Ball State's Bryan Bullington Named To Baseball America All-America Team
June 20, 2002
Baseball America All-America team
MUNCIE, Ind. - - Add one more slot to the 2002 awards list for Ball State junior right-handed pitcher Bryan Bullington (Madison, Ind./Madison H.S.) as the writers of Baseball America named him to its All-America First Team list Wednesday (June 19). This is Bullington's third All-America First Team selection of the season -- National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and Collegiate Baseball/Louisville Slugger named him a first team selection earlier in the season.
Bullington, the only Mid-American Conference representative in the Baseball America three-team list, is the second BSU player in school history to be named All-America First Team by Baseball America. With the award, Bullington becomes the first Ball State baseball player in school history to be selected All-America First Team by three different selection committees in the same season. In 1986, former Ball State and Major League Baseball player Thomas Howard was a two-time All-America First Team selection, being named by Baseball America and The Sporting News.
During the 2002 season, Bullington paced the Cardinals with a 11-3 record -- 11 wins ties a BSU single-season record -- and 139 strikeouts -- a BSU and Mid-American Conference single-season record. Bullington recorded 10-plus strikeouts in a game eight times during the season, including a season and career-high 15 in his MAC career strikeout record breaking outing against Eastern Michigan (May 3). Bullington’s biggest win came in the Cardinals' 12-4 stomping of then-#17 Miami (Fla.), in a game in which he captured his first victory of the season and struck out a then-career-high tying 13 batters. Bullington's 2.84 ERA was tops the Mid-American Conference.
