Augusta State junior outfielder Shannon Wilkerson was selected by the Boston Red Sox in the eighth round of Major League Baseball’s First-Year Player Draft Wednesday afternoon.

The 258th pick overall, Wilkerson is the highest draft pick in the 45-year history of the Jaguar baseball program. Wilkerson is also ASU’s first draft pick since 2002, when lefthander Mitch Douglas was taken in the 12th round by the Arizona Diamondbacks. His selection also marks the highest a PBC player has been drafted since the Florida Marlins took GCSU’s Matt Goyen in the third round in 2005.

To learn more about Shannon Wilkerson, go to www.aug.edu/athletics

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