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W&J'S STANISCIA, MCLAIN EARN ECAC LAURELS (6/22/12)
Washington & Jefferson baseball standouts
Josh Staniscia
and
Kyle McLain
have each been selected to the
2012 ECAC Division III South Region All-Star teams. Staniscia, a
sophomore outfielder, was tabbed to the first team while McLain, a
sophomore third baseman, was a second team honoree.
W&J'S KLINEC EARNS D-III GOLD GLOVE AWARD (5/30/12)
Washington & Jefferson College senior shortstop
Aaron Klinec was recently announced as the Presidents’
first-ever
ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Division III Baseball National Gold Glove Award
winner. Klinec, a Second Team All-Mideast Region and First Team
All-PAC choice, was one of nine players to earn the prestigious
national honor. Klinec moved to the shortstop position this season
after starting the last three years at second base. He made only
six errors in 231 chances for a .974 fielding percentage. His
defense helped W&J (36-10) rank among the national leaders in
fielding percentage (.967, 21st ranked) and double plays (41, 28th
ranked).
PAC PLACES 14 ON 2012 ABCA ALL-REGION TEAMS (5/24/12)
A total of 14 PAC baseball standouts were honored with selection to
the 2012 ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Division III All-Mideast Region Teams,
released the evening of May 24 at the NCAA Division III Baseball
Championship Banquet in Appleton, Wisc. A pair of conference players
earned first team honors: Westminster senior 1B and 2012 PAC MVP
Tim Wiand
of Westminster and Washington & Jefferson sophomore OF
Josh Staniscia.
Second team laurels went to the W&J trio of senior P (and 2012 PAC
Pitcher of the Year)
Dave Trushel,
senior SS
Aaron Klinec
and sophomore 3B
Kyle McLain,
along with senior 1B
Andrew Thole
of Thomas More, junior P
Jared Haller
of Saint Vincent and senior P
Justin Prejsnar
of Westminster.
Klinec was also the lone PAC player to earn an All-Mideast Region
Gold Glove Award. Third team recognition went to the Waynesburg
senior duo of C
Brendan Scioscia
and P
Ben Oviatt,
joined by junior SS
David Kennett
of Thomas More, senior OF
Zach Galasso
of Saint Vincent, junior utility player (3B/RP)
Brad Kubis
of Bethany, and sophomore P
Eddie Nogay
of W&J.
SIX PAC STANDOUTS EARN ALL-REGION HONORS (5/18/12)
The PAC has placed six players on the inaugural
2012 D3Baseball.com All-Mideast Region baseball teams. Leading
the way for the conference were a pair of first team selections:
Westminster senior 1B and 2012 PAC MVP
Tim Wiand of Westminster and sophomore OF
Josh Staniscia
of Washington & Jefferson. W&J senior P
Dave Trushel, the
2012 PAC Pitcher of the Year, was a second team honoree, while third
team laurels went to Thomas More senior 1B
Andrew Thole, Saint Vincent senior OF Zach Galasso,
and Bethany junior P/3B
Brad Kubis as a utility player.
2012 SPRING TEAM SPORTSMANSHIP AWARDS (5/18/12)
The PAC has announced the
2012 Spring PAC Team
Sportsmanship Award winners. The PAC Team Sportsmanship Award
program was started in an effort to recognize and encourage positive
sportsmanship among conference teams. The award is sponsored by the
PAC Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC). This is the fourth year
the team sportsmanship awards will be given out in each of the 19
PAC-sponsored varsity sports.
W&J, WESTMINSTER FALL IN NCAA D-III REGIONAL (5/18/12)
PAC tournament champion Westminster and regular season champion
Washington & Jefferson have each been eliminated from the
double-elimination
NCAA Division III Mideast Regional, hosted by Marietta College
in Marietta, Ohio. The Titans were knocked out following a
3-2 loss to La Roche Thursday. The Presidents survived Thursday
with an
8-0 blanking of Wooster, eliminating the Scots and allowing W&J
to advance to a Friday matchup with defending national champion
Marietta. The host Pioneers eliminated the Presidents with a
9-5 decision.
KUBIS NAMED MAY PAC SAAC SCHOLAR ATHLETE (5/17/12)
The PAC has announced that junior baseball standout Brad Kubis
of Bethany College has been named
PAC Student-Athlete Advisory
Committee (SAAC) Male Scholar-Athlete of the Month for May 2012.
PAC TEAMS OPEN NCAA/ECAC POSTSEASON PLAY (5/16/12)
PAC baseball teams has a rough postseason start on May 16, as
conference squads dropped three opening round tournament contests.
