Four SAC Student-Athletes Named to Google Cloud Academic All-America® Baseball Team

June 6, 2018

ROCK HILL, S.C. (TheSAC.com) – Four South Atlantic Conference student-athletes have been named to the 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-America® Division II Baseball Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

The Division II Google Cloud Academic All-America® program is partially financially supported by the NCAA Division II national governance structures, to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2017-18 Division II Academic All-America® teams.

Headlining the SAC selections are First Team picks Ty Andrus from Wingate and Ben Herring of Newberry. Herring is one of six repeat performers, earning Academic All-America® honors last season as well.

Also, earning All-America® honors were Carson-Newman's Dillon Cate, who was a second team selection, and Coker's Connor Cleary, who was a third team selection.

Twenty of the 33 members of the 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-America® Division II Baseball teams have at least a 3.90 GPA, with nine student-athletes maintaining a perfect 4.00 GPA. The 11 members of the first team have an average GPA of 3.88.

2017-18 Academic All-America® Baseball Team Division II

FIRST TEAM

Pos.	Name	School	Yr.	GPA	Major
P	Jacob Blank (1)	Augustana University	Sr.	3.92	Government
P	Kyle Leahy (1)	Colorado Mesa University	Jr.	4.00	Kinesiology
C	Thomas Yoder	Belmont Abbey College	Sr.	3.93	Mathematics
INF	Justin Childers (2)	Ohio Dominican University	Sr.	3.46	Finance & Economics
INF	Jay Copeland	University of Alabama in Huntsville	Sr.	4.00	Kinesiology
INF	Jared Melone	West Chester University	Sr.	3.91	Accounting / Finance
INF	Collin Nevil (2)	University of Central Missouri	Sr.	3.86	Biology
OF	Ty Andrus	Wingate University	Sr.	4.00	Criminal Justice
OF	Matt Diesel	Felician University	Sr.	3.71	Accounting
OF	Joe Popp	Colorado School of Mines	Sr.	3.94	Mechanical Engineering
DH	Ben Herring (2)	Newberry College	Sr.	3.92	International Studies

SECOND TEAM

Pos.	Name	School	Yr.	GPA	Major
P	Chris Anastas	Slippery Rock University	Jr.	4.00	Secondary Education
P	Dillon Cate	Carson-Newman University	Gr.	4.00	Business
P	Josiah Gray	Le Moyne College	Jr.	3.79	Management
C	Mikey Gangwish	Colorado School of Mines	Jr.	3.52	Mechanical Engineering
INF	Blaine Crim	Mississippi College	Jr.	3.75	Business Administration
INF	Jayden Fleck	Southwest Minnesota State University	Jr.	3.97	Accounting & Finance
INF	Daniel Jahnke	Newman University	Sr.	4.00	Biology
INF	Jackson Kritsch	San Francisco State	So.	3.96	Accounting
OF	Mason Janvrin	University of Central Missouri	So.	4.00	Occupational Safety
OF	Logan Mattix	Georgia College	Sr.	3.66	Marketing
OF	Ryan Williams	California Baptist University	Sr.	3.91	Kinesiology
DH	Aaron Mack (3)	Newman University	Sr.	4.00	Accounting

THIRD TEAM

Pos.	Name	School	Yr.	GPA	Major
P	Dylan Stowell	California Baptist University	Gr.	3.84/4.00	Business
C	Colin Kaucher	Ohio Dominican University	Jr.	3.69	Business Administration
INF	Connor Cleary	Coker College	Sr.	3.93	Social Sciences
INF	Christian Kapeliela	Hawai'i Pacific University	Sr.	3.44	Mathematics
INF	Gianfranco Morello	University of Charleston	Jr.	3.90	Political Science
INF	Jacob Richardson	Southern Arkansas University	Sr.	3.67	K-12 Physical Education & Health
OF	Darian Abram	Washburn University	Sr.	3.93	Kinesiology
OF	Sean Aspinall	Azusa Pacific University	Gr.	3.73/3.88	Accounting (UG) / Accounting (G)
OF	Trevor Kehe	Colorado School of Mines	Sr.	3.41	Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
DH	Matthew Ronai	Merrimack College	Jr.	3.79	Sports Medicine

Google Cloud Academic All-America® of the Year: Jacob Blank, Augustana University

(1) – CoSIDA Academic All-America® first team selection in 2017

(2) – CoSIDA Academic All-America® second team selection in 2017

(3) – CoSIDA Academic All-America® third team selection in 2017