News release from Texas A&M Baseball:
CARY, N.C. – Texas A&M left-hander Shane Sdao has received an invite to the 2024 USA Baseball Collegiate National Team Training Camp, joining fellow teammates Gavin Grahovac and Jace LaViolette.
The USA Baseball Collegiate National Team Training Camp will feature 56 of the premier non-draft-eligible college players for a two-game Stars vs. Stripes intrasquad series in North Carolina on June 26 and 27. USA Baseball will name the final Collegiate National Team–inclusive of an International Friendship Series roster and a Summer League Tour roster–following Training Camp on June 29.
Sdao has enjoyed a stellar sophomore campaign, compiling a 5-1 record to go along with a 2.61 ERA and 0.99 WHIP. The left-hander has made 19 appearances with four starts and has struck out 55 batters in 48.1 innings of work. Sdao has also racked up 11 scoreless appearances, highlighted by a career-best seven shutout innings in a win at Ole Miss, and is holding opponents to a .222 batting average.
Both Training Camp games will be played at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, North Carolina, on June 26 and 27. First pitch of both games will be at 6:35 p.m. ET. The International Friendship Series roster will then take on Chinese Taipei in a five-game series, while the Summer League Tour roster will take on select teams from the Appalachian League and the Coastal Plain League in a four-game slate. The schedule will culminate with a Fourth of July matchup between the two U.S. Collegiate National Team rosters on July 4 in Fayetteville, N.C.