Fullerton’s Nevin Adds 2nd Honor from Magazine

Phil Nevin of Cal State Fullerton earned his second freshman All-American award of the school year Thursday when he was picked to the first team by Baseball America.

Nevin, from El Dorado High School, was also a first-team football selection in the fall by The Sporting News for his work as a kicker and punter for the Titan football team.

He is the only player in the country to be picked for both lists.

Nevin, who played third base, hit .358 with a team-high 14 home runs for Fullerton’s baseball team, which won the Big West Conference. He was second on the team with 52 runs batted in and was a second-team all-Big West pick.

Nevin was 33 of 33 on extra points and made 15 of 21 (.714) field goals for the football team. His field-goal percentage tied a Fullerton record.

All of Nevin’s misses were from 48 yards or longer. He also averaged 39.1 yards punting and was the first-team all-Big West kicker.

Pitcher Pete Janicki of UCLA, a high school teammate of Nevin’s at El Dorado, also made the Baseball America freshman first team. Janicki, a right-hander, was 9-1 with two saves and a 3.63 earned-run average for the Bruins.

Janicki pitched El Dorado to a 1-0 victory over Long Beach Millikan in the 1989 Southern Section 5-A championship game at Dodger Stadium.