Flora Named NCBWA District 9 Player of the Year

DALLAS — For the first time in the 29-year history of the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association's District Players of the Year, a UC Santa Barbara Baseball player is best in the west. Jackson Flora , the Gauchos' single-season strikeout king, was named the District 9 Player of the Year on Friday, the only pitcher in a three-way tie for the title. Joining him on the rostrum are UCLA's Roch Cholowsky and Arizona State's Landon Hairston. Flora not only racked up a program record 133 strikeouts to rank third among all Division-I pitchers, but he did it while maintaining the...