CMS Baseball Places Five on All-SCIAC Teams

CLAREMONT, Calif. - The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps baseball team had five players earn spots on the All-SCIAC teams, with Julian Sanders, Andrew Mazzone and Dillon Martin capturing first-team honors and Adam Dapkewicz and Hamilton Finefrock earning spots on the second team, the conference office announced today.

Sanders earns his way onto the All-SCIAC first team after also capturing SCIAC Athlete of the Year last year. He enters postseason play this year hitting .406 with eight home runs and 46 RBI, and earned a spot on the D3baseball.com Team of the Week after hitting four home runs in a weekend series with Occidental, the last of which provided the margin of victory in an 8-7 win. 

Mazzone hit 19 home runs this season, eclipsing the program record of 14 that Sanders hit last season. He enters the SCIAC Tournament hitting .446 on the season with 52 RBI and has twice been named the SCIAC Hitter of the Week, including this past week after batting 6-for-11 with two homers in a series win over La Verne. He was also selected to the D3baseball.com Team of the Week after hitting four home runs in the series at Southwestern, and had a three-homer game in a 9-6 win over Redlands. 

Martin has had a strong first-year season for the Stags, stepping into the every day lineup at second base and batting .325 with three homers and 42 RBI. He had an 8-RBI game in a win over Caltech, and had six hits and four RBI in the series with La Verne last weekend. He also had a 17-game hitting streak mid-season that was snapped at Whitworth. 

Dapkewicz is in his first season with CMS as a graduate transfer and hit .347 with four homers and 34 RBI during the regular season. He recently had back-to-back walk-off hits to win games, a solo homer to lead off the bottom of the ninth in a 5-4 win over Caltech, and a two-out RBI single in a 7-6 win over La Verne. He also named the SCIAC Hitter of the Week after a 7-for-13, 7-RBI series against Redlands. 

Finefrock has been lights out from the bullpen all season for CMS, heading into the SCIAC Tournament with a 0.64 ERA. He has made 16 appearances and allowed an earned run in only one of them, including throwing 5.1 innings in two outings against La Verne last weekend, picking up the win in the opener. He also got wins with 2.1 innings of hitless relief against Pomona-Pitzer and Southwestern. 

CMS opens the SCIAC Tournament tomorrow with a game at Pomona-Pitzer at 3 p.m. The Stags will then play on Friday on the second day of the double-elimination tournament, either at La Verne or at home against Cal Lutheran, depending on the first day's results.