Asche Named Collegiate Baseball Second-Team All-American

Cody Asche was honored as one of the top players in the nation Thursday, earning Second-Team All-America accolades from Collegiate Baseball newspaper.

A native of O'Fallon, Mo., Asche is Nebraska's first All-American since Johnny Dorn in 2008 and the first Husker position player to earn national honors since 2006.

The third baseman completed an outstanding regular season in which he finished as the Big 12's leader home runs (12), doubles (27), total bases (133), and slugging percentage (.639), while also ranking second in RBIs (56) and 12th in batting average (.327). Asche ended his junior campaign on fire, going 8-for-13 (.615) with four doubles and three RBIs while leading Nebraska to a series win over Missouri. He put an exclamation point on his year with a 4-for-4 day in the season finale, hitting three doubles to set Nebraska's single-season school record with 27, breaking the previous mark held by Jed Morris (2002) and Mike Duncan (1985). Asche also moved into a seventh-place tie on the all-time NU chart with 46 career doubles, tied with former Huskers Darin Erstad (1993-95) and Todd Sears (1995-97).

Asche was among seven Big 12 players named to Collegiate Baseball's All-America teams.