Klug Named Rawlings/ABCA 2nd-Team All-American
Honor-filled season continues for Toros first baseman
May 30, 2006

Carson CA – After garnering a trio of MVP honors earlier this month, Toros first baseman Jason Klug (Moreno Valley, CA/San Bernardino Valley College) has been named a Rawlings/American Baseball Coaches Association 2nd-team All-American, it was announced Tuesday morning by the ABCA. Klug, who was named NCBWA West Region Player of the Year, ABCA West Region Player of the Year and CCAA Player of the Year, completes one of the most successful individual seasons in CSUDH history after leading the Toros to the CCAA regular-season title in his first season in Cardinal and Gold.

“Jason has been the best thing offensively at this campus since Joe Gevas,” begins CSUDH baseball head coach George Wing. “He has done all of it with a bad shoulder, gutting it out all season, which speaks volumes about him. He deserves everything he has gotten for playing through the pain. He has a contagious attitude towards hitting that spreads throughout the team. Even when he would hit a home run, he would dissect the at-bat pitch by pitch, and that type of attitude spreads to the other players, changing their approach to an at-bat.”

On the season, Klug led the Toros in batting average (.405), home runs (11), RBIs (56), hits (83), total bases (135), slugging percentage (.659) and on-base percentage (.453), and finished the regular season atop the CCAA in batting average, RBIs, hits, and total bases. The Moreno Valley native also established a new CSUDH single-season hit streak record, hitting safely in 23-straight games.

Klug is the first Toros baseball All-American since Joe Gevas accomplished the feat in 2003, achieving a 3rd-team All-America selection to go along with his CCAA Player of the Year honor that same season.