COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou freshman righty Tanner Houck (Collinsville, Ill.) earned his third Freshman All-America honor on Monday (June 29), being named a D1Baseball.com Second Team Freshman All-American. Houck was named a Freshman All-American by both Collegiate Baseball Newspaper and Baseball America earlier this summer. He is the first Freshman All-American at Mizzou since 2007 and the first Tiger pitcher to be named a Freshman All-American since 2002.

Houck put together one of the best freshman seasons in Mizzou baseball history. His eight wins are the most by a Tiger freshman since Kyle Gibson (a former first-round draft pick) in 2007 and his 100.2 innings are the most ever by a Tiger freshman under Tim Jamieson. At the end of the regular season, he had thrown more innings than any other freshman in the country. He compiled a 3.49 ERA on the season, striking out 91 batters over 100.2 innings while walking just 12 in 15 starts as a freshman.

Houck was named to the Golden Spikes Award Midseason Watch List and was an All-SEC Freshman Team honoree earlier this season. He helped Mizzou defeat three top-five teams - No. 6 South Carolina, No. 4 Florida and No. 1 Texas A&M - earning wins in two of those three starts. Houck is spending his summer with USA Baseball's Collegiate National Team, where he currently leads the team in innings pitched and a 7-1 strikeout-walk ratio in 8.2 innings pitched. He is limiting batters .219 on the summer.

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