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For the second year in a row, a South Jersey product out of Coastal Carolina has been selected in the first round of the Major League Baseball first-year player draft.
Right-hander Cameron Flukey, a 2023 graduate of Egg Harbor Township, was selected by the Detroit Tigers with the 22nd choice of the first round during Saturday’s first day of the draft from Philadelphia. Last year former Haddon Heights and Coastal Carolina catcher Caden Bodine was the 30th overall selection of the first round by the Baltimore Orioles. Bodine has since been traded to Tampa Bay, where he is competing in Double-A for the Montgomery Biscuits.
The first four rounds in this year’s draft were scheduled for Saturday. On Sunday, the draft will conclude with rounds 5 through 20.
Flukey had an injury-plagued junior season that limited him to seven starts in 2026. The 6-foot-6, 210-pound righthander missed about 2.5 months with a rib injury, but returned in late April. For the season he was 0-2 with a 4.13 ERA with 31 strikeouts in 24 innings. Opponents batted .247 against Flukey.
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His big year came in 2025 as a sophomore when Coastal Carolina advanced to the NCAA World Series championship series before losing to champion LSU.
That season, Flukey was 7-2 with a 3.19 ERA. In 101.1 innings, he struck out 118 and walked 24.
One of his best games in 2025 came in a loss, a 1-0 defeat to LSU in Game 2 of the College World Series. In six innings, Flukey held LSU to four hits and one run in six innings. He struck out nine and walked two.
As a senior at Egg Harbor Township in 2023, Flukey was 6-2 with a 0.45 ERA in earning Courier-Post first-team all-South Jersey honors. He struck out 83 in 45.2 innings.
The last pitcher from South Jersey to be selected in the first round was Mainland right-hander Chase Petty, who like Flukey competed in the Cape Atlantic League. In 2021 Petty was the 26th overall selection by the Minnesota Twins.
Marc Narducci is a freelance reporter for the Courier-Post. He can be reached at [email protected]
This article originally appeared on Cherry Hill Courier-Post: South Jersey's Flukey selected by Detroit in first round of MLB Draft
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