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Three Owls On Watch List For 2007 Clemens Award
May 4, 2007 Three Rice pitchers, Joe Savery, Cole St.Clair and Ryan Berry, are on the official watch list for the 2007 Clemens Award as the top pitcher in college baseball. The three Owls helped the baseball team to a 37-11 record and a number two ranking in the country. Though in just his first year of Division I baseball, Berry is 7-2 with a 2.55 ERA in 13 starts. The standout from Humble, Tex., has struck out 81 batters in 81.1 innings. Savery is 6-1 with a 2.01 ERA. The junior left-hander from nearby Lamar High School has faced 217 batters and held the foes to a combined .221 average. The all-America honoree also serves as a first baseman and left-handed hitter who is among the Conference USA leaders in batting average. St.Clair was sidelined earlier in the season but he has been a force coming out of the bullpen the last few weeks. The Santa Ana, Calif., native has three saves and a 2.70 ERA in seven appearances. St.Clair holds opponents to a .167 batting average and he strikes out 10.8 hitters per nine innings of work. The Roger Clemens Award is named after major league great Roger Clemens. As a professional, Clemens has won 348 games (eighth-best in history), fanned 4,604 hitters and been honored with seven Cy Young Awards as the top pitcher in his league. The Roger Clemens Award is the only award of its kind, honoring the finest pitchers in college baseball. The watch list is comprised of all Division I pitchers who were named as pre-season all-America by either Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball or the NCBWA. Additional pitchers will be added each week when honored as National Pitchers of the Week by the NCBWA and after the NCAA releases its statistical rankings during the college baseball season.
The fourth Clemens Award will be presented to the nation's top college pitcher at the conclusion of a gala dinner in Houston in July. All Division I head baseball coaches will take part in the voting for the honor, in addition to a selected panel of national media. Rice's Eddie Degerman was a finalist for the award last season. The Owl trio of Jeff Niemann, Wade Townsend and Philip Humber were all nominated for the first award in 2004. |