21 February 2024
- Aussies Abroad College Baseball
Travis Bazzana picks up Pac-12 Player of the Week honours after blistering start to season
Sydney’s Travis Bazzana has scooped up NCAA PAC-12 Player of the Week honours.
The Pac-12 is a prestigious and high calibre competition in the USA college sports system.
In a world filled with top-end prospects and elite baseball talent, Bazzana had the best weekend of them all for the Oregon State Beavers (OSU).
The Australian starting second baseman blitzed the competition on opening weekend, hitting .539, smashing three homers and leading the Beavers to a 3-0 record. He had seven RBI and a pair of stolen bases as well.
Bazzana pieced together one of the best individual seasons in OSU program history a year ago. Expectations surrounding Bazzana this season are high, landing on the Golden Spikes Award preseason watch list and earning a spot on multiple preseason All-America teams. There is buzz he could become the first Australian to go in the first round of the 2024 MLB Draft.
Fox Sports Australia wrote a great piece on Bazzana earlier this year.
Bazzana played parts of three season with Blue Sox from 2018-21 as a teenager before heading overseas to college.
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