This story was published in partnership with BaseballAmerica.com. Click here to subscribe.
This was the second to last week of the regular season for most college teams, meaning Draft prospects are running out of opportunities to make final impressions before conference tournaments and postseason play begin. Several players who endured midseason slumps appear to be trending back up, including Drew Burress and Ace Reese.
Roch Cholowsky, SS, UCLA
With three more home runs this week, Cholowsky is now just two shy of the 23 he hit during his Baseball America College Player of the Year sophomore campaign. His batting average still sits 15 points below last year’s mark, but his overall production is rapidly converging with his 2025 numbers. His slugging percentage is now just three points behind last season, while his on-base percentage trails by 17 points.
Jackson Flora, RHP, UC Santa Barbara
Cal State Northridge handed Flora the roughest outing of his season. In four innings, he allowed a third of the earned runs he’s surrendered all year, though his 1.15 ERA still comfortably leads Division I baseball. Flora escaped a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the first while allowing only one run, but CSUN continued to square him up. He allowed four hits in a two-run second inning, cruised through the next two frames, then gave up just his second homer of the season in the fifth before exiting after his eighth hit allowed. Flora’s fastball remained dominant, but Matadors hitters did damage against both his slider (four hits in 23 pitches) and changeup (two hits in eight pitches).
Cameron Flukey, RHP, Coastal Carolina
Flukey is now three weeks into his return to action, and it’s not getting better. There were encouraging signs early Sunday after he recovered from a leadoff homer by striking out four of the next six batters he faced. But things unraveled in the third inning, when Flukey allowed four singles, walked a batter and committed an error before exiting. He has now allowed nine hits and 10 runs over his past five innings.
Sawyer Strosnider, OF, TCU
It was a solid week for Strosnider, but he’s not having the kind of days where he takes over games like many of his top of the draft contemporaries. He collected one hit Friday, one Saturday and two Sunday, but he’s recorded just one three-hit game and one four-hit game all season, with neither coming since March. In conference play, Strosnider is hitting .229/.346/.457.
Chris Hacopian, 2B, Texas A&M
Hacopian launched a pair of home runs during a 3-for-5 performance Saturday to help Texas A&M beat Ole Miss, though he went just 2-for-9 the rest of the weekend as the Rebels claimed the series. It has been an uneven year statistically for one of the Draft’s more highly regarded pure hitters. Hacopian is still trying to push his batting average back above .300 and his on-base percentage north of .400, while several comparable hitters in this class are flirting with OBPs near .500.
Drew Burress, OF, Georgia Tech
Burress is making an excellent finishing kick to bring his 2026 season much closer in line with his previous two years at Georgia Tech. He homered in each game of the Yellow Jackets’ sweep of Duke. Burress now has six homers in his past eight games, as he’s nearly doubled his home run total since the last week of April. Since March 27, Burress is hitting .464/.535/.809 with eight home runs in 26 games.
Ace Reese, 3B, Mississippi State
Reese had a pair of four-hit games this week. He trounced Nicholls with a pair of homers in a four-hit game on Tuesday. He followed it up by going 4-for-5 with a pair of doubles in Game 2 of the Bulldogs’ series with Auburn. He went 3-for-4 with a home run in Game 3 as well. Reese has done a good job of bouncing back from a slump that saw his batting average dip as low as .304 just a week ago. But even with this recent surge, Reese’s SEC stats (.268/.364/.616) are significantly lower than his overall numbers.
Tegan Kuhns, RHP, Tennessee
In late March, the Vols dropped Kuhns out of the Friday starter role. He actually was pitching pretty well at the time, even if a few mistimed home runs had led to some big innings. But he regrouped, bounced back and once again looks like a frontline ace. Kuhns has allowed one or fewer runs in five of his past seven starts, and he has struck out 48 and walked five in his past five starts. His 15-strikeout performance this week came against one of the best teams in the country. By handcuffing a very good lineup, he set the tone for the Vols’ series win.
Daniel Jackson, C, Georgia
It seems crazy to say this on a weekend where Jackson had four extra-base hits in three games, but LSU went out of its way to try to avoid letting Jackson take over games. He walked six times over the three games. But on a weekend where the Bulldogs clinched the Southeastern Conference regular season title, it was hard to keep Jackson from doing damage. He is now one steal away from a 25-25 season. With three regular season games, the SEC tournament and then postseason still to go, a 30-30 season is possible.
Logan Hughes, OF, Texas Tech
Hughes homered in three of his four games this week, helping Texas Tech to a 3-1 week. It’s been yet another very solid season for Hughes, and his lengthy track record of hitting will serve him well come Draft day. Hughes hit .327/.411/.697 last year with 19 home runs in 52 games. He’s still a few home runs short of that, but he’s slugging a bit better than he did last year and he’s walking significantly more.