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FIVE CACC BASEBALL PLAYERS EARN ABCA/RAWLINGS ALL-NORTHEAST REGION HONORS

May 21, 2007

NEW HAVEN, CT - Five baseball players from Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) schools have been named to the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings All-Northeast Region team. The Wilmington College duo of outfielder Jason Rust and starting pitcher Joe Matterer were first team selections. Adric Saxon and Robert Casal of Caldwell College and Frank Quintana of Felician College were second team picks.

Keith Renaud of Franklin Pierce College was honored as the Player of the Year, while Eric Loh of Bryant University was chosen Pitcher of the Year.

Rust, a senior outfielder who hails from Greenwood, DE, led the CACC in home runs and RBI this season with 21 and 62, respectively. He hit .369 for the season along with a league-leading .815 slugging percentage. He blasted two home runs in three games in leading the Wildcats to the CACC Tournament Championship. Rust was also named to the All-CACC and Daktronics All-Region first teams.

Matterer, the MVP of the CACC Tournament, finished the season 12-2 on the mound with a 3.12 ERA. Matterer, a junior from Newark, DE, worked 69.1 innings and allowed 67 hits and fanned 35 while walking only 18. Matterer was a first team All-Conference and Daktronics All-Region honoree.

Quintana was the 2007 CACC Player of the Year and a First Team All-Conference selection. A senior first baseman from Miami, FL, Quintana finished the season hitting .405 with 77 hits and 59 RBI. His 77 hits included 36 extra-base hits and 16 home runs. He led the CACC in on-base percentage (.504), runs scored (59), hits (77), doubles (19) and was second in batting average and home runs.

Casal, a freshman righty from Howard Beach, NY, turned in an outstanding collegiate debut season, leading Caldwell in victories (10), earned run average (3.74), innings pitched (74.2) and strikeouts (75). In his only start at the Northeast Region Tournament, Casal struck out 10 batters while allowing seven hits and four runs in 8.1 innings pitched in the win against UMass-Lowell. He also had 10 strikeouts in an 11-4 win over Felician College at the CACC Tournament on May 11.

Saxon, the conference's Rookie of the Year, led the Cougars with 13 home runs and 62 runs batted in while batting .365 in 40 games. He currently leads the nation in RBIs per game and ranks eighth in homers per game to help the Cougars rank 11th nationally in scoring. A first team All-CACC selection, Saxon had two hits, two runs and an RBI in Caldwell's 9-4 victory over UMass-Lowell in the first round of the NCAA Northeast Region Tournament on May 17.