NEW ORLEANS - Three Sun Belt Conference baseball student-athletes were drafted on Friday on day two of the 2016 MLB Draft. Little Rock's Ryan Scott, UT Arlington's Matt McLean and Texas State's Lucas Humpal were all picked on Friday evening.
Scott, the 2016 Sun Belt Student-Athlete of the Year, was first Sun Belt student-athlete off the board on Friday going to the Boston Red Sox in the seventh round with the 208th pick overall. McLean was chosen in round nine with the 268th overall pick, also to the Red Sox. Humpal was chosen just a few picks later with the 271st pick in round nine to the Baltimore Orioles.
Scott's selection at 208 makes him the second-highest Trojan draft pick in program history behind former Trojan Rick Guarno, who went 107th overall in the fourth round of the 2004 draft.
Scott's accomplished 2016 season was one for the record books at Little Rock. Scott became the first Trojan to earn Louisville Slugger First Team All-American honors after he broke Little Rock's single-season records for hits (94), RBIs (66), total bases (154) and batting average (.435), Division I's best. He also broke the program's all-time record for doubles (44).
Scott also earned All-Sun Belt First Team honors after leading the conference in seven different offensive categories during the regular season and earned Sun Belt Student-Athlete of the Week on three different occasions.
McLean, a senior from Plano, Texas, hit .307 after starting in all of the Mavericks' 58 games in 2016. McLean knocked 19 extra-base hits in 2016, crossed the plate 54 times and provided 22 RBI.
Playing two years at UTA, McLean was second on the team in 2015 with a .337 batting average after playing in 51 of 55 games. He recorded a .448 on-base percentage and a slugging percentage of .374. The centerfielder conduced the campaign with a 15-game reaching safely streak, while notching at least a hit in 10 consecutive games to close the year.
McLean's selection is the 60th overall player drafted since the program's conception in 1969 and is the 20th under the direction of coach Thomas.
Humpal is the second Texas State pitcher selected by the Baltimore Orioles in recent years with the club taking Donnie Hart in 2013. He is the highest Bobcat selected since Austen Williams went in the sixth round in 2014.
With Humpal's selection, a Bobcat has gone in the first 10 rounds in six of the last seven seasons. It also marks 14 consecutive seasons in which a Texas State player has been selected in the MLB Draft. It is the 39th time a Texas State baseball player has been drafted since Head Coach Ty Harrington took over the program in 2000. It is the 54th time a Bobcat has ever been selected.
In 2016, Humpal finished second in the Sun Belt Conference in innings pitched and strikeouts, notching 85 strikeouts in 108.2 innings and finished tied for fifth in the conference in wins. In 14 of his 15 appearances this year, Humpal threw four strikeouts or more, topped off by an 11-strikeout, complete-game performance on March 4 that yielded a National Player of the Week award for the Corpus Christi native.
Humpal is top 10 in the school record books in appearances (71) and wins (21) and holds the records in strikeouts with 288 and innings pitched with 364.
Rounds 11-40 of the MLB Draft begins on Sunday, June 11 at 11 a.m. CT.