Gavin Williams

East Carolina’s Gavin Williams was named the American Athletic Conference Player-of-the-Year and a Collegiate Baseball First-Team All-America selection. He enters the Nashville Super Regional ranked nationally in K/9 (sixth/14.23), wins (seventh/10), ERA (ninth/1.82), strikeouts (20th/117), K to BB ratio (32nd/6.16) and H/9 (34th/6.08). He has allowed just 16 runs (16 earned) on 50 hits in 74.0 innings. Standing fourth on the Pirates single-season strikeouts chart, the right-hander went unbeaten during league play posting a 7-0 ledger where he struck out 69 batters and walked just nine. He surrendered just eight runs (all earned) on 29 hits in 41.1 innings and sported a 1.74 ERA.