Ten Empire 8 Baseball Players Named to ABCA All-Region Teams
Ten Empire 8 Athletic Conference student-athletes were named to the 2013 American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings (ABCA) all-region teams. Five of the ten athletes earned first team honors.
2013 ABCA All-Region
Corey Caswell has started 41 of 42 games played to date in the 2013 season. He is hitting .354 with a total of 52 hits including nine doubles and three homeruns. He has thrown out 22 runners attempting to steal with a .992 fielding percentage.
Tim Locastro has started all 43 games and is hitting .424. Offensively, he has totaled 61 hits, 11 doubles, 32 RBIs and 36 stolen bases so far this season. Defensively, the shortstop has recorded 91 putouts and 136 assists.
Pat Lemmo is 11-1 with a team-low 1.44 earned run average in 13 appearances on the mound. To date, Lemmo has thrown five complete games and struck out 66 batters in 100.1 innings.
John Prendergast is 9-0 on the mound for the Bombers in ten starts this season. He has thrown 68.1 innings totaling 44 strikeouts and ten base on balls.
St. John Fisher junior
Justin D'Amato finished the year with a 7-2 record on the mound and 1.46 earned run average in 11 appearances. D'Amato thre 70 strikeouts in 68 innings of work and held opponents to a .182 batting average.
The following lists Empire 8 players receiving All-Region honors:
First Team
C - Corey Caswell, Ithaca
SS - TIm Locastro, Ithaca
P - Justin D'Amato, St. John Fisher
P - Pat Lemmo, Ithaca
P - John Prendergast, Ithaca
Second Team
C - Nick Flemister, St. John Fisher
2B - Tim Henry, Ithaca
P - Jimmy Wagner, Ithaca
Third Team
SS- Chris Roeder, St. John Fisher
U - Dan Allen, Stevens