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COLUMBIA, Mo. – Missouri graduate third baseman Luke Mann added another 2023 postseason accolade to his resume Tuesday, as the St. Louis product earned a spot on the ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Division I All-South Region Second Team.
Mann – a Second-Team All-SEC selection this spring – turned in a banner 2023 campaign, hitting .311 while leading the Tigers in runs scored (54), hits (64), home runs (21) and total bases (140). He also posted a 1.108 OPS, while registering a career-best seven steals this spring.
Most notably, Mann climbed to the top of the Tigers’ career home run chart, matching Jacob Priday’s 15-year-old Mizzou record by hitting his 49th long ball on May 19 at Auburn. Additionally, his career-best 21 home runs this spring tied Dave Silvestri’s 1988 total for second on MU’s single-season list, trailing only Ryan Fry, who hit 27 homers in 1998.
In all, Mann recorded four multi-home run performances this spring, including a three-homer effort that was part of a four-hit night at No. 11 South Carolina on March 24. He drove in a career-high seven runs at Texas A&M on April 15, before homering in six consecutive games, May 2-13. That streak fell just one shy of Griffin Moore’s MU record of seven-straight games with a home run, but nevertheless helped Mann earn SEC Co-Player of the Week and Collegiate Baseball National Player of the Week recognition.
Mann, who also earned preseason All-SEC recognition from the conference’s coaches, logged a career-best 12-game hit streak (Feb. 24-March 15) and finished the season 18 multi-hit performances.
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