Baseball | 5/28/2025 10:27:07 AM
Ten Empire 8 baseball student-athletes earned All-Region honors, as D3baseball.com announced their 2025 All-New York Region teams. 2025 Empire 8 Player of the Year Zach Eldred and Coach of the Year Justin Beach from SUNY Brockport headline the selections as Region III Player and Coach of the Year. In addition, two players from 2025 Empire 8 Champion SUNY Brockport were honored, while Houghton University had three players, Russell Sage College and St. John Fisher University had a pair of players and Utica University and Keuka College had one player earn All-Region plaudits.
The D3baseball.com selections Players were nominated for these awards by the Sports Information Directors at the various schools.
Below are all of the Empire 8 All-Region selections.
2025 D3baseball.com Region III Selections
First Team
Qingyand Feng, Jr., 3B, Houghton (Qianjiang, China/Nanjing Dongshan Foreign Language School)
Zach Eldred, Gr., UT, Brockport (East Greenbush, NY/Columbia)
Anthony Lapine, Sr., P, Brockport (Liverpool, NY/Liverpool)
Second Team
Christian Tortorici, Jr., C, Houghton (Schenectady, NY/Schalmont)
Kanta Ueno, Jr., 2B, Houghton (Omura, Nagasaki, Japan/Omura)
Zachary Figueras, Sr., SS, Russell Sage (Apopka, FL/Windermere)
Mario Cubello, Sr., OF, St. John Fisher (Bethlehem, NY/Glenmont)
Peyton Newton, Jr., P, Utica (Weedsport, NY/Weedsport)
Third Team
Jack Griffin, Jr., 1B, St. John Fisher (Clifton Park, NY/Shenendehowa)
Kyle Wood, Sr., 3B, Keuka (Newark, NY/Newark/Onondaga C.C.)
James Lubanski, Gr., DH, Russell Sage (Port Washington, NY/Paul D. Schreiber/Husson)
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