COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou baseball righty Tanner Houck (Collinsville, Ill.) earned a spot on PerfectGame.com's Freshman All-America First Team, as announced by the publication on July 1. Houck has now earned Freshman All-America honors from four of the five major college baseball publications (Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, D1Baseball.com and PerfectGame). The only publication that did not name Houck a Freshman All-American was the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.

Houck 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, strikeouts and starts while boasting an 11-1 strikeout-walk ratio and a .159 opponent batting average. He threw 4.0 perfect innings in a combined no-hitter against Cuba as well.

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