Feltner named OVC Freshman of the Year

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MOREHEAD – Morehead State University first baseman Jackson Feltner has been named the Ohio Valley Conference Freshman of the Year.

Feltner is a Lawrence County High School graduate.

In addition, Feltner was tabbed the OVC's top first baseman, earning First-Team honors as well as a nod to the All-Freshman Team.

Hailing from Louisa, Feltner ranks as the OVC's best freshman hitter. Feltner was second among all true freshmen in Division I with a .397 average heading into the OVC Baseball Tournament.

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 currently ranks tied for fourth in program history in freshman season homers with 11. Ten of his 11 homers came versus conference teams

Late in the 2021 college baseball regular season, Feltner improved his conference-leading hitting and reached base streaks to 26 and 35 games respectively. At 26 games, his hitting streak 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 35 game reached base streak ranked seventh-longest in program history. He recorded at least one hit in every OVC game except one.

He is 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). Feltner owned a .653 slugging number and a .453 on-base percentage at the time he was honored. He put together 18 multi-hit efforts and 12 multi-RBI performances.