On the eve of perhaps the biggest day in the sophomore left-hander’s life, Northwest’s Cody Reed was named an NJCAA Third Team All-American on Wednesday.

    Reed  is Northwest’s first baseball All-American since 2008 when Taylor

Walker was named an NJCAA Second Team All-American for a second consecutive year.

    Coming off First Team All-MACJC and NJCAA All-Region 23 honors, Reed’s spectacular

sophomore campaign saw him set six career records and two single-season records. He went 8-3 with five complete games, two shutouts, two combined shutouts and a 2.39 ERA. In 73.1 innings, he struck out a school record 96 batters (38 strikeouts looking) and allowed just 13 extra-base hits.

    A native of Horn Lake, Reed ends his Northwest career as the school’s all-time

leader in strikeouts (161), wins (16), innings pitched (137.2), batters faced (601), starts (23) and shutouts (five). He’s second in career complete games (10) and third in opponent batting average (.219) and strikeouts/7 inning game (8.19).

    With the 2013 MLB First-Year Player Draft set to kickoff at 5 p.m. CST Thursday in New Jersey, Reed is projected by many to go somewhere in the range of picks No. 21 to 46.

    Reed has been projected as high as No. 21 and as low as No. 104 in mock drafts posted by Baseball America, MyMLBDraft.com and by Keith law to name a few. He’s gone to pre-draft workouts for the Texas Rangers, Tampa Bay Rays and Kansas City Royals.

    Reed signed with Ole Miss back in November, but is awaiting the draft to determine his career path.