EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Indiana State's Brennyn Cutts (Pitcher) and Grant Magill (Defensive) were among the top award winners on Monday night as the Missouri Valley Conference announced their annual baseball specialty awards in Evansville, Ind.
 
Cutts becomes the third Indiana pitcher to win the Missouri Valley Pitcher of the Year award and third in the last four seasons joining Geremy Guerrero (2021) and Connor Fenlong (2023) to be voted on by the league's head coaches.
 
The Greenup, Ill. native took over a starting weekend role this season after two years as Indiana State's primary midweek starter, as well as one of the top relief arms last season during the stretch run.
 
Cutts finished the regular season with a 6-1 overall mark with a 3.80 ERA over a team-leading 68.2 innings pitched. He was a part of two shutouts on the mound in 2024 and added his first collegiate complete game going the distance in Indiana State's 11-1 win over Bradley.
 
A two-time MVC Pitcher of the Week recipient in 2024, Cutts had an April to remember this season as the junior right-hander went at least 7.0 innings in all four starts against Murray State, Bradley, Illinois State, and Southern Illinois while posting a 0.96 ERA and allowing just nine hits over 28.0 innings pitched. Three of his starts during the month came after ISU lost the series opener on Friday night and he pitched the Sycamores back to even the series.
 
Cutts was a key part of the Indiana State pitching staff that led the Missouri Valley with a team 3.77 ERA and a 288:131 strikeout-to-walk ratio, while allowing opponents to hit just .224 from the plate. He finished fifth in the Valley in ERA (3.49), second in opponent batting average (.190), fourth in strikeouts looking (18) and fifth in Valley wins (4), while not taking a loss on the mound as Indiana State went a perfect 9-0 in Cutts' weekend starts in conference play.
 
Magill was voted the conference's Defensive Player of the Year for the second consecutive season becoming Indiana State's first two-time recipient of the award. He also becomes just the second player in Valley history to win the award multiple times joining Ryan Cermak (Illinois State – 2021 & 2022) to achieve the feat.
 
The reigning ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove winner went mostly unchallenged in another dominant campaign behind the plate in the 2024 season. Magill threw out 12 attempted base stealers in the 2024 season and added three additional pickoffs to keep opponents moving from station to station around the base paths.
 
In conference play, opponents attempted to steal just 12 bases against the Sycamores this season with Magill nabbing six runners. Overall, he allowed a Valley-low 18 stolen bases over 30 attempts this year with just one passed ball in conference play.
 
Teams only attempted seven stolen bases over the final 20 games of the regular season with Magill throwing out five runners, including two against Belmont on May 4. He had a four-game stretch spanning February 25-March 2 against Marshall, Vanderbilt, and Southern Miss where he threw out at least one runner per game.
 
He's a three-time All-Defensive selection at catcher and headlines an ISU defense that led the MVC in conference play with a 0.986 fielding percentage in the 2024 season.
 
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