2025 Carson-Newman Baseball News

ROCK HILL, S.C. - Carson-Newman produced a third straight year with more than 200 athletes placed on the SAC Commissioner's Honor Roll with 236, the league office announced Thursday

Carson-Newman baseball alum Grif Hughes is headed to a Major League Baseball organization. The left-hander pitcher had his contract purchased by the Toronto Blue Jays yesterday afternoon.

ORLANDO – Carson-Newman’s Athletic Communications office raked in a whopping 34 awards in the College Sports Communicators Creative and Digital Design Contest, the organization announced last week.

Carson-Newman freshman starting pitcher Kolton Casson is already consensus All-American and added another All-American honor to his already impressive resume earlier today. DII baseball selected Casson as a second team All-American.

CLEVELAND - For an eighth time in the last 10 years, Carson-Newman has finished in the top 60 of the Learfield Director's Cup.

For the third consecutive season, Carson-Newman baseball placed five players on the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District team, the organization announced Tuesday afternoon.

Carson-Newman freshman starting pitcher Kolton Casson is a consensus All-American. The American Baseball Coaches Association selected him as a second team All-American starting pitcher on Friday morning.

Kolton Casson continues to be well-recognized after his historic freshman season. The starting pitcher was named the American Baseball Coaches Association Southeast Region Pitcher of the Year and a first team all-region starting pitcher by the organization on Wednesday.

Less than a week after earning All-American honors from the NCBWA, Carson-Newman freshman starting pitcher Kolton Casson was recognized by a second organization as an All-American, earning second team honors from the Division II Conference Commissioner’s Association on Wednesday morning.

After a historic freshman season, Kolton Casson became the program’s first eighth All-American in Carson-Newman’s NCAA era, by being picked a second team All-American by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) on Wednesday afternoon.

The accolades continue to file in for Kolton Casson after an impressive freshman season. The starting pitcher was named Division II Conference Commissioner's Association Southeast Region Pitcher of the Year on Monday morning, while relief pitcher Eli Norris was selected to the All-Southeast Region second team.

Carson-Newman baseball starting pitcher Kolton Casson was named first team all-region by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) on Friday afternoon.

For the second straight day at the NCAA Tournament, #26 Carson-Newman (37-19) was unable to hold on a narrow margin, falling 4-2 to #22 North Georgia (40-17) on Friday afternoon at Abbey Yard.
Seventh-seeded Carson-Newman (37-18) was unable to sustain early offensive success and allowed four unanswered runs in the final three innings in a 5-4 loss to two-seeded Belmont Abbey (41-15) on Thursday evening at Abbey Yard.

#26 Carson-Newman (37-17) begins NCAA Regional Tournament play tomorrow evening at 6:00 p.m. when it meets two-seeded #14 Belmont Abbey (40-15) at Abbey Yard in Belmont, North Carolina.

Despite not playing a game since the latest American Baseball Coaches Association poll, Carson-Newman has dropped four spots to #26 in the rankings that were released Tuesday morning.