At the NCAA
Division III Tournament regional opening round in Marietta,
Ohio, #5 Westminster dropped a
13-7 decision to #4 St. John Fisher, while #2 Washington &
Jefferson was topped by #7 Manchester
13-3.
Both teams are back in action on Thursday (May 17), with the
Titans facing #8 seed La Roche in a 9:30 a.m. elimination game,
while the Presidents will battle #6 seed Wooster in another
elimination contest at 1 p.m. Finally, Waynesburg saw a furious
ninth inning comeback fall just short as the Yellow Jackets dropped
an
8-7 decision at Penn State-Behrend in the opening round of the
2012
ECAC Division III South Tournament in Erie. After trailing 8-2,
WU plated five runners in the ninth and had the potential game-tying
run on base before Behrend closed the win, ending the Yellow Jacket
season at 22-19 overall.
2012 ALL-PAC BASEBALL TEAMS RELEASED (5/15/12)
The 2012 All-PAC baseball teams and
postseason award winners have been released. PAC tournament
champion Westminster captured a pair of honors, as Titan senior 1B
Tim Wiand was named 2012 PAC Most Valuable Player while
veteran Westminster mentor Carmen Nocera was tabbed 2012 PAC
Coach of the Year. 2012 PAC Pitcher of the Year laurels went to W&J
senior David Trushel.
WAYNESBURG SELECTED TO ECAC TOURNAMENT (5/15/12)
The
Waynesburg University baseball team has been selected to compete
in the
2012 ECAC Division III South Tournament. The Yellow Jackets
(22-18) of head coach Mike Humiston are seeded sixth in the
seven-team, single elimination tournament and will open play on
Wednesday (May 16) with a first round matchup at third-seeded Penn
State-Behrend in Erie beginning at 2 p.m.
PAC PAIR HEADED TO MARIETTA REGIONAL (5/14/12)
For just the second time in the history of the PAC, the conference
has had a pair of teams qualify for the NCAA Division III Baseball
playoffs in the same season. PAC regular season champion
Washington
& Jefferson (35-8) and PAC tournament champion Westminster (28-15)
will compete in the eight-team, double-elimination
2012 NCAA Division III Great Lakes regional hosted by Marietta
College at Don Schaly Stadium in Marietta, Ohio, beginning on
Wednesday, May 16.
The Titans are seeded fifth and will battle fourth-seed St. John
Fisher (29-10) in an opening round contest at 9:30 a.m., while the
Presidents are seeded second and will face seventh-seeded Manchester
(25-19) in a first round game at 8 p.m.
The
complete tournament schedule is now online.
WESTMINSTER CAPTURES 2012 PAC TITLE (5/11/12)
The 2012 PAC Baseball Championship
Tournament concluded on May 12 at Ross Memorial Park in
Washington, Pa., with the second-seeded Westminster Titans posting a
6-0 shutout victory over
top-seeded Washington & Jefferson in the title game. Westminster
completed a perfect 3-0 run through the tournament to earn the
school’s second PAC baseball title and first since the 2005 season
under head coach Carmen Nocera. The championship win belonged
to senior SP Vince Iosue, who fired a complete game shutout
for the victory on the hill, scattering five hits while walking two
and striking out three. With the victory, the Titans (28-15) set a
new school record for wins in a season and earned the PAC's
automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Division III Tournament, while W&J
(35-8), which also set a new school mark for wins in 2012, is likely
in line for one of 16 Pool C at-large berths for the tournament. The
tournament field will be announced on Monday (May 14).
WESTMINSTER, W&J ADVANCE TO PAC FINALS (5/11/12)
Top seeds Westminster and Washington & Jefferson will face off for
the 20-12 PAC baseball title on Saturday at 2 p.m., after posting
wins on day two of the 2012 PAC Baseball Championship Tournament
on Friday, May 10 at Ross Memorial Park in Washington, Pa. The
second-seeded Titans reached the final by virtue of a
5-3 decision over fourth seed
Saint Vincent in Game C (winner's bracket final), while the
top-seeded Presidents advanced out of the loser's bracket by virtue
of elimination wins over third seed Thomas More (2-1)
in Game D and Saint Vincent (10-4)
in Game E. A win by Westminster in Game F Saturday will clinch the
championship for the Titans, while a W&J win would force Game G, to
be played at 5 p.m., to determine the 2012 PAC tournament champion.
