{"id":108814,"date":"2021-01-08T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=108814"},"modified":"2021-01-07T18:35:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T00:35:35","slug":"perfect-game-names-nikhazy-first-team-preseason-all-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/perfect-game-names-nikhazy-first-team-preseason-all-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Game Names Nikhazy First Team Preseason All-American"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Ole Miss Baseball Left-Hander Earns Second Preseason All-American Nod for 2021 Season<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Doug Nikhazy<\/strong> ended last season as an All-American, and he&#8217;ll enter the 2021 campaign as a First Team Preseason All-American, earning the elite designation from <strong>Perfect Game<\/strong> on Tuesday.<br>\u00a0<br>Nikhazy was previously chosen as a Second Team\u00a0Preseason All-American by <strong>Collegiate Baseball<\/strong>. This is also his second appearance on a Perfect Game All-American team, having earned Freshman All-America honors in 2019.<br>\u00a0<br>In 2020, Nikhazy\u00a0worked to a 3-1 record and 2.35 ERA with 31 strikeouts and nine walks over 23.0 innings pitched. The sophomore out of <strong>Windermere, Florida<\/strong>, went at least 5.0 IP in every single start as the team&#8217;s Friday night arm.<br>\u00a0<br>The 2019 <strong>USA Baseball Collegiate National Team<\/strong> member started his season going 5.1 innings with four runs allowed in Rebels&#8217; only loss of the year in the season opener vs. No. 1 <strong>Louisville<\/strong>, working against the <strong>Cardinals<\/strong>&#8216; ace eventual first-round MLB Draft pick\u00a0<strong>Reid Detmers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nikhazy bounced back and was named <strong>SEC Pitcher of the Week <\/strong>after going 6.0 no-hit innings with nine strikeouts in combined no-hitter of <strong>Xavier<\/strong>. Nikhazy picked up his second win of the year the following week vs. High Point, which sparked a Rebel sweep of the <strong>Keith LeClair Classic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He closed his season with another no-hit outing, notching 6.0 scoreless and hitless innings in rout over <strong>Princeton<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ole Miss Baseball Left-Hander Earns Second Preseason All-American Nod for 2021 Season Doug Nikhazy ended last season as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":108815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[88,17947,17946,1174,7067,9154,655,17949,17948],"class_list":["post-108814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-collegiate-baseball","tag-doug-nikhazy","tag-florida","tag-ole-miss","tag-perfect-game","tag-university-of-mississippi","tag-usa-baseball-collegiate-national-team","tag-windermere"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/000096_040619_Florida_BSB_002200-Nikhazy.jpg?fit=1440%2C811&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}