<p>LUBBOCK, Texas Navy junior right-handed pitcher and preseason Third-Team All-American Mitch Harris (Mt. Holly, N.C.) has been selected to the 2007 Brooks Wallace Award Watch List by the College Baseball Foundation, it was announced on Monday.</p>
<p>Harris is among 120 preseason candidates for the award, which is presented annually to the national college baseball player of the year.</p>
<p>The selection committee for the Brooks Wallace Award is comprised of a national panel of preeminent coaches, sports information directors, former winners and beat media who most closely follow the sport. The Wallace Watch will be trimmed to 12 semifinalists by late May, then narrowed to three by the selection committee following the NCAA Super Regionals.</p>
<p>Harris enjoyed a sophomore season in which he became the first pitcher in Patriot League history to win the Triple Crown (wins, ERA and strikeouts). He tied the Patriot League single-season record with 10 wins, established a new Patriot League single-season strikeout record with 113 strikeouts and ranked second in league history with a 1.74 earned run average. The right-hander also was the only pitcher in the Patriot League in 2006 to sport an opposing batting average under .200 (.189) and a WHIP less than 1.00 (0.93).</p>
<p>In his final start of the 2006 season against Coppin State on May 10, Harris hurled the fifth complete-game no-hitter in the program's 111-year history. The right-hander faced only one batter over the minimum and used 90 pitches, 64 of which were strikes, to record Navy's first complete-game no-hitter in more than seven years. Harris struck out 12 batters in that contest, marking a career high and the seventh time he had fanned 10-plus batters in a game during his sophomore campaign.</p>
<p>Harris opened his sophomore year with wins in each of his first-seven starts, marking the first time a Navy pitcher had recorded the feat in 45 years. Over his final-five starts of the year, the right-hander hurler posted a miniscule 0.82 earned run average in 33.0 innings with 42 strikeouts, while holding the opposition to a .123 (14-for-114) batting average.</p>
<p>The product of Mt. Holly, N.C., finished the season ranked among the top-35 pitchers in the country in three categories. Harris' 12.30 strikeouts per nine innings placed him fourth in the nation, while his 1.74 earned run average ranked ninth and his 10 victories tied him for 34th.</p>
<p>The junior will look to anchor a team that returns 13 letterwinners from a squad that finished last season with a 32-21-1 mark. The 32 wins are the second most in school history, while the 20-win improvement over the previous year is the largest in program history.</p>
<p>The Midshipmen will open the 2007 slate with a three-game series against Florida A&M in Tallahassee, Fla., on Feb. 9-11.</p>