NASHVILLE - The Trevecca Nazarene University baseball team placed three players on the 2024 D2CCA Baseball All-Midwest Region First Team. Caleb Marks headlines the awards as the 2024 D2CCA Midwest Pitcher of the Year and is on the All-Region First Team. Joey Parliment joins Marks on the first team and Haven Mangrum is a second team selection.

The 2024 Trojans advanced to their second NCAA Division II Midwest Regional and concluded the season with a 33-23 record. They reached the regional with their fifth Great Midwest Championship, claiming the 2024 G-MAC Championship, winning four straight as they did in 2021. It will be their final Great Midwest Athletic Conference Championship at Prasco Park in Mason, Ohio. The Trojans move to the Gulf South Conference in 2025.   

CALEB MARKS | 2024 NOTES

6-1 | JR | P | Murfreesboro, TN | Siegel HS

The Murfreesboro native led the team on the mound with a perfect 8-0 record and a 2.25 earned run average. He turned in four complete games, one shutout and had 99 strikeouts over his 88 innings pitched. He walked just 20 batters and opponents hit just .235 against him. Marks punched out 11 batters on three different occasions this season.

The Siegel Star finished with the seventh best earned run average in all of NCAA Division I baseball and ranked 12th in strikeouts and 16th in complete games for the year.

Marks led the league in ERA, batters struck out looking, and runs allowed. He finished second in strike outs, wins, and opponents' batting average. He complemented those rankings with finishing third in innings pitched and fourth in walks.

CALEB MARKS | 2024 AWARDS

JOEY PARLIMENT | 2024 NOTES

5-7 | SR | 2B | Gordonsville, TN | Gordonsville HS | Columbia State

The Columbia State standout hit .369 on the year with a 1.170 OPS. The Gordonsville native hit 14 doubles, a triple, and 16 home runs. The Gordonsville Tiger alum used his 72 hits to score 55 runs and drive in 67 RBI. He charged a .473 on-base-percentage. His slugging percentage was .697.

Parliment finished first in the Great Midwest in RBI as well as a Top 10 batting average and ranked third in home runs, slugging percentage, and OPS. He also ranked fifth in runs scored, seventh in on-base-percentage,

JOEY PARLIMENT | 2024 AWARDS

HAVEN MANGRUM | 2024 NOTES

6-2 | SR | CF | Goodlettsville, TN | Beech HS | Columbia State | Louisville

The University of Louisville product hit .396 at the plate while playing nearly perfect defense in the field. The former Columbia State standout collected 91 hits with 14 doubles, two triples, and six home runs. The Beech Buccaneer alum scored 60 runs and drove in 47. His on-base-percentage was .453 and was successful on 12 of 13 stolen base attempts.

The native of Goodlettsville was statistically proved to be the sixth toughest to strikeout in all of NCAA Division II this year and finished eighth in hits. Mangrum only went down on strikes 11 times in 230 official at bats.

Mangrum finished first in the Great Midwest hits as well as third in runs scored, fourth in batting average.

HAVEN MANGRUM | 2024 AWARDS

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