Andrew Vaughn will get his chance for a repeat.

Cal's junior first baseman was named one of four finalists Wednesday for the 2019 Golden Spikes Award, the same honor he won last season as the nation's best amateur baseball player.

Out of a group of 25 semifinalists, he joins Oregon State catcher Adley Rutschman, Vanderbilt outfielder JJ Bleday and Navy pitcher Noah Song as the group that will be invited to Omaha, Neb., for the June 13 ceremony to announce the winner.

Vaughn became the first Cal player ever to win the Golden Spikes last season during a sensational sophomore campaign. He's the 17^th athlete to be named a finalist twice, but the first since Vanderbilt pitcher David Price did it in 2006 and 2007.

The Golden Spikes Award originated in 1978, and in 41 years no one has been a two-time winner. Vaughn will have the platform to make his case, with the Bears set to begin play in the NCAA Regionals on Friday in Fayetteville, Ark., against  TCU. That's a 4 p.m. (PT) game that will air on ESPN3.

A national voting committee will have the majority say in who wins, but just as in the semifinal stage, a fan-vote component will make up five percent of the vote. Fans can vote up to 25 times per day at GoldenSpikesAward.com, starting now through June 10.

Vaughn enters the postseason leading the Bears in hitting (.387) and homers (15) to go with 49 RBI in 50 games and a .549 on-base percentage that ranks third in the country.

Those numbers aren't as eye-popping as last year's .402 average and school record-tying 23 homers, but opponents also are pitching Vaughn much more carefully. His 58 walks (23 of them intentional) are a Cal record and tied for eighth nationally. He drew 44 walks in all of 2018.

Lance Blankenship, a Golden Spikes finalist in 1984, is the only other Cal player to make it to the final stage of voting.