Eagles’ Noll named Freshman of Year
Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Wednesday named FGCU second baseman Jake Noll as the National Freshman of the Year, adding to the already impressive list of accolades that the young star as collected this year. Noll is also a Louisville Slugger third-team All-American, Atlantic Sun Freshman of the Year, A-Sun first-team selection and A-Sun All-Freshman Team member.
“It is a tremendous honor for Jake to be named National Freshman Player of the Year,” said Eagles coach Dave Tollett. “He had an outstanding year for us and worked hard for all the recognition he is receiving now. I’m glad to see him recognized as the best freshman in the country.”
Noll was brilliant during his freshman campaign serving as the catalyst at the top of the Eagles lineup. He became the first FGCU player in program history to earn Freshman of the Year honors from the A-Sun.
He also collected a school record 101 hits this season which ranks second in the nation behind A-Sun Player of the Year Max Pentecost and stole a conference-best and school single-season record 25 bases. Noll broke the single-season hits record in the first inning of the A-Sun semifinal game against Lipscomb with his first and only triple of the season.
The Charlotte High School product built a team-best .367 batting average to go with 56 runs, 18 doubles and 29 RBI all while being the only Eagle to appear in all 61 games this season, also a single-season program record.
Noll also put together a 19-game hit streak which is the longest of any FGCU player in a season since Josh Chester had a 24-game streak in 2009.???