Comeaux Earns Preseason C-USA Honors

DALLAS – Rice's Braden Comeaux was selected to 2021 Preseason All-Conference USA Baseball Team in the league's annual head coaches' poll, the C-USA office announced on Thursday (Feb. 11).

Comeaux has long-had the full attention of the C-USA head-coaches, but it's been a particularly busy week of receiving honors for the Lake Charles, La., native. On Wednesday (Feb. 10) he was one of just 48 players from across the country named to the preseason watch list for the prestigious 2021 Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award. A Rice graduate who is playing with an added year of eligibility, Comeaux led the Owls in hitting (.349) and slugging percentage (.535) in 2020. He was also second on the on the squad in runs scored (7), on-base average (.404) and home runs (1) – all while playing in just ten of the team's 16 games during that abbreviated collegiate season. Comeaux reached base safely in eight of his ten games played and batted .333 with runners in scoring position.

In the 2021 preseason poll the C-USA head coaches also voted on the respective top-to-bottom finish for the league's new standings format consisting of two six-team divisions. Rice was selected to place third in the West Division behind Southern Miss (receiving 10 first place votes) and Louisiana Tech (two first place votes). The full results of the 2021 coaches' poll is as follows:

2021 PRESEASON BASEBALL AWARDS
(as selected by C-USA's head coaches)

PREDICTED ORDER OF FINISH
WEST
1. Southern Miss (10)
2. Louisiana Tech (2)
3. Rice
4. Middle Tennessee
5. UTSA
6. UAB

EAST
1. Florida Atlantic (10)
2. Old Dominion (1)
3. FIU (1)
4. WKU
5. Charlotte
6. Marshall
(first place votes in parentheses)

PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Parker Bates, Louisiana Tech (Senior, OF)

PITCHER OF THE YEAR
Walker Powell, Southern Miss (Senior, RHP)

ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM
SP Gabe Shepard So. Southern Miss
SP Hunter Gregory Jr. Old Dominion
SP Walker Powell Sr. Southern Miss
RP Hunter Stanley Sr. Southern Miss
C J Paul Fullerton Sr. UAB
IF Derek Cartaya r-Sr. FIU
IF Brett Coker So. Middle Tennessee
IF Braden Comeaux Sr. Rice
IF Hunter Wells Sr. Louisiana Tech
IF Taylor Young Sr. Louisiana Tech
OF Parker Bates Sr. Louisiana Tech
OF Bobby Morgensen Sr. Florida Atlantic
OF Gabe Montenegro Jr. Southern Miss
DH/UT Mitchell Hartigan So. Florida Atlantic
DH/UT Davis Sims Sr. WKU

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