Otero Earns USF’s 3rd CBF Player Of Week Award

[Brad]

Courtesy USF SID

Otero Earns USF’s Third CBF Player Of The Week Award

TAMPA, Fla. (Feb. 27, 2007) – The University of South Florida’s two-time BIG EAST Pitcher of the Week Danny Otero earned his first College Baseball Foundation National Honor Roll “Player of the Week” award on Feb. 27 following his complete game against Manhattan last weekend.

Otero pitched a complete game on Feb. 23 against the Jaspers, a 3-0 USF shutout. Otero struck out eight of his 31 batters faced (four over a game minimum), walking two and allowing four hits in his third win (3-0) of the season.  

Otero’s feat was the first nine-inning complete game since the 2003 season.  

The Coral Gables, Fla., native, who owns a 0.41 ERA, has pitched 22.0 innings this season, striking out 14 and walking just four.  

Otero helped USF break into the national polls Feb. 26 as Collegiate Baseball Newspaper placed the Bulls 30th in the NCAA Division I poll.

The No. 30 Bulls are off to their best start since the 1986 season, and are 9-1 for only the fourth time in the history of USF baseball (1974, 1982, 1986 and 2007).

The College Baseball Foundation is dedicated to preserving college baseball history and to recognizing standout teams and individuals who have influenced the collegiate game.  

Established as a 501©(3) charitable educational organization, the CBF hopes to not only catalog the sports' history within its newly announced College Baseball Hall of Fame, but to provide an aggressive and enduring advocacy for the college game. It views its primary mission as fostering an appreciation of the historical development of college baseball and its impact on our culture, and increasing public awareness, exposure and generating additional opportunities for college baseball.

The CBF will release a regular National Honor Roll, Feb 13th-May 22nd, saluting the finest performances of the past week's action as nominated by conference and university baseball media contacts.

[JoeB]

Congrats Danny.  Put this loss behind you please.