A quartet of All-North Coast Athletic Conference honors were awarded to members of The College of Wooster baseball team on Thursday. Senior designated hitter
Ryan Kramer and senior catcher
Colin Leslie were first-team selections, first-year
Owen Sherrill earned second-team status at utility, and sophomore
Dame Frayne was voted a third-team pitcher.
Kramer earned All-NCAC status for the third time and second as a first-team selection. The star senior batted .357 (41-for-115) with a team-high 40 RBI and 14 homers this spring. He added 30 runs, 24 walks, and seven doubles, sported a team-leading .783 slugging percentage, and reached base safely 47 percent of the time. Kramer was voted the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Div. III Hitter of the Month for February. Kramer is set to graduate Saturday eighth all-time in program history with 181 RBI and 37 homers. His 208 hits rate as the 13th-most in program history.
Leslie debuts on the All-NCAC team after one of the top defensive seasons in the country. The senior picked off 10 runners and threw out 19-of-36 would-be base stealers. Offensively, Leslie hit .317 (45-for-142) and ranked second on the squad in runs (38), RBI (34), and homers (10). Leslie legged out 10 doubles and drew 19 walks for a .443 on-base percentage. With his 10 pickoffs and 19 runners caught stealing, Leslie amassed an astounding 41 assists this spring while exclusively playing catcher. He caught two runners stealing in the nightcap of a March 14 doubleheader with Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg, which came during a run of four straight games with a runner caught stealing.
Sherrill posted the third-highest average on the team this spring at .348 (39-for-112) and he drove in 28 runs while scoring 27 times. The outfielder had 17 of his 39 hits go for extra bases, led by 12 doubles and four homers. On the mound, Sherrill went 1-0 with a 3.55 ERA over seven appearances. He worked 12 2/3 innings and struck out 17. The first-year went 4-for-4 with four runs scored and four RBI in a win over University of Mary Hardin-Baylor on the team's spring break trip and nailed down the save with a scoreless inning, during which he struck out two.
Frayne, a sophomore, is a first-time All-NCAC selection. He led Wooster with five wins (5-2) and posted a 4.34 ERA over a team-leading 56 innings. Frayne struck out a team-high 50 batters and held the opposition to a .233 average against, tops among Wooster pitchers with at least 20 innings worked. Frayne fired a four-hit, seven-inning shutout in Wooster's win over State University of New York at Oneonta. Frayne set down the first eight Red Dragons he faced and faced the minimum through 5 2/3 innings, thanks to Leslie picking off a runner and catching a second stealing. Frayne struck out a high of 11 against Illinois Institute of Technology, a start where he allowed three runs on four hits in six innings.
Wooster went 25-15 this spring, which included an 8-8 mark in NCAC play.
