Wake Forest Athletics
Palmieri, MacDougal Earn First-Team All-America Honors
6/21/1999 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
June 11, 1999
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Senior first baseman Jon Palmieri and junior right-hander Mike MacDougal were both named to the first-team All-America Team selected by Baseball America. Wake Forest was the only school to have two players selected to the first-team squad.
Palmieri, who earned 3rd-team All-America honors as a junior in 1998, finished his career as Wake Forest's all-time leader in hits, doubles, runs scored and RBI. He led the Demon Deacons with a .412 average, 112 hits and a school-record 94 RBI during the 1999 season. Palmieri hit a career-high 17 home runs this year and became just the second player in ACC history to record back-to-back 100-hit seasons. Palmieri was selected in the 14th round by the Anaheim Angels in the Major League Baseball draft last week.
MacDougal, who earned freshman All-America honors in 1997, joined Palmieri on the 1st-team All-America squad. MacDougal led the Atlantic Coast Conference with 13 victories and was tops on the Wake Forest pitching staff with 117 strikeouts in 120 innings. He held opponents to a .203 batting average and he tossed the first no hitter by a Demon Deacon pitcher in 60 years in his 5-0 shutout of Duke in March. He was drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the first round with the 25th overall pick last week, becoming just the second Wake Forest player to be selected in the first round.
Palmieri and MacDougal led Wake Forest to a school-record 47 victories during the 1999 season and helped the Demon Deacons capture their second consecutive ACC Championship. Wake Forest (47-16) advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the second straight season, winning the NCAA Regional at Winston-Salem and moving on to the NCAA Super Regional at Coral Gables, Fla., before falling just two victories shy of the College World Series.
