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Shewmake Earns National Team Invitation

Credit: Deaver, Colin

COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Texas A&M shortstop Braden Shewmake was selected to play for the 2018 USA Baseball Collegiate National Team, it was announced Thursday. It marks a return invite for Shewmake who played 17 games for the Red, White & Blue in 2017.

After last season’s College World Series run, Shewmake played 17 games for Team USA, hitting .209 (9-for-43) with five runs, two doubles, one triple, six RBI and two stolen bases.

The USA Baseball Collegiate National Team is slated to play in three international friendship series. The first of the trip is the 18th USA vs. Chinese Taipei International Series booked for June 28-July 2 in North Carolina. The U.S. will next play the 42nd USA vs. Japan Collegiate All-Star Series from July 3-9 in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. The campaign wraps up with the 7th Annual USA vs. Cuba International Friendship Series in Cuba from July 13-18.

The list of recent Aggies to play for the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team include Nick Banks, Ryan Hendrix, Daniel Mengden, A.J. Minter, Tyler Naquin and Michael Wacha. Shewmake is the first to play on the team in back-to-back summers since Nick Banks in 2014 and 2015.

This season, Shewmake is batting .311 (42-for-135) with four doubles, four triples, three home runs, 31 RBI and nine stolen bases. He was well represented on the Preseason All-America teams. The Aggie sophomore was named All-America First Team as a shortstop by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. He was also tabbed All-America Second Team as a second baseman by D1Baseball.com, Collegiate Baseball and Perfect Game

In 2015, Nick Banks and Ryan Hendrix represented Texas A&M on the USA College National Team. That year, Banks batted .386 with three doubles, one home run and 11 RBI in 17 games and Hendrix combined on the first-ever no-hitter of the Cuban National Team. In 2014, Banks batted .241 with two doubles, two home runs and 13 RBI and Minter pitched 12.1 innings without allowing an earned run. In 2013, Daniel Mengden posted a 1-0 record with a 1.35 ERA and 11 strikeouts in 13.1 innings. In 2011, Tyler Naquin batted .321 in 12 games, logging four doubles, one triple, two home runs and 10 RBI and Wacha went 1-0 with a 0.79 ERA and 12 strikeouts in 11.1 innings.

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