DALLAS – A quartet of Conference USA student-athletes were named to the ABCA (American Baseball Coaches Association)/Rawlings All-America Teams, the organization announced Friday – Louisiana Tech INF Taylor Young (first team), Southern Miss RHP Tanner Hall (first team), as well as Old Dominion INF Matt Coutney (second team) and OF Andy Garriola (third team).
 
The teams are voted on by members of the American Baseball Coaches Association and the process is led by the ABCA NCAA Division I All-America Committee, which is chaired by Tommy Raffo of Arkansas State University.
 
Young, the 2022 Conference USA Tournament MVP sat atop the nation in runs scored for a second straight season and broke his own single-season record as he crossed the plate 89 times in 2022. Young led the Bulldog offense in nine different categories and produced 28 multi-hit games. The West Monroe, Louisiana, native broke three different program records in 2022, finishing his career with a .330 batting average in 249 games played. Young set the program’s new hits record in the last series of the season at Charlotte and capped off his five-year tenure with 297 base hits.
 
Hall, the C-USA Pitcher of the Year, finished the season with a 9-3 record and a 2.81 earned run average over 109 innings of work. He fanned 146 and walked just 14 during the year. Following the super regionals, Hall ranks third nationally in strikeout-to-walk ratio (10.43), fourth in strikeouts and 11th in walks per nine innings (1.16).
 
Coutney hit .376 on the season with a single-season school record 27 home runs, which ranks third in the country. He added 18 doubles, scored 66 runs and drove in 70 on the year. He ranks third in the country with 185 total bases and his .808 slugging percentage is sixth in the nation. A native of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Coutney led the Monarchs with 30 multi-hit games, including seven games with three or more hits. He also registered 19 multi-RBI games. He tied an ODU program record when he homered in five-consecutive games in the middle of the season against Virginia, all three games against UAB and William & Mary. He hit seven homers in those five games.
 
Garriola hit .322 on the year with 25 home runs and 80 RBIs, along with 18 doubles. He ranks seventh in the country in RBIs and ninth in home runs. A native of Sierra Madre, California, Garriola finished second on the Monarchs with 24 multi-hit games, including a team-high 10, three-hit games. He led the team with 21 multi-RBI games. He delivered three games with five or more RBIs, including driving in eight in a 14-7 win at FIU.

Full ABCA/Rawlings All-America Teams