SIOUX FALLS — Led by first-team selections Luke Luskey and Nolan Grawe, five South Dakota State baseball student-athletes were honored Tuesday on the 2026 All-Summit League Baseball Team.
A junior designated hitter from Green Isle, Minnesota, Luskey moved up to the first team after earning second-team honors each of the previous two seasons. Over 27 league games, he tied for the Summit lead with 31 runs batted in while hitting at a .337 clip with seven home runs.
Overall, Luskey finished the regular season with team highs of 12 home runs and 53 RBIs to along with a .315 batting average and .575 slugging percentage.
Grawe, a sophomore from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was selected as the first-team third baseman after compiling a .327 batting average with three home runs and 27 RBIs in 27 league games. A second-team honoree in 2025, Grawe led the league this season with 12 doubles and added three triples for a .566 slugging percentage.
Heading into this week’s league tournament, Grawe is batting .328 overall with 18 doubles, six home runs and 47 RBIs.
The remainder of the Jackrabbit awardees were honorable mention selections, including the catching tandem of Luke Jones and Nate Wachter. A junior from Gilbert, Arizona, Jones played in 19 league games, batting .227 and posting a .382 on-base percentage while driving in six runs.
Wachter, meanwhile, split time evenly between catcher and right field, posting a .320 average in Summit League contests with 19 runs batted in. A redshirt freshman from Blair, Nebraska, Wachter was honored as a utility player after ranking third on the team with 32 hits against league opponents.
Rounding out the SDSU honorees was relief pitcher Ty Madison. A senior from Omaha, Nebraska, Madison began the season in the starting rotation, but excelled when moving to the bullpen in late March. In 13 appearances during the league slate, the right-hander compiled a 3-1 record with one save and posted a 2.97 earned run average. He was a consistent strike-thrower, notching 35 strikeouts against only six bases on balls in 39 1/3 innings of work.
South Dakota State is seeded fourth for this week’s Summit League Baseball Championship and will meet top-seeded Oral Roberts in the opening round at noon Wednesday. The four-team double-elimination tournament will be played at Siebert Field on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis.