TEMPE, Ariz. – Ten Sun Devil Baseball student-athletes have earned Pac-12 All-Conference honors, including six First Team All-Conference selections, the Pac-12 announced Wednesday.
Arizona State’s 10 all-conference members lead the Pac-12 and are the program’s most selections since 2011. The Devils’ six first team selections are tied with UCLA for the most in the conference and are tied for the second most in school history. ASU leads the conference with 30 first team selections over the past six seasons.
Junior starting left-handed pitcher Ryan Kellogg picked up first team honors for the third consecutive season and is joined on the first team by redshirt senior right fielder Trever Allen, junior right-handed pitcher Ryan Burr, sophomore catcher Brian Serven, junior center fielder Johnny Sewald, and sophomore shortstop Colby Woodmansee.
Four Sun Devils garnered honorable mention recognition, including senior first baseman Joey Bielek, sophomore third baseman David Greer, junior left-handed pitcher Brett Lilek, and freshman second baseman Andrew Snow.
Sewald also earned a spot on the conference’s All-Defensive Team for the second season in a row as he recorded 129 putouts without an error in 54 starts at center field. He ranks in the top 10 in the Pac-12 in batting average, runs scored and on-base percentage, and has stolen 20 bases this year, third most in the conference. He registered a hit in nine of the final 10 games of the regular season, and has reached base in 36 of the past 37 games.
Kellogg is the eighth Sun Devil to earn First Team All-Pac-10/12 honors three times, including the first since Mike Leake in 2007-09. Kellogg started 15 games and threw 108 innings with a career-best 86 strikeouts en route to an 8-2 record. He tossed his fourth career complete game in a win over Washington State on May 14, and owns the past three complete-game shutout wins for the Devils. He ranks in the top 10 all-time at ASU in career innings pitched as he has tossed more than 100 innings in all three seasons at ASU, is one of eight pitchers in school history with 45 or more career starts, and is just the 12th Sun Devil, and only fourth left-hander, with at least 27 career wins.
ASU’s Three-Time First Team All-Pac-10/12 Recipients
Alvin Davis, 1B/DH, 1980-82
Don Wakamatsu, C, 1984-86
Andrew Beinbrink, 3B, 1997-1999
Dustin Pedoria, SS, 2002-04
Ike Davis, OF/1B/LHP, 2006-08
Petey Paramore, C, 2006-08
Mike Leake, RHP/UTL, 2007-09
Ryan Kellogg, LHP, 2013-15
Allen, Burr, Sewald and Lilek picked up all-conference recognition for the second time in their careers as Allen earned a honorable mention nod in 2013, Burr and Sewald were both honorable mention selections in 2014, and Lilek was a first team recipient in 2014.
Allen, who started 52 games in right field this season, leads the team with a .345 batting average, a .505 slugging percentage and 69 hits, including 16 doubles and four home runs. He has scored 44 runs, tied for the team high, and he has driven in 28. He became the 17th member of ASU’s 200-hit, 100-RBI, 20-HR club this season, and is the 15th Sun Devil to appear in more than 200 career games.
Burr tallied 13 saves and eight wins in 41 2/3 innings across 31 appearances this season. He is the only player in the nation with double-digit saves and eight wins, and he is tied for first in the Pac-12 in saves with 13 and tied for second in the conference with eight victories. He is seventh in the conference with 69 strikeouts, and is the only full-time reliever to rank among the top eight in the Pac-12 in strikeouts. He broke the school’s all-time saves record this season and currently sits at 37, and ranks fifth in school history with 92 career appearances.
Woodmanse started all 55 games at shortstop, the only Sun Devil to start every game, and leads the team in hits, extra-base hits, RBI, doubles and total bases. He is the first Sun Devil since Brett Wallace in 2008 to lead the team in both hits and RBI, and he also paces the team with 23 multi-hit games and 12 multi-RBI games, the first Sun Devil since Zack MacPhee in 2010 to do so. Woodmansee has a hit in 45 of ASU’s 55 games this season and has reached base in all but five games in 2015.
Serven started 48 games this season, including 40 at catcher, and ranks second on the team with 33 RBI and tied for the lead in home runs with five. He has 55 hits and a .301 batting average, and is fourth in the Pac-12 with 16 runners caught stealing. He put together two of the top individual offensive performances this season, including a career-high six RBI game against Tennessee Tech, and two home runs, five hits and four runs scored vs. Stanford.
Bielek made 42 starts at first base in 2015 and batted .314 with 50 hits, 16 RBI ad 23 runs scored. He recorded two home runs in the final regular-season series of the year at USC, his first two career home runs, and he notched the game-winning RBI single in the series-clinching win at Utah.
Lilek started 15 games across 76.2 innings with a 4-2 record and a 3.29 ERA, the lowest among ASU’s starting pitchers. He netted Pac-12 Player of the Week honors after he tossed his first career complete game in a 2-1 win over Pac-12 champion UCLA, and he set career high with 11 strikeouts the following weekend vs. Washington State.
A pair of underclassmen infielders earned all-conference honors for the first time. Greer became the team’s everyday starter at third base three weeks into the season and set career-high offensive marks with a .318 batting average, 56 hits, including 11 doubles, 28 RBI and 22 runs scored. He has a hit in 35 of the past 44 games, and has 15 multi-hit games. Snow, on pace to become the 10th Sun Devil freshman in the past 10 years to finish the season with a .300 or higher batting average, is hitting .308 with 40 hits, 21 RBI and 17 runs scored in 37 starts.