ST. VINCENT, WESTMINSTER POST DAY ONE WINS (5/10/12)
The 2012 PAC Baseball Championship Tournament got underway on
Thursday, May 10 at Ross Memorial Park in Washington, Pa., with an
upset victory followed by a defensive gem. In Game A, fourth-seeded
Saint Vincent overcame a 4-2 deficit with three runs in the fifth
and two insurance tallies in the eighth to upset top-seeded
Washington & Jefferson 7-4. The
second game saw #2 seed Westminster prevail in a
2-1 pitcher's duel over #3 Thomas More on a successful
bases-loaded suicide squeeze bunt in the bottom of the ninth. The
Bearcats and Titans will square off Friday at noon in Game C, with
the winner advancing to the PAC title game. At 3 p.m., the first
elimination game will take place between W&J and Thomas More, with
the winner advancing to Game E against the Game C loser at 6 p.m.
The 2012 PAC championship game is scheduled for Saturday at 2 p.m.
W&J TO HOST 2012 PAC CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNEY (5/9/12)
The 2012 PAC Baseball Championship
Tournament will take place this Thursday-Saturday, May
10-12, 2012. The four-team, double-elimination tournament will
be hosted by top seed and 2012 PAC regular season champion
Washington & Jefferson College at Ross Memorial Park in Washington,
Pa. The 2012 PAC Baseball Tournament champion will earn the
conference’s automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Division III Baseball
Tournament, beginning May 17, 2012. Daily PAC Tournament admission
fees are $5 for adults, $2 for non-W&J students and free admission
to W&J students with valid ID. Conference and institutional passes
are not accepted at PAC Championship events. The
complete tournament schedule can
be found here. In addition, the
PAC Sports Network will be providing an audio webcast of all
tournament games at
www.pacstream.net.
FIVE FROM PAC NAMED ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT IV (5/3/12)
Five PAC baseball standouts have been selected to the
2012 Capital One Academic All-District IV team for NCAA Division III,
released today by the College Sports
Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Saint Vincent and
Washington & Jefferson each placed a pair of players: senior IF
Mike Hustava (3.84 GPA, communication) and junior IF Brad
Burkardt (3.68, computing & information systems) for the
Bearcats, as well as sophomores P Eddie Nogay (3.50, English)
and OF Josh Staniscia (3.59, undeclared) for the Presidents.
They were joined by Thiel senior OF Phil Double (3.85,
secondary education/history) on the first team. All five will now
advance to the 2012 Capital One Academic All-America ballot for NCAA
Division III.
HETZER EARNS 300TH CAREER COACHING WIN (4/25/12)
The Thomas More College baseball team
gave head coach Jeff
Hetzer his
300th career victory
on Tuesday (April 24) as it defeated Capital University,
11-3, in a non-conference game in Columbus, Ohio. With the win,
Hetzer's career coaching record is 300-162-3 in 12 seasons at Thomas
More.
2012 BASEBALL SEASON PREVIEW RELEASED
(3/9/12)
The 2012 season preview for
baseball
is now available online.
NOCERA TO STEP DOWN AS WESTMINSTER COACH AFTER 2012 SEASON;
MULLIGAN TABBED TO REPLACE (2/1/12)
Westminster College
head baseball coach Carmen Nocera will step
down following the completion of the 2012 season after 13 years
on the coaching staff and will be replaced as head coach by
current Titan assistant coach Tim Mulligan. The Titan
baseball team has compiled a 228-221-1 record since Nocera has
been in the dugout, as Westminster has made the playoffs 10 of
the last 13 years. In 2005, Nocera coached the Titans to the PAC
championship and was voted PAC Coach of the Year. The 2012
season will make Mulligan's second year on the staff as the
team's pitching coach. He has also worked with the Ohio
Glaciers, Paramount Scouting Bureau, and the Brothers Class "B"
18 & Under team in Youngstown, Ohio. Before coaching at
Westminster, Mulligan was the pitching coach at Canfield High
School in Ohio.
PAC AWARDS TEAM SPORTSMANSHIP HONORS (5/26/11)
The PAC has announced the 2011 Spring PAC Team
Sportsmanship Award winners. The sportsmanship awards are sponsored by the
members of the PAC Student-Athlete-Advisory Council (SAAC), in
an effort to recognize and encourage positive sportsmanship
among the conference teams. The SAAC is a committee comprised of
student-athletes from each member institution assembled to
provide insight on the student-athlete experience.
THOMAS MORE DUO NAMED ALL-AMERICANS; SEVEN
FROM PAC LAUDED WITH ABCA ALL-REGION LAURELS (5/25/11)
Junior 1B
Andrew Thole and sophomore SS
David
Kennett of PAC champion Thomas More College have each been
honored with selection to the
2011 D3Baseball.com All-America teams, with Thole earning
first team honors and Kennett being tabbed to the second team.
