FAIRFAX, Va. – George Mason senior shortstop Owen Clyne has been named to the College Baseball Foundation's Brooks Wallace Award watch list, the organization announced on Wednesday.

The award honors the nation's top shortstop and will be presented later this year.  It is named for former Texas Tech shortstop Brooks Wallace, who played for the Red Raiders from 1977 to 1980.  Wallace died of leukemia at the age of 27.

The initial list is comprised of the top 100 shortstops in the nation.  College Basebll Foundation complete list

Clyne, from Wichita, Kan., leads Patriots in batting average (.375), extra-base hits (5), total bases (24), on-base percentage (.468) and slugging percentage (.600), and is tied for first in hits (15), doubles (4), and runs scored (9) through the first 10 games of the season.  He has an eight-game hitting streak that includes three multi-hit games.  In the Patriots 11-2 win at James Madison on Tuesday, March 3, Clyne went 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles and a triple.  He has been perfect in the field on his 38 chances, with a 1.000 fielding percentage and 23 defensive assists.

Clyne is one of three Atlantic 10 Conference shortstops named to the initial watch list, along with Fordham sophomore Anthony Grabau and VCU graduate student Dante DeFranco.

The Brooks Wallace Award is one of four national awards presented by the College Baseball Foundation, along with the John Olerud Two-Way Player, National Pitcher and Buster Posey Catcher of the Year Award.