{"id":156694,"date":"2026-02-09T07:16:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T07:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/156694\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T07:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T07:16:25","slug":"quintanar-and-hughes-named-ncbwa-all-americans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/156694\/","title":{"rendered":"Quintanar and Hughes named NCBWA All-Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">DALLAS \u2013 Texas Tech outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/logan-hughes\/14073\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14073\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Hughes<\/a> was named a Preseason Third Team All-American, while catcher and Blinn transfer <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/matt-quintanar\/14096\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14096\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Quintanar<\/a> checked in on the NCBWA Fourth Team, the publication announced Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">One day after being named a Preseason All-Big 12 selection by a vote of the league&#8217;s coaches, Hughes received his first career All-America honor with his third team selection. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A native of Deland, Hughes hit .327 a season ago for the Red Raiders, launching a Big 12-best 19 home runs and 58 RBIs. The lefty hitter slugged a team-best .697 and hit 11 of his 19 longballs in Big 12 play. Hughes hit .376 in Big 12 contests recording a team-best OPS of 1.196 over the 30 league games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Tech&#8217;s other All-American, Quintanar, arrives in Lubbock after a decorated JUCO career at both Central Arizona (2024) and Blinn College (2025), where he earned Third Team All-American status last season after hitting .411 with 15 home runs and 50 RBIs. Quintanar walked 40 times and struck out just 23 times. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Hughes, Quintanar and the Red Raiders open the 2026 regular season on Friday (Feb. 13) morning against Oklahoma. First pitch from Globe Life Field is set for 11 a.m. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2013 Texas Tech outfielder Logan Hughes was named a Preseason Third Team All-American, while catcher and Blinn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-156694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}