In addition, both players joined four others from the PAC on the
ABCA/Rawlings
All-Mideast Region baseball teams. Thole was
the lone first team selection from the conference, while the
Saint duo of freshman 2B
Jason Handley and senior 3B
Sam Schmeltzer each garnered second team laurels. Kennett
was joined on the third team by Westminster junior 1B
Tim
Wiand and Grove City senior P
Cory Metcalf.
Washington & Jefferson junior P
Dave Trushel was the lone
conference selection to the ABCA/Rawlings All-Mideast Region
Gold Glove team.
GROVE CITY'S PATTERSON, THOMAS MORE'S SCHMELTZER NAMED
BASEBALL ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICANS (5/24/11)
A pair of PAC baseball standouts have been honored with
inclusion into the
2011 Capital One Academic All-America College Division Baseball
teams, released today by the
College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Leading the way was Grove City senior second baseman
Andrew Patterson, who earned first team recognition.
Patterson, who recently graduated from Grove City with a 3.96
cumulative grade-point average (GPA) majoring in molecular
biology, became just the third Academic All-American baseball
player in GCC history. He was joined by Thomas More senior third
baseman
Sam Schmeltzer, who was named to the third team.
Schmeltzer, who boasts a 3.53 cumulative GPA majoring in
biology, becomes the fourth Academic All-American diamond
standout for the Saints in the past three years.
GROVE CITY CAPTURES ECAC D-III SOUTH TITLE (5/22/11)
The fourth-seeded Grove City College baseball team
went
3-0 this weekend to capture the championship of the
2011 ECAC Division III South Region Baseball Tournament at
Neumann University. After opening with a
14-7
victory over fifth-seeded Medaille on Saturday, the Wolverines
secured the title with a
5-0
blanking of the top-seeded host school followed by a
3-1 decision over second-seeded Penn State-Behrend in the
title tilt on Sunday. The GCC diamondmen finished the 2011
season at 25-16 overall.
TMC POSTS 1-2 MARK AT NCAA D-III REGIONAL (5/21/11)
The 2011 PAC champion Thomas More baseball team posted a 1-2
record to finish as a regional semifinalist at the NCAA Division
III Baseball Central Regional in Bloomington, Ill. After opening
with a narrow
3-2 loss to the host school and defending NCAA D-III
national champion Illinois Wesleyan, the TMC diamondmen stayed
alive following a
5-3 decision against Ripon before being eliminated following
a
10-4 defeat to Carthage. Thomas More finished the 2011
campaign at 29-9 overall.
2011 ALL-PAC BASEBALL TEAMS ANNOUNCED (5/17/11)
The 2011 All-PAC Baseball Teams
have been released. PAC champion Thomas More took two of the
three major awards, as TMC junior 1B Andrew Thole was
named Player of the Year while veteran Saint mentor Jeff
Hetzer was tabbed Coach of the Year. PAC Pitcher of the Year
laurels went to Grove City senior Cory Metcalf.
TMC ASSIGNED TO NCAA D-III CENTRAL REGIONAL (5/16/11)
The
2011 PAC champion Thomas More baseball team will be the third
seed in the six-team Central Regional of the
2011 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship. The Saint
diamondmen (28-7) will open postseason play on Wednesday night
at 7 p.m. facing host and defending NCAA Division III
national champion Illinois Wesleyan (26-16) in the opening round
of the double-elimination tournament. The Central Region
champion will advance to the D-III Baseball National
Championship at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton,
Wisconsin, May 27-31.
GROVE CITY EARNS ECAC SOUTH PLAYOFF BID (5/16/11)
The Grove City College baseball team has received an
invitation to compete in the
2011 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) South
Championship Tournament. The
Wolverines (22-16) are the fourth seed in the six-team
tournament and will face fifth-seeded Medaille (22-15)
Saturday at 1 p.m. in the quarterfinals at top-seeded Neumann
University. Grove City is making its second straight appearance
in the ECAC South Championship Tournament, as the Wolverines
fell at La Roche in the 2010 quarterfinals. It is Grove City's
third postseason berth in the last four years.
THOMAS MORE WINS 2011 PAC CHAMPIONSHIP (5/14/11)
#3 seed Thomas More captured its
second straight conference baseball title at the
2011 PAC Baseball Championship
Saturday at Cene Park in Struthers, Ohio. The Saints topped #4
Westminster
9-1
in the title game, after the Titans eliminated #1 Grove City
8-4
in the play-in game. With the victory, the Saints have earned
the PAC's automatic bid to the
2011
NCAA Division III Baseball Championships beginning next
week.
