The Tulane baseball program had five student-athletes recognized as members of the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Division Baseball Team, the organization announced on June 2.
The five selections from Tulane are pitcher Trey Cehajic, pitcher Sam Larson, first baseman Trent Liolios, pitcher Jake Toporek, and pitcher Blaise Wilcenski. This marks the first time each of these student-athletes has received this honor at Tulane.
Cehajic, a graduate student from Shreveport, Louisiana, pitched in 16 games with 11 starts this season. He won three games and recorded 49 strikeouts over 55.2 innings. He was also named American Conference Pitcher of the Week on March 2. Larson, a junior from Lake Forest, Illinois, appeared in 28 games with three starts and led the team with four saves while striking out 54 batters in 41 innings and holding opponents to a .211 batting average.
Liolios played in 52 games with 47 starts at first base. He scored 30 runs on 43 hits including fourteen doubles and three home runs for a total of thirty-six RBIs. Toporek made twenty appearances with seven starts as a graduate student from Dana Point, California; he threw forty-three innings and struck out forty batters. Wilcenski appeared in nineteen games as a graduate student from Waterford, Michigan; he posted two wins and two losses out of the bullpen across forty-two and two-thirds innings while limiting opponents to a .271 batting average.
To qualify for the CSC Academic All-District Team, athletes must have at least a cumulative grade-point average of 3.50 or above and be at least sophomores academically. They are also required to have participated in at least ninety percent of their team’s games or started sixty-six percent as position players or appeared in seventeen games or thrown thirty-five innings as pitchers.
All five honorees now advance to consideration for CSC Academic All-America honors that will be announced later in June. The Green Wave finished their season with an overall record of twenty-five wins and thirty-one losses.
