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WVU’s Clark receives more national honors

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MORGANTOWN --West Virginia University senior pitcher Derek Clark has been named to the D1Baseball All-America Third Team.

It is his second All-America selection this year after also being named to the third team by the NCBWA. Additionally, he was named All-Big 12 First Team, ABCA All-East Region First Team, the Tucson Regional Most Outstanding Player, and an ABCA Division I Gold Glove recipient.

In his first and only season with WVU, Clark went 8-3 with a 3.23 ERA and 91 strikeouts, all of which led the Mountaineers. He also led the team with 97.2 innings pitched which included four complete games, second-most in the country.

Clark becomes the fifth Mountaineer to be named an All-American by D1Baseball, joining first-team selections Alek Manoah (2019) and JJ Wetherholt (2023) and freshman-team honorees Kyle Davis (2015) and Darius Hill (2016).

Overall, Clark is the 27th Mountaineer to be named an All-American, totaling 66 All-America accolades from all publications, 37 of which came in the Randy Mazey era from 2013-24.

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