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Chase Angelle is a three-time All-Southland Conference Academic honoree

Pitcher Chase Angelle was named to the All-Southland Conference Academic first team as a representative from the Lamar baseball team, the league announced Wednesday morning.

Angelle was Lamar’s best pitcher for the season on a 2.01 earned run average and team-leading five wins and strikeouts (65). He moved into seventh place on LU’s career ERA list at 2.86 and led the SLC in complete games (5) and was sixth in innings pitched (98.2).

The Orange native, who pitched in two shutouts, took over as the team’s series-opening starter three weeks into the conference season. He was named an automatic selection to the team after he was voted to the CoSIDA Academic All-District VII team in early May, which recognizes the

nation’s top student-athletes for his performances athletically and in the classroom.

The graduate student earned his master’s in accounting one year after receiving his bachelor’s in the same field; he finished with a 3.82 grade

point average. Angelle is a three-time vote getter for the honor after nabbing second-team votes in 2013 and 2014.

All 13 league teams had at least one representative. The all-academic teams are voted on by the head coaches, sports information directors and

academic/compliance administrators from each SLC university. Student-athletes must possess a 3.0 cumulative GPA, have completed one full

academic year at the nominating institution and participated in at least 50 percent of the team’s competition to qualify for the all-academic squad.