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Eleven From Rensselaer Tabbed With Year-End Awards
May 08, 2008
Press Release posted by RPI Permalink
TROY, N.Y. – The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) baseball team had a league-high 11 student-athletes earn year-end Liberty League awards (http://www.libertyleaguesports.org/awards/baseball), it has been announced. Seven players were chosen to the First Team while four were named Honorable Mention. Additionally, senior pitcher Joe Zongol (Flower Mound, TX/Southington (CT)), one of RPI’s First Team choices, was named the Pitcher of the Year.
In addition to Zongol, First Team recognition went to senior first baseman Ken Carroll (Shelton, CT/Fairfield Prep), sophomore left fielder Camden Mamigonian (Dover, NH/Dover), senior right fielder Dan Valentine (Goshen, CT/Avon Old Farms), junior centerfielder Sean Wilkes (Troy, NY/Catholic Central), junior relief pitcher Andrew Novick (Hopewell Junction, NY/John Jay) and sophomore designated hitter Patrick Reardon (Troy, NY/LaSalle Insitute).
Honorable Mention honorees were senior third baseman Jim Devine (Castleton, NY/Castleton), senior pitcher Tim Klein (Westwood, NJ/St. Joseph Regional), senior catcher Stevan Slusher (Pedricktown, NJ/Penns Grove) and freshman second baseman Dan Stroud (Central Nyack, NY/Nyack).
Zongol, a lefty, is 8-1 with a 1.71 earned run average and 61 strikeouts in 63.1 innings. He has five complete games and a shutout in his 11 appearances (10 starts). Opponents are batting .209 against him. Carroll is batting a team-high .485, including 11 doubles, a triple and four home runs, with 26 runs scored and 37 RBI in 29 games. He has also stolen four bases.
Mamigonian, who has played in 39 contests, is batting .388 with team-highs in home runs (7) and runs batted in (53). He is also third on the team in hits (54). Valentine is one of only two players to have started all 40 games. Currently tied for the school’s single season record in doubles with 21, he is hitting .437 with a team-high 66 hits.
Playing in all 40 games, Wilkes is batting .373 and leads the team in several categories, including at bats (158), runs scored (51), walks (20) and stolen bases (12). Novick has appeared in a Liberty League-high 22 games, going 3-2 with a 3.21 earned run average while Reardon is batting .383 with 14 doubles, a triple and four home runs. He also has 42 runs and 44 RBI.
Zongol is Rensselaer’s fiftth Pitcher of the Year and its first since Paul Louderback in 1998. This is the third All-League honor for Devine, Valentine and Wilkes and second for Zongol, Klein, Novick, Reardon and Slusher.
The Red Hawks, the 20th-ranked team in the nation, finished the regular season with a 30-10 overall record and an 18-6 Liberty League mark. Head coach Karl Steffen and his squad travels to the University of Rochester for the league’s four-team, double elimination tournament on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Robison Field. Rensselaer, the second-seed, opens on Friday at 9:30am against third-seed St. Lawrence. Rochester and Clarkson are the other two teams. All of RPI’s games can be heard live on WRPI, 91.5 FM, and www.wrpi.org.
In addition to Zongol, First Team recognition went to senior first baseman Ken Carroll (Shelton, CT/Fairfield Prep), sophomore left fielder Camden Mamigonian (Dover, NH/Dover), senior right fielder Dan Valentine (Goshen, CT/Avon Old Farms), junior centerfielder Sean Wilkes (Troy, NY/Catholic Central), junior relief pitcher Andrew Novick (Hopewell Junction, NY/John Jay) and sophomore designated hitter Patrick Reardon (Troy, NY/LaSalle Insitute).
Honorable Mention honorees were senior third baseman Jim Devine (Castleton, NY/Castleton), senior pitcher Tim Klein (Westwood, NJ/St. Joseph Regional), senior catcher Stevan Slusher (Pedricktown, NJ/Penns Grove) and freshman second baseman Dan Stroud (Central Nyack, NY/Nyack).
Zongol, a lefty, is 8-1 with a 1.71 earned run average and 61 strikeouts in 63.1 innings. He has five complete games and a shutout in his 11 appearances (10 starts). Opponents are batting .209 against him. Carroll is batting a team-high .485, including 11 doubles, a triple and four home runs, with 26 runs scored and 37 RBI in 29 games. He has also stolen four bases.
Mamigonian, who has played in 39 contests, is batting .388 with team-highs in home runs (7) and runs batted in (53). He is also third on the team in hits (54). Valentine is one of only two players to have started all 40 games. Currently tied for the school’s single season record in doubles with 21, he is hitting .437 with a team-high 66 hits.
Playing in all 40 games, Wilkes is batting .373 and leads the team in several categories, including at bats (158), runs scored (51), walks (20) and stolen bases (12). Novick has appeared in a Liberty League-high 22 games, going 3-2 with a 3.21 earned run average while Reardon is batting .383 with 14 doubles, a triple and four home runs. He also has 42 runs and 44 RBI.
Zongol is Rensselaer’s fiftth Pitcher of the Year and its first since Paul Louderback in 1998. This is the third All-League honor for Devine, Valentine and Wilkes and second for Zongol, Klein, Novick, Reardon and Slusher.
The Red Hawks, the 20th-ranked team in the nation, finished the regular season with a 30-10 overall record and an 18-6 Liberty League mark. Head coach Karl Steffen and his squad travels to the University of Rochester for the league’s four-team, double elimination tournament on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Robison Field. Rensselaer, the second-seed, opens on Friday at 9:30am against third-seed St. Lawrence. Rochester and Clarkson are the other two teams. All of RPI’s games can be heard live on WRPI, 91.5 FM, and www.wrpi.org.