UCLA Duo Earns Freshman All-American Honors
June 07, 2017 | Baseball
TUCSON, Ariz. - UCLA baseball's Kyle Cuellar and Michael Toglia were named to the Freshman All-American Team by Collegiate Baseball, announced the publication on Wednesday.
It marks the third year in a row a UCLA player has been tabbed a Freshman All-American as Griffin Canning earned the honor is 2015 followed by Kyle Molnar last season. In total, 15 players have earned Freshman All-America honors under head coach John Savage.
Cuellar, a native of Arcadia, Calif., was named All-Pac-12 honorable mention and led UCLA batting .319 with 13 runs and 20 RBIs. He was also the team leader on-base percentage at .412 and third in slugging percentage at .425. Cuellar recorded 10 extra-base hits including hitting his first career home run at Texas on March 10. During conference play, he batted a team-best .373 with 11 RBIs and six runs scored. Cuellar also led the team during Pac-12 play in on-base percentage at .472, while slugging .475. Cuellar set a career-high with four hits against Washington and also drove in the game-tying run in the ninth inning with two outs in the series-clinching win at No. 18 Stanford.
Toglia, a native of Gig Harbor, Wash., was also named All-Pac-12 honorable mention and finished second on the team with eight home runs, 33 RBIs, and a .483 slugging percentage. He finished the season batting .261 and was top-10 in the Pac-12 in home runs and walks. He also scored 31 runs and recorded 19 extra-base hits. During conference play, Toglia hit .312 with 25 RBIs and 20 runs scored. He slugged .434 with five home runs and recorded a .434 on-base percentage. Toglia was top-10 in Pac-12 play in slugging, on-base percentage, RBIs, home runs and walks. Toglia drove in a career-high six runs at USC with three hits including a pair of doubles on May 6.
