IOWA CITY, Iowa – The University of Iowa baseball team had eight student-athletes earn Big Ten recognition, it was announced Tuesday by the league office.

Juniors Cade Obermueller and Aaron Savary and redshirt sophomore Reese Moore earned first-team All-Big Ten honors. Redshirt senior Reece Beuter and graduate student Daniel Rogers were second-team selections. Senior Ben Wilmes earned third-team honors. Jaixen Frost was named to the All-Freshman team, and redshirt freshman Max Burt was Iowa’s Big Ten Sportsmanship recipient.

Iowa’s seven All-Big Ten selections give head coach Rick Heller 47 selections in his 12 seasons in Iowa City. Heller has coached at least one first-team All-Big Ten selection in 10 of his 11 seasons when awards were handed out (there were no honors in 2020). Iowa is the only school with all three of its weekend starters earning honors.

Obermueller earned first-team All-Big Ten honors after going 4-3 with a 3.30 ERA in 14 regular season starts. The lefty posted four quality starts and fanned 107 batters over 76.1 innings. His 107 punchouts leads the Big Ten and ranks fourth in program history in single-season strikeouts. The Iowa City, Iowa, native is tied for 14th in the nation and leads the conference in strikeouts per nine innings (12.62).

Savary earned first-team All-Big Ten recognition after going 7-1, including 5-0 in conference play, with a 3.74 ERA in 14 regular season starts. The right-hander recorded a team-high six quality starts and struck out 81 batters in 77 innings of work. He tied his career-high with 10 strikeouts against Washington on May 3.

Obermueller and Savary are the seventh and eighth starting pitchers to earn first-team All-Big Ten honors under Heller.

Moore earned first-team honors after hitting .319 with a team-high 45 RBIs and .577 slugging percentage. He had 27 extra base hits (16 doubles, nine home runs and two triples) during the regular season. The Van Meter, Iowa, native hit .305 in conference play with nine doubles, six home runs and 26 RBIs.

Beuter earned second-team honors after posting a 6-0 record and ranking fourth in the conference with a 3.14 ERA in 13 regular season starts. He held opponents to a .196 batting average and fanned 66 over 63 innings on the hill. Beuter recorded five quality starts, including seven innings of shutout baseball against Washington on May 4.

Rogers also earned second-team recognition in his first year of Big Ten play. The Loras College transfer hit .262 with 11 doubles, seven home runs and 41 RBIs in 47 regular season starts. He posted a standout performance in Iowa’s three-game sweep over Indiana on April 25-27, hitting .600 (6-for-10) with two doubles and a home run.

Beuter and Rogers are the 15th and 16th players to earn second-team All-Big Ten honors under Heller.

Wilmes was the lone Hawkeye to recieve third-team honors. The outfielder out of Johnston, Iowa, hit .313 with 41 RBIs and a career-high seven home runs during the regular season. He is the second Hawkeye outfielder to earn third-team recognition during Heller’s tenure.

Frost batted .316 with 23 RBIs and 12 extra base hits in 37 regular-season appearances. He hit .309 in Big Ten play with 15 RBIs, six doubles and two home runs. He is the fourth Hawkeye to make the All-Freshman team under Heller.

Burt was selected as Iowa’s Big Ten Sportsmanship Award recipient. The distinction is presented to student-athletes who display sportsmanship and ethical behavior, are in good academic standing and demonstrate good citizenship outside of athletics.

The Hawkeyes open Big Ten Tournament play tomorrow, facing 10th-seeded Rutgers at 6 p.m. (CDT) at Charles Schwab Field Omaha. The game will be televised on Big Ten Network and broadcast on the Hawkeye Radio Network.