NSU’s Danny Hosley is among 5 finalists for Olerud Award
Fred Jeter | 6/10/2021, 6 p.m.
Norfolk State University’s Danny Hosley is one of five finalists for the John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year Award.
Founded as a national award in 2010, the Olerud trophy goes to the NCAA Division I baseball player who excels as both a hitter and pitcher.
In helping the Spartans to their first MEAC title and NCAA bid this season, Hosley was 7-1 with a 2.95 earned run average on the mound.
At the plate, the senior from Langley High in Northern Virginia batted .375 with eight doubles, two triples, a home run, 23 runs batted in and nine stolen bases.
He was voted the MEAC Player of the Year last month.
The Olerud Award will be presented later this summer by the College Baseball Foundation. Olerud was an outstanding two-way player at Washington State University in the 1980s.
The Spartans’ outstanding season ended with losses in the NCAA Baseball Tournament’s regional in Greenville,N.C., to host East Carolina University and the University of Maryland.
