DeBarge, Langevin Earn NCBWA All-America Honors

DALLAS – Louisiana's Kyle DeBarge and LP Langevin added to their postseason baseball accolades as the 2024 National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association's 24th All-America first, second and third teams were announced on Wednesday.

DeBarge was selected by a national panel of NCBWA members as the first-team shortstop with Langevin earning third-team honors as a relief pitcher.

DeBarge, the Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year, hit .355 on the season while setting school-records in both home runs (21) and total bases (179). The junior shortstop drove in 72 runs – the most by a Ragin' Cajun since Greg Blevins (75) in 1990 – while starting in all 62 games for Louisiana.

"Kyle is a game changer, he's a program changer," Louisiana head coach Matt Deggs said. "Anywhere he's been, just look at the records ... the wins and losses, the championships. He's a great teammate. He's a great leader. He's just one of the more dynamic players I've ever had.

"He has the innate ability to will himself to success. And when you combine that with the God given tools and makeup that he has. He has the ability to change a game, change a season and change a program."

Rated as the No. 1 shortstop nationally by D1Baseball, DeBarge finished second in the Sun Belt Conference in slugging percentage (.699), OPS (1.117), home runs (21), hits (91) and at-bats (256).

DeBarge, who joined Jace Conrad (2014) and Blake Trahan (2015) in earning SBC Player of the Year honors, belted 13 homers and drove in 45 RBI in SBC games while becoming the first player in school history to break the 20-home run mark.

Langevin posted a 6-1 record on the mound in his first season in a Louisiana uniform while leading the team with seven saves. The right-hander posted a 3.73 ERA in 23 appearances on the mound and struck out 106 batters in 62.2 innings of work.

"LP was a great sign by (former assistant coach) Jake Wells and (pitching coach) Gunner (Leger) did a tremendous job with him," Deggs said. "Coming in, we knew we had a good arm ... we didn't know quite what we had. To see the progress that he made throughout the fall and spring. Then to realize we do have a stopper on the back end.

"It was an incredible feeling to have that security. He's just getting started and I think he's going to pitch for a long time. It's an easy delivery. It disrupts the hitter and they have trouble finding his fastball. When the secondary stuff improves, which it will, he's going to pitch in the big leagues for a long time."

The Quebec City, Quebec native became the school's sixth player to earn SBC Pitcher of the Year honors joining Scott Dohmann (2000), Austin Faught (2005), Hunter Moody (2006), Carson Baranik (2014), Gunner Leger (2017) and Colten Schmidt (2018).

The No. 5 overall relief pitcher by D1Baseball. Langevin finished as the SBC leader in strikeouts, fewest hits allowed (40) and fewest runs allowed (27). Langevin was tied for third in saves among SBC pitchers, seventh in ERA and tied for ninth in wins.

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2024 NCBWA Division I All-America Team

FIRST TEAM

C Jackson Appel, Texas A&M, Sr.

1B Blake Burke, Tennessee, Jr.

2B Travis Bazzana, Oregon State, Jr.*

SS Kyle DeBarge, Louisiana, Jr.*

3B Charlie Condon, Georgia, r-So.*

OF James Tibbs III, Florida State, Jr.*

OF Braden Montgomery, Texas A&M, Jr.

OF Jace LaViolette, Texas A&M, So.

OF Drew Burress, Georgia Tech, Fr.

OF Lyle Miller-Green, Austin Peay, Graduate*

DH Caleb Cozart, UNC Greensboro, Sr.*

UT Jac Caglianone, Florida, Jr.

SP Chase Burns, Wake Forest, Jr.*

SP Jamie Arnold, Florida State, So.

SP Hagen Smith, Arkansas, Jr.^

SP Trey Yesavage, East Carolina, Jr.^

SP Ryan Johnson, DBU, Jr.^

SP Michael Ross, Samford, Sr.^

SP Ryan Gallagher, UC Santa Barbara, r-So.*

RP Charlie Beilenson, Duke, Graduate

RP Ethan Bates, Louisiana Tech, Sr.*

RP Evan Ashenbeck, Texas A&M, Sr.

RP Bridger Holmes, Oregon State, Jr.

RP Conner Thurman, San Diego, r-Sr.

SECOND TEAM

C Cole Messina, South Carolina, Jr.

C Jacob Ference, Virginia, Graduate

1B Parks Harber, North Carolina, Sr.

1B Roman Kuntz, Morehead State, Sr.*

2B Christian Moore, Tennessee, Jr.

SS Jalin Flores, Texas, So.

3B Tommy White, LSU, Jr.

OF Vance Honeycutt, North Carolina, Jr.!

OF Nolan Schubart, Oklahoma State, So.

OF Dakota Jordan, Mississippi State, So.

OF Cole McConnell, Louisiana Tech, Sr.

OF Fenwick Trimble, JMU, Jr.

DH Jake Reinisch, Wake Forest, Sr.

DH Nick Lopez, Kentucky, Graduate

UT Carson Benge, Oklahoma State, r-So.

SP Ryan Prager, Texas A&M, r-So.

SP Luke Holman, LSU, Jr.

SP Brett Sears, Nebraska, Sr.^

SP Payton Tolle, TCU, Jr.^

SP Jurrangelo Cijntje, Mississippi State, So.

SP Nick Brink, Portland, r-Jr.

SP Brian Holiday, Oklahoma State, Sr.

RP Wyatt Lunsford-Shenkman, East Carolina, Jr.

RP Nick Wissman, Dayton, Sr.^

RP Ben Abeldt, TCU, So.

RP Izaak Martinez, UC San Diego, r-Sr.

RP Griffin Herring, LSU, So.

THIRD TEAM

C Walker Janek, Sam Houston, Jr.!

1B Tanner Thach, UNCW, So.

1B Nick Kurtz, Wake Forest, Jr.

2B John Anderson, Samford, Sr.

2B Zac Morris, Duke, Graduate

SS Josh Kuroda-Grauer, Rutgers, Jr.*

3B Alec Makarewicz, NC State, Graduate

3B Gage Miller, Alabama, Jr.

OF Ben Watson, Virginia Tech, Graduate

OF Joel Dragoo, Presbyterian, Jr.*

OF Max Belyeu, Texas, So.*

OF Kien Vu, Arizona State, So.

OF Cam Cannarella, Clemson, So.

OF Lawson Harrill, Campbell, r-Sr.

DH Easton Carmichael, Oklahoma, So.

DH Slade Wilks, Southern Miss, Sr.

UT Austin Smith, San Diego, Jr.

SP Aidan Knaak, Clemson, Fr.

SP Nate Knowles, William & Mary, Jr.^

SP Khal Stephen, Mississippi State, Jr.

SP Cam Walty, Arizona, Sr.

SP Aiden May, Oregon State, Jr.

SP Jacob Kmatz, Oregon State, Jr.

SP Drew Beam, Tennessee, Jr.

SP Derek Clark, West Virginia, Sr.

RP AJ Causey, Tennessee, Jr.

RP Tyler Bremmer, UC Santa Barbara, So.

RP Mason Burns, Western Kentucky, Sr.

RP LP Langevin, Louisiana, Jr.^

RP Matthew Matthijs, North Carolina, So.

*-Conference player of the year

^-Conference pitcher of the year

!-Conference defensive player of the year

DeBarge, Langevin Earn NCBWA All-America Honors

Players Mentioned

Kyle DeBarge

LP Langevin

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DeBarge, Langevin Earn NCBWA All-America Honors

Players Mentioned

Kyle DeBarge

LP Langevin

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