DEFENDING CHAMPION THOMAS MORE CAPTURES PAIR, ADVANCES TO
TITLE GAME OF PAC TOURNAMENT (5/14/11)
The 2011 PAC Baseball Tournament
got underway one day late due to rain on Friday (May 13) with
four contests at Bob Cene Park in Struthers, Ohio. Lower seeds
posted wins in the two opening round games, as #4 Westminster
upset #1 Grove City
12-3
in Game A, while #3 Thomas More outlasted #2 Washington &
Jefferson
10-5
in Game B. The defending PAC champion Saints then advanced to
the title game via an
11-4
Game C victory against Westminster, while Grove City eliminated
W&J from the tournament with an
8-5
decision in Game D. Play begins Saturday at 10 a.m. with Game E,
as Grove City and Westminster face off again with the winner
advancing to take on Thomas More for the PAC title in Game F at
1 p.m.
GROVE CITY EARNS TOP SEED FOR PAC TOURNAMENT; GCC TO HOST
2011 TOURNEY AT CENE PARK (5/10/11)
Grove City College has earned the top seed and will serve as
the host institution for the
2011 PAC Baseball Championship Tournament, scheduled for
this Thursday-Saturday (May 12-14). Due to Grove City's
on-campus Commencement exercises, the Wolverines will host the
three-day, double-elimination tournament at Bob Cene Park in
Struthers, Ohio. GCC (21-14, 16-5 PAC), led by veteran head
coach Rob Skaricich, finished in a three-way tie for the
PAC regular season title with second seed Washington & Jefferson
(19-18, 15- 6 PAC) and third seed Thomas More (25-7, 15-6 PAC).
The Wolverines earned the top seed based on combined
head-to-head record tiebreaker between the three schools (GRO
4-2, W&J 3-3, TMC 2-4). Fourth seed Westminster (23-14, 10-11
PAC) rounds out the participants. The
complete tournament schedule is
now online.
TEN FROM PAC NAMED ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT
(5/5/11)
A total of 10 PAC baseballl student-athletes have been honored with selection to the
2011 Capital
One Academic All-District College Division Baseball teams.
Leading the way for the conference were three
first team selections who now advance to the Academic All-America
national ballot in W&J senior P
Pat Kennedy (3.93
cumulative grade-point average, chemistry) and Grove City senior
IF
Andrew Patterson (3.96 GPA, molecular biology) in
District II, as well as Thomas More senior IF
Sam Schmeltzer
(3.53, biology) in District IV. The
PAC dominated the District II second team, with seven of the team's
13 players hailing from the conference. PAC honorees included Grove
City senior C
Marcus Magister (3.49, molecular biology),
the Bethany duo of senior IF
Eric Fudala (3.71, business
administration) and sophomore IF
Brad Kubis (3.54,
biology), Waynesburg sophomore P
Anthony Longo
(3.52, wellness/physiology), Westminster senior OF
Rick
DeBlasio (3.37, political science), W&J senior OF
Andy
Trettel (3.79, business administration) and Thiel junior OF
Phil Double
(3.80, secondary education/history).
SVC'S HENRY NAMED D-III PITCHER OF THE WEEK (5/5/11)
Saint Vincent freshman LHP Max Henry has been named
the NCAA Division III National Pitcher of the Week for the week
ending May 1, 2011 by the
National
Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA). Henry, who
was also named PAC Pitcher of the Week on Monday,
was 2-0 on the week for the Bearcats,
allowing just one run on four hits in 11 2/3 innings for an 0.77
ERA while recording 18 strikeouts. He fired a two-hitter in a
4-1 conference win over Bethany last Monday, taking a no-hitter
into the sixth and setting a new SVC seven-inning record with 13
strikeouts. On Friday, he earned a relief victory with 4 2/3
scoreless innings and five strikeouts in a 7-5 win over
Franciscan.
TRETTEL
NAMED PAC SAAC SCHOLAR-ATHLETE (4/19/11)
Baseball player
Andy Trettel of Washington & Jefferson has been named one of two
Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC)
Scholar-Athletes of the Month for April 2011.
TMC's DARNER IS NATIONAL HITTER OF THE WEEK (4/14/11)
Sophomore RF Ryan Darner of
Thomas More
has earned
NCAA Division III National Hitter of the Week honors for the week of April 4-10, 2011, as voted on by a
panel of D-III members of the National Collegiate Baseball
Writers Association. Darner batted .722 (13-for-18) with two
home runs, two doubles, 11 runs scored and 12 RBIs for the
23rd-ranked Saints, who went 5-0 last week (4-0 in conference)
with double-digit run totals in all five wins. His slugging
percentage for the week was 1.167, while his on base percentage
was .750 (18-for-24). |
