Nebraska baseball’s Brett Sears earns ABCA/Rawlings All-Region Honor

Nebraska’s Brett Sears receives first-team all central region honors from the American baseball coaches association (ABCA/Rawlings) announced on Tuesday.

Sears is now a third Husker to be recognized as the first-team All-Region in last two seasons after he was awarded the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) District 6 Player of the year last week.

One of the finalists for the Dick Howser Trophy and the National Pitcher of the Year, Sears was the Big Ten conference’s Pitcher of the Year and made the Big Ten All-Conference First Team while pitching to a 9-1 record with a 2. I want to highlight his 16 ERA and 101 strikeouts in 104 innings.

It should be noted that the 2024 campaign became unexpectedly bright for Sears: the team, strengthened with new players, was among the leaders in the country for most of the season. The 2 is fifth in the Nation and the Westphalia, Iowa native is proud to have helped the team earn the win. 16 ERA and 0. 88 WHIP, 19 K/BB ratio, 5. 32 strikeout-to-walk ratio, and 20th in hits allowed/9 innings. As for the teams that are 24th in walks allowed/9 inn. , that spot is taken by the Rockies according to the statistic 6. 23. (1. 64).

Huskers Nebraska reached a win over Purdue in their latest Big Ten tournament game, and the senior became the first NU pitcher since at least 1999 to have a record of 9-0 on the mound.

Sears is only the second Husker hurler with 100 plus strikeouts in one campaign after 2008 after having totaling 101 of them, which is placing him ninth all-time. Sears also finished the year tied for eighth on the program’s single-season list with 104 IP in 2024.