Becomes fourth Daktronics First Team selection in school history

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RINDGE, N.H. (May 24, 2013) – Junior right-hander Trevor Graham (Sebastian, Fla.) of the East Region champion Franklin Pierce University baseball team has been named to the Daktronics All-America First Team, as announced by Friday by Daktronics. Graham is the only East Region player to be named to the First Team.

Overall, Graham is one of two Northeast-10 players and three East Region players to earn All-America honors from Daktronics. Both St. Thomas Aquinas senior catcher and Adelphi senior reliever Dillon McNamara were named to the All-America Second Team.

Named the East Region Pitcher of the Year by both Daktronics and the ABCA, Graham has been nothing short of dominant for the Ravens in his first season in Rindge after transferring in from Florida Tech. With a flock of professional scouts on-hand at every start, Graham leads a pitching staff which ranks first in the NCAA (through last weekend's regional tournaments) in both strikeouts per nine innings (9.2) and hits allowed per nine innings (6.91) by ranking among the top 50 pitchers in the nation in ERA (1.76), strikeouts per nine innings (10.03), strikeouts (114), hits allowed per nine innings (5.98), strikeout-to-walk ratio (6.33), WHIP (0.84) and wins (9). The most impressive of those numbers among his peers are strikeouts, WHIP and hits allowed per nine innings, as he ranks among the top five in the country in all three. In addition, through the East Regional, he is in the top 10 in the Northeast-10 Conference in innings pitched (102.1), strikeouts, strikeouts per nine innings, ERA and wins. Overall, in his 102.1 innings, he has allowed 28 runs (20 earned) on 69 hits and 18 walks to post a 9-2 record and hold opponents to a .191 batting average.

Graham was a consensus All-East Region First Team selection, and is a finalist for the Tino Martinez Award and the Josh Willingham Award, both of which are awarded by College Baseball Lineup. He was also the Northeast-10 Pitcher of the Year and an All-Northeast-10 First Team selection.

The East Region champion Ravens (36-17) open pursuit of their first national title on Saturday afternoon against Shippensburg, the Atlantic Region champion. First pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m. at Coleman Field at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, N.C.

For more information on Franklin Pierce Athletics, please visit the official website of Franklin Pierce Athletics (http://athletics.franklinpierce.edu). Also be sure to follow the Ravens through the Department of Athletics' official Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/FranklinPierceRavens), its YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/franklinpiercesports) and its Twitter feed (http://twitter.com/FPUathletics).