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FOUR HIGHLANDERS TO APPEAR IN NJCBA ALL-STAR GAME

June 2, 2005

Courtesy of Mark Mentone NJIT Sports Information

NEWARK, N.J. -- Four members of the 2005 NJIT baseball team will participate in the annual New Jersey Collegiate Baseball Association All-Star Game on Monday, May 30 (Memorial Day) at First Energy Park in Lakewood, home of the Class A Lakewood Blue Claws.

NJIT's selections are seniors Dan Lupo (West Milford, NJ/West Milford), Zach Porcello (Chester, NJ/Newark Academy), and Phil Resciniti (East Hanover, NJ/Hanover Park) and junior Chris Legiadre (Manalapan, NJ/Manalapan). The game's format will pit the Division I All-Stars versus the Division II/III All-Stars in one nine-inning game beginning at 1 p.m. The All-Star Game features a re-vamped format, as for the first time, non-seniors from Division I and II are invited.

Lupo, an outfielder, is second all-time at NJIT in base hits (163) and third in runs scored (97). A career .326 hitter, Lupo was an all-NJCBA selection in 2004. This season, he hit .282 with a homerun, 26 runs scored and 13 runs batted in.

Porcello pitched into bad luck for much of the 2005 season, posting a 3-7 record despite his 4.23 earned-run average. In five of his seven losses, the Highlanders scored two runs or fewer. The right-hander had a 10-12 career record in three seasons after transferring from Division-I Lehigh University.

Resciniti was named NJIT's Male Athlete of the Year after leading the team with a .361 average, four homeruns and 33 RBI. With 125 career hits, he sits fourth on the school's all-time list. He was named first-team all-Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference, second-team all-region, and third-team all-NJCBA.

Legiadre was an all-CACC and all-NJCBA selection for third time as a right-handed pitcher. He went 7-3 with a 3.38 ERA, and in 77 1/3 innings struck out 70 batters while walking nine. He has a career record of 21-7, and will spend his second consecutive summer in the New England Collegiate Baseball League.

NJIT won the CACC regular-season championship for the first time in 2005, posting a 22-20 overall record for the program's first winning season since 1996.