COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Texas A&M rising juniors Nick Banks and Ryan Hendrix are two of 29 players who will look to make the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team 24-man roster for the summer as the duo joined the training camp in Cary, North Carolina on Friday.
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After the final 24-man roster is announced on June 24, the team will embark on a 12-game slate that includes games five games against Chinese Taipei, five games against Cuba and a pair of games at the Americas Baseball Festival.
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Banks is coming off an All-America campaign in 2015. Starting 63 of the Aggies' 64 games, he batted .364 with 51 runs, 87 hits, 11 doubles, three triples, 48 RBI and nine stolen bases. He garnered All-America Third Team honors from D1Baseball.com and the American Baseball Coaches Association and was also named All-SEC Second Team.
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In 2014, Banks appeared in 26 games for Team USA, including 23 starts. He hit .241 with 11 runs, two doubles, two home runs and 13 RBI. He helped lead the team to a first-place finish at the Haarlem-Honkbal Week tournament, starting all eight games, hitting .281 (9-for-32 with three home runs and five RBI).
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Hendrix appeared in 23 games for the Aggies, including five starts. He finished the season with a 6-4 record, 3.66 ERA, five saves and 69 strikeouts in 59.0 innings of work. Hendrix was amazing in his 18 games out of the bullpen, going 5-2 with five saves, a 0.73 ERA and 39 strikeouts in 37.0 innings of work. His two losses game in extended relief work in extra-inning games during the postseason, including the Aggies' 14-inning, 2-1 loss to California in which he allowed just one run in 6.2 innings and A&M's 16-inning, 5-4 loss to TCU when he yielded just one unearned run in 4.2 innings.
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The squad will play five games in the tryout phase of the schedule, beginning Saturday night with a game against the Holly Spring Salamanders of the Coastal Plain League.
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After the final 24-man roster is announced on June 24, the team will embark on a 12-game slate that includes games five games against Chinese Taipei, five games against Cuba and a pair of games at the Americas Baseball Festival.
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Banks is coming off an All-America campaign in 2015. Starting 63 of the Aggies' 64 games, he batted .364 with 51 runs, 87 hits, 11 doubles, three triples, 48 RBI and nine stolen bases. He garnered All-America Third Team honors from D1Baseball.com and the American Baseball Coaches Association and was also named All-SEC Second Team.
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In 2014, Banks appeared in 26 games for Team USA, including 23 starts. He hit .241 with 11 runs, two doubles, two home runs and 13 RBI. He helped lead the team to a first-place finish at the Haarlem-Honkbal Week tournament, starting all eight games, hitting .281 (9-for-32 with three home runs and five RBI).
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Hendrix appeared in 23 games for the Aggies, including five starts. He finished the season with a 6-4 record, 3.66 ERA, five saves and 69 strikeouts in 59.0 innings of work. Hendrix was amazing in his 18 games out of the bullpen, going 5-2 with five saves, a 0.73 ERA and 39 strikeouts in 37.0 innings of work. His two losses game in extended relief work in extra-inning games during the postseason, including the Aggies' 14-inning, 2-1 loss to California in which he allowed just one run in 6.2 innings and A&M's 16-inning, 5-4 loss to TCU when he yielded just one unearned run in 4.2 innings.
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The squad will play five games in the tryout phase of the schedule, beginning Saturday night with a game against the Holly Spring Salamanders of the Coastal Plain League.