Cal Poly freshman second baseman Matt Jensen has been extended an invitation to the 2009 USA Baseball National Team Trials.

The trials will be held at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, N.C., from June 15-24. Jensen is the first Mustang baseball player to be invited to the National Team Trials.

Jensen (5-10, 190, Clovis, CA), currently sidelined with a fractured clavicle suffered in a game May 2, sports a .375 batting average with 15 doubles, nine home runs and 53 RBI. The Clovis East High School graduate had started 41 of Cal Poly's 42 games before he was involved in a collision with a San Francisco baserunner.

Jensen had a 23-game hitting streak, the third longest in Cal Poly Division I history, before it was snapped by UC Santa Barbara on April 24. He was 35-for-89 (.393) during the streak with 24 RBIs and produced six consecutive two-hit games during the streak.

Jensen, along with Cal State Fullerton sophomore Christian Colon, will represent the Big West Conference at the team trials. On Tuesday, April 21, USA Baseball announced a list of 17 initial invitees which included the Corona, Calif., native. In 2008, Colon led the undefeated USA National Team with 173 plate appearances and was the only player to start every single game playing both shortstop and second base.

The National Team Trials will be comprised of 36 collegiate players vying for a spot on the final 22-man roster to be announced on June 24. The 2009 team will be coached by Tulane University head coach Rick Jones, who previously served as an assistant coach for the red, white and blue on the 1989 Presidential Cup Team and 1990 National Team.

Jones is joined by pitching coach Mike Kennedy (head coach, Elon University) and assistant coaches Dan McDonnell (head coach, Louisville University) and Rob Cooper (head coach, Wright State University; 2007 USA Baseball National Team assistant coach).