Northwestern State Demon Baseball 2020 DEMON ALL-AMERICANS
7 Danny Bob Turner
3B • 1967 NAIA Second Team Northwestern State’s first All-American baseball player, winning that honor in 1967. Turner came to Northwestern from Fair Park High School in Shreveport. He won the 1967 Gulf Star Conference batting title as he hit .411 during the regular season and .443 in conference games. Turner played for the 1967 GSC championship team that made the NCAA Midwest Regional. 1967 statistics - 37 hits in 90 at bats, 27 runs batted in , 4 triples, 5 doubles, and 1 home run, 53 total bases.
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C • 1974 NAIA, NCAA Second Team Northwestern’s second All-American selection from New Orleans Redemptorist High School, earned All-American honors during the 1974 season. Woods set an NCAA home run record with 18 in 38 games. He hit one in the NAIA playoffs but only regular season stats count towards a record. Woods was enshrined in the “N” Club Hall of Fame in 1992. 1974 statistics .376 batting average, 52 RBI, 105 total bases, .840 slugging average and a .984 fielding percentage.
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Reggie Gatewood
P • 1994 NCBWA Second Team Reggie Gatewood was named to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association second-team after guiding Northwestern to its second NCAA Regional appearance. The Mabelvale, Ark., native finished the season 11-3 with a 2.14 ERA. He completed 11 of the 14 games he started and led the team with 101 innings pitched. Gatewood is tied with Eric Barkley for most career shutouts at six and ranks third in wins (21), fourth in winning percentage (.807, 21-5) and fourth in ERA (2.56).
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Ryan Anholt
Adam Oller
David Fry
SS • 1998 ABCA Third Team Shortstop Ryan Anholt is the fifth Northwestern State All-American baseball player. The sweet-swinging, left hander from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, was a third-team selection by the American Baseball Coaches Association after a solid season in 1998. In 1999, Anholt proved his talent in the classroom, as well as on the field, as he was a third-team selection on the prestigious GTE Academic All-America Team. Along with his All-American selections, Anholt was selected Southland Conference Player of the Year, SLC Newcomer of the Year, first team All-Louisiana, and first team All-Region (South Central) after the 1998 season. He finished his career at NSU with a .368 batting average, the second highest in the history of the program.
P • 2016 Collegiate Baseball Magazine Second Team; ABCA Third Team Adam Oller became the first Demon to earn All-American honors in 17 years and the first NSU pitcher to do so in 22 years. Oller finished the season 8-1 with a 1.23 ERA, which ranked third nationally. A Conroe, Texas, native, Oller tossed 109 2-3 innings, the second-highest total in school single season history. Oller finished his career with the fourthmost career innings (310 1-3) and career starts (43), the sixth-most strikeouts (188), the eighth-most wins (20) and the ninth-highest winning percentage (.745) in school history.
1B • 2018 Collegiate Baseball Magazine Third Team David Fry became the first Northwestern State position player named to an All-American team in two decades after a remarkable senior season. The Southland Conference Player of the Year and All-Louisiana Hitter of the Year won his second straight team triple crown, batting .327 with 12 home runs and 55 RBIs. Fry set the school single-season doubles record (26) and finished his career as the school’s all-time leader in doubles (74) and at-bats (851) while tying Darryl Woods’ career home run mark of 31. Fry was named the Southland Conference Tournament Most Valuable Player after leading the Demons to the first SLC Tournament title in program history.
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