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CoSIDA: AUSTIN, Texas (6/1/16) – Finishing out a stellar year of awards for East Texas Baptist University baseball, Conner Combs has earned the highest academic award by CoSIDA for NCAA Division III. Selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), he has been voted the Academic All-American of the Year for NCAA Division III baseball and is also an Academic All-American.

ABCA: MARSHALL, Texas (5/31/16) – In just two days, East Texas Baptist University now has another All-American and three on the year as Conner Combs and Tyler Bates were voted onto the ABCA/Rawlings All-American second-team. It is the first time that ETBU has had an ABCA All-American since 2005 and is only the second time in program history producing ABCA All-Americans. On Thursday, Combs was named a D3baseball.com All-American on the third-team.

D3BASEBALL: MARSHALL, Texas – For the first time in program history the East Texas Baptist University baseball team has a D3baseball.com All-American as Conner Combs made the third team. Combs becomes only the second All-American overall in the NCAA era for ETBU as Trey Luster was an ABCA All-American in 2005.

NFCA: LOUISVILLE, Ky. (5/25/16) – Their names have become synonymous with the NFCA earning awards and for the third year in a row Lacey Lindsey and Jayme Perez are on the All-American team. Both players have been voted onto the third-team for the third straight year.

ABCA: MARSHALL, Texas (5/25/16) – More regional awards have come to East Texas Baptist University in baseball as four players are on the ABCA West All-Region team. Conner Combs, Tyler Bates, Dynas Doud, and Zach Compton are all on an ABCA team. Combs and Bates were named to the first-team and now have a chance to be All-Americans while Doud and Compton made the third team. This is the first time that ETBU has had four players named ABCA All-Region in the same year.