Scott Lewis Named Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American – Ohio State Buckeyes
6/5/2002 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
June 5, 2002
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State lefthanded pitcher Scott Lewis (Fr., Washington Court House, Ohio/Washington Court House) has been named to the Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American team, Collegiate Baseball released Wednesday.
Lewis, the Big Ten Freshman of the Year was also a first team All-Big Ten selection and finished the year with an 8-2 record and a team-best 2.84 ERA. He went 2-2 to start the year but won his last six decisions. Lewis finished the year with a Buckeye-best 90 strikeouts in 92.0 innings and was named to the all-tournament teams at the Big Ten Tournament and at the South Bend Regional.
Lewis pitched the first nine-inning complete game of his career to beat Minnesota May 25 to earn the sixth Big Ten Tournament championship for Ohio State. That 6-3 win, in which he struck out six and walked two, earned the Buckeyes the automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament. At the South Bend Regional last weekend, Lewis pitched another nine-inning complete game in a 6-4 elimination victory over South Alabama. He struck out 10 Jaguar batters without a walk. He finished the year with six complete games.
Two of his outings were shutouts and in another two games, he combined to pitch a shutout. He struck out a career-best 12 batters in an 8-0 shutout of Purdue on April 28. He had an 11-strikeout game vs. Detroit, a game the Buckeyes won 10-0.
He joins a select group of Buckeyes from the 2002 Ohio State squad that earned Louisville Slugger Freshman All-America honors in their freshman seasons: Doug Deeds (So., Bexley, Ohio/Bexley) in 2001, E.J. Laratta (Sr., Englewood, Colo./Cherry Creek) in 1999, Josh Newman (So., Wheelersburg, Ohio/Wheelersburg) in 2001, Chrisitan Snavely (So., Defiance, Ohio/Defiance) in 2001, and Nick Swisher (Jr., Parkersburg, W.Va./Parkersburg) in 2000.
The complete list of the 2002 Louisville Slugger Freshman All-America Team can be found at: http://www.baseballnews.com.
