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Jeff Culpepper Earns First Team Freshman All-American honors
June 5, 2002 TUCSON, Ariz. - Gonzaga University baseball players Jeff Culpepper and Eric Dworkis were both named to the 2002 Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American Baseball team as selected by Collegiate Baseball News. Culpepper was a first-team selection while Dworkis earned honorable mention honors. Culpepper, a redshirt freshman from Woodinville, Wash., was selected to the first team after leading the Bulldogs with a .349 batting average. Culpepper split time between right field, left field and third base for Gonzaga finished second on the team with 13 doubles and fourth on the team with 31 RBI. He becomes Gonzaga's first first-team Freshman All-American selection. Dworkis, a freshman pitcher from Bellevue, Wash., was an honorable selection after posting a 4-6 record with one save on the season. Dworkis started his collegiate career posting a 3-0
Culpepper and Dworkis now join current Bulldogs Eric Rodland, Errol Simonitsch and Eric Everson as Louisville Slugger Freshman All-Americans. Rodland was an honorable mention selection in 2000 while Simonitsch and Everson earned honorable mention accolades last season.
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