EVANSVILLE, Ind. – University of Evansville junior shortstop Simon Scherry (Santa Claus, Ind./Heritage Hills) has been named to the prestigious Brooks Wallace Award Watch List by the College Baseball Foundation. The Brooks Wallace Award is presented annually to the nation’s top shortstop in collegiate baseball.
A group of 101 of the most talented shortstops in Division I college baseball were named to the initial 2023 Brooks Wallace Award watch list late Tuesday night. The award honors the nation’s top shortstop and is named for former Texas Tech shortstop Brooks Wallace, who played from the Red Raiders from 1977 to 1980, before passing away from leukemia at the age of 27.
Scherry is one of four Missouri Valley Conference shortstops to make the initial watch list, joining Randal Diaz of Indiana State, Nick Rodriguez of Missouri State, and Southern Illinois’ Kaeber Rog. Scherry currently has the best fielding percentage among starting shortstops in the Missouri Valley Conference with a .981 mark. He has committed the fewest errors of any starting shortstop who has started 30 games or more this year, having committed just three errors. He also ranks second in the Valley in defensive assists with 114, and has posted the highest single-game assist total in Division I baseball this year with 11 assists against Belmont on April 2.
Offensively, Scherry is batting .291 with seven doubles, two triples, two home runs and 18 RBI for Evansville. He has also posted a .408 on-base percentage this year, as he ranks among the nation’s top 130 players with 27 walks so far this season. Scherry is also a perfect seven-for-seven in the stolen base department.
Evansville will return to the diamond this weekend, as the Purple Aces will travel to Murray, Kentucky to take on the Murray State Racers in a key Missouri Valley Conference series. UE will bring a 21-15 overall record into this weekend’s series after posting a 10-8 win over Western Kentucky on Tuesday night. This weekend’s series is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. on Friday night, and all three games of the series can be heard live in Evansville on 107.1 FM-WJPS and the Old National Bank/Purple Aces Sports Network from Learfield. Friday night’s series-opener is also available on ESPN+.
