Fresno State Athletics
Acevedo Earns All-American Honors
6/21/1999 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
June 10, 1999
Fresno, Calif. - Bulldog outfielder Anthony Acevedo (Bakersfield) received national accolades today when he was picked as an Honorable Mention All-American selection by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.
Acevedo, a junior transfer from Bakersfield College, led the Bulldogs this season with a .389 batting average after flirting with .400 for most of the season. His performance at the plate this year is the eighth-highest single-season batting average for a Bulldog.
Besides leading Fresno State in batting average, Acevedo was tops on the team with 64 runs, 89 hits, 23 doubles - tied for fifth on the single season list, five triples, 59 RBI and was second with six home runs.
Acevedo is the fourth Bulldog to receive All-American recognition from the NCBWA and picks up his sixth award of the season. During the season he was named to the 1999 Pepsi-Johnny Quik Classic and Hawaii Rainbow Easter Tournament All-Tournament teams and was Western Athletic Conference Player of the Week on March 15.
After the season ended, more awards came in for Acevedo who was named Team MVP at the annual Fresno State awards banquet and he was later honored with a first team All-WAC selection. Acevedo works as hard off the field as he does on the field as was evidenced this fall when he was named to the Deans List for having at least a 3.5 GPA.
