LSU right-hander Zack Hess receivers All-America recognition from Baseball America

BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU junior right-hander Zack Hess was named Monday to the Baseball America magazine third-team preseason All-America squad.

Hess, who ranked No. 6 last season in the Southeastern Conference in strikeouts (107), has a 14-7 career mark and four saves in his two seasons at LSU with a 4.28 ERA.

In 153.1 career innings (47 appearances/22 starts), he has recorded 79 walks and 190 strikeouts, and he has limited opponents to a .216 cumulative batting average.

Hess, a product of Forest, Va., was 7-6 last season with a 5.05 ERA, working 92.2 innings in 16 starts and one relief appearance. He pitched magnificently in a win over Arkansas in the SEC Tournament, limiting the Razorbacks to one run on one hit in seven innings with two walks and seven strikeouts.

In wins over Mississippi State, Texas A&M and Tennessee in consecutive weeks, Hess was 3-0 with a 0.83 ERA in 21.2 innings, and he allowed just two earned runs on 10 hits with eight walks and 23 strikeouts in that span.

He also pitched brilliantly for the U.S. Collegiate National Team in three starts last summer, allowing no runs on three hits in nine innings with no walks and six strikeouts.