FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – Wichita State baseball student-athlete
Alec Bohm won the 2016 Coastal Plain League All-Star Home Run Derby title on July 10. Bohm, a member of the Wilmington Sharks, is an East Division All-Star and will start at third base in the game on July 11.
Bohm, who will be a sophomore at WSU in the fall, won the title over Dillon Stewart of the Holy Springs Salamanders.
This past spring for the Shockers, Bohm earned Freshman All-America honors and was a second team all-Valley selection. He hit .303 with 54 hits, 20 runs, 13 doubles, one triple, six home runs and 30 RBI.
The format was different from years past, adopting the MLB Home Run Derby strategy form a year ago in which players get four minutes to hit as many home runs as possible in each round. With a representative from all 16 teams hitting in round one alone the players combined for an impressive 113 home runs.
"I just went out there and took hard swings each time," Bohm said. "I wanted to pace myself and put a good swing on it every time."
He crushed 12 home runs in the final round alone to beat Stewart who had 11 in a tight race.
Bohm, an Omaha, Neb. native, was presented a custom Tucci Lumber bat by Coastal Plain League CEO and Owner Jerry Petitt.
Representing the East alongside Bohm and Stewart was Trey Hair (Edenton / Evansville), Hunter Dolshun (Fayetteville / Maryland-Baltimore County), Christian Campbell (Morehead City / Rutgers), Darian Carpenter (Peninsula / Virginia Commonwealth), Ryan Cox (Petersburg / Kutztown), and Cameron Balego (Wilson / Mercyhurst.)
In the West it was T.J. Nichting (Asheboro / Charlotte), Zach Files (Florence / Florida International), Adan Ordonez (Forest City / North Carolina A&T), Matt Simmons (Gastonia / Gardner-Webb), Zach Almond (HP-Thomasville / Catawba), Brett Auckland (Lexington County / Presbyterian), Colin Fleischer (Martinsville / Virginia Military Institute) and Jameson Hannah (Savannah / Dallas Baptist.)
On July 11, the East and West All-Stars will face-off in the 18th annual CPL All-Star game set to begin at 7:05 p.m. The game will be broadcast live on the Time Warner SportsChannel and streamed live online at www.coastalplain.com.
