NORFOLK, Va. – Carter Trice of the Old Dominion baseball team was named one of 42 semifinalists for the 2021 Dick Howser Trophy, which is the annual national player of the year honor as selected by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA).
Trice, a native of Mechanicsville, Virginia, is third in Conference USA and leads all freshman with a .364 batting average. He tops all C-USA freshmen in runs scored (50), hits (72), homers (12) and total bases (129) and is second among league freshman with 48 runs batted in. He had 20 multi-hit games on the year and was 5-for-6 with a pair of homers and seven RBI in ODU's 15-7 win over Marshall.