Louisiana Tech Strategic Communications
With the start of the 2025 Conference USA Baseball Championship drawing near, the conference office has announced its All-Conference selections.
Brooks Roberson has been named CUSA’s Freshman of the Year along with being named to the All-CUSA Second Team and All-Freshman Team. Trey Hawsey was also a Second Team All-Conference and All-Freshman, and Sebastian Mexico was also a Second Team selection.
This marks the eighth-straight year at least three Bulldogs were named All-Conference selections and the 10th-straight season with multiple selections.
Roberson, native of Lubbock, Texas, had himself a standout season on the mound in his first season of collegiate baseball. The righty made his debut during the season-opening series against Maine, tossing a scoreless inning with his first college strikeout. Roberson then followed up with 5 2/3 frames of no-hit baseball at Southern Miss, allowing one earned run on two walks with a then-career high of seven strikeouts.
He had seven appearances with at least five strikeouts and went on a stretch from March 16 to April 5 where he allowed just four earned runs in 22 full innings with 19 punchouts. Roberson closed out his final road appearance at Jacksonville State with six full innings allowing just one run on three hits, two walks and a career-high nine strikeouts.
Roberson ended the regular season in the top 10 for opposing batting average (.229), total innings (67.0), looking strikeouts (19), least hits allowed (56) and was top 10 in CUSA-only competition in strikeouts (41), wins (4) and looking strikeouts (13).
Hawsey ended his freshman campaign with nine homers, which currently sits as the fifth-most by a Louisiana Tech freshman since 1994 and is one shy of becoming the fifth freshman to hit double-digit homers in a season. The power hitter from Monroe hit his first career homer in the CUSA opener at Sam Houston before hitting homers in back-to-back games at UL-Lafayette and Middle Tennessee, as well as posting his first multi-homer game against the Blue Raiders.
Hawsey saw a stretch of five homers in six games at the end of April, including a game-tying grand slam in the 10th inning of the series opener against DBU right after the Patriots had hit a grand slam to take the lead in extra innings. In the month of April, Hawsey led the Bulldogs with a .420 average and a staggering 1.425 OPS. He tied Mexico for the most homers with seven during the month and was one of three Bulldogs to collect 20 hits.
Mexico closed out the regular season leading the Bulldogs with a .320 average, 11 homers, 54 RBI, a .996 OPS and a .604 slugging percentage despite only making 42 starts in 49 games this season. His first homer of the year did not come until March 18 against ULM before hitting a pair of triples in the series opener at Sam Houston, making him the first Bulldog since 1990 to achieve the feat.
The left-handed hitting junior got himself off to a hot start in the month of April, hitting three-striaght homers in a midweek UL-Lafayette and both series games against FIU. Mexico went 3-4 with six RBI in the second game against the Panthers before the series finale was canceled due to weather.
Mexico played hero in Game 2 at Middle Tennessee to help the ‘Dogs secure the weekend series. Tech entered the ninth inning trailing 8-3 before the ‘Dogs made it a two-run game following a bases-clearing double by Colton Coates. Following a pitching change and Michael Ballard drawing a walk, Mexico put the ‘Dogs ahead with a no-doubter three-run blast to right field in a thrilling comeback victory.
The Baldwinville, Massachusetts native had himself a career day in a midweek victory over Arkansas-Pine Bluff, hitting his first two-homer game and plating seven RBI with a grand slam and a three-run jack in an 11-6 win over the Golden Lions on April 29.
Roberson, Hawsey, Mexico and the rest of the Diamond ‘Dogs open play in the CUSA Championship with the Jacksonville State Gamecocks on Wednesday, May 21 at 6:30 p.m. CT.