State
SS-Todd Frazier, Rutgers
OF-Corey Brown, Oklahoma State
OF-Jacob Priday, Missouri
OF-Steven Strausbaugh, Western Carolina
DH-Matt Wieters, Georgia Tech
UT-Joe Savery, Rice
SP-James Adkins, Tennessee
SP-Adrian Alaniz, Texas
SP-Johnny Dorn, Nebraska
SP-John Ely, Miami (Ohio)
RP-Mickey Storey, Florida Atlantic
SECOND TEAM
 C-Andrew Walker, Texas Christian
 1B-Justin Baum, Pacific
 2B-Jordan Pacheco, New Mexico
 3B-Brad Emaus, Tulane
 SS-Darwin Barney, Oregon State
 OF-Matt Hague, Washington
 OF-Kody Kaiser, Oklahoma
 OF-Danny Payne, Georgia Tech
 DH-Chris Johnson, Stetson
 UT-Cole White, Army
 SP-Kenn Kasparek, Texas
 SP-David Price, Vanderbilt
 SP-Wes Roemer, Cal State Fullerton
 SP-Nick Schmidt, Arkansas
 RP-David Robertson, Alabama