Feltner named Freshman All-American

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MOREHEAD — Putting together a stellar debut season, Morehead State University standout Jackson Feltner has been tabbed a Freshman All-American by Collegiate Baseball.

Hailing from Louisa, the Ohio Valley Conference Freshman of the Year ranked second among all true freshmen in Division 1 with a .390 average.

The productive Feltner is a Lawrence County High School graduate.

Feltner's season stats also included a .652 slugging percentage, .452 on-base percentage, 64 hits, 11 home runs, 10 doubles, 42 RBI and a .981 fielding percentage at first base.

After hitting a pair of home runs in Morehead State's series at Tennessee Tech, Feltner became the fifth freshman in program history to hit double-digit homers in a season. He's the first to hit 10-plus homers as a freshman since Taylor Davis in 2009 and now ranks tied for fourth in program history in freshman season homers with 11. Ten of his 11 homers came versus conference teams.

Feltner also compiled conference-leading hitting and reached base streaks at 27 and 36 games, respectively. His hitting streak, which came to an end in the final game at the league tournament, marked the second-longest hitting streak in program history, behind only Glenn Jones 31 game hitting streak spanning the 1980 and 1981 seasons. Feltner's 36 game reached base streak ranked seventh-longest in program history. He recorded at least one hit in every OVC game except one.

Feltner was one of only two OVC players to rank in the top five of the three major slash lines (batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage). The Lawrence County product also put together 19 multi-hit efforts and 12 multi-RBI performances.