Five Baseball Players Named All-CCC

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Five members of the Wentworth Institute of Technology baseball team have earned All-Commonwealth Coast Conference honors, as announced by Commissioner Gregg M. Kaye. The all-conference teams and conference's major award winners were announced after a vote of the league's nine head baseball coaches.

Sophomore Joe Hulme (Tewksbury, Mass.) was named Second Team All-CCC, while sophomore Jake Mailman (Medway, Mass.), junior Jon Spitz (Hanover, Mass.), senior Ryan Delgado (Wareham, Mass.), and junior Ben Lewis (Middletown, R.I.) all were named honorable mention all-conference.

Hulme has started 28 of the 30 games he has played in at second base and is presently batting .337 (32-for-95) with three doubles, a triple, eight stolen bases, 24 runs scored, and 18 runs batted in. His batting average is the third highest on the team, has recorded 12 multiple-hit games, and is second in RBI, while leading the team in stolen bases. Hulme equaled career highs with three hits in wins over Cazenovia and Gordon this season. In 61 career games, he is batting .306 (52-for-170) with six doubles, three triples, 12 stolen bases, 39 runs scored, and 27 RBI.

An Honorable Mention All-CCC selection a season ago, Mailman has put together a fine sophomore season, leading the team in almost every offensive category. He is presently batting .398 (39-for-98) with a program record-tying 14 doubles, two triples, 15 runs scored, and 35 RBI. Mailman, who has 10 multiple hit games and nine multiple-RBI games and who has presently reached base safely in 11 straight games, has an on-base percentage of .478 and a slugging percentage of .582. He had a career high five hits in a win over Mass. Maritime and notched a career-high five RBI in a win over Colby-Sawyer. In 62 career games he is batting .337 (65-for-193) with 20 doubles, three triples, 30 runs scored, and 55 RBI.

For the third straight season, Spitz has been honored by the league as an honorable mention selection. The team's leadoff hitter and a mainstay at shortstop for all 30 games, he is batting .354 (40-for-113) with four doubles, seven stolen bases (in seven attempts), 33 runs scored, 11 RBI, an on-base percentage of .402 and is tied for the team lead with 12 multiple-hit games. He began the season having not struck out in his first 48 at bats and has only struck out four times in 113 at bats. Having started 90 of the 96 games in which he has played in over his career, he ranks fourth all-time with a .333 batting average (107-for-321) with 13 doubles, one triple, 30 stolen bases, 73 runs scored, and 37 RBI. His 30 career stolen bases rank him fourth on the program's all-time list.

Delgado, who was an Honorable Mention All-CCC selection as a sophomore, has seen time at designated hitter, catcher, and in the outfield this season, starting all 28 games in which he has played. He is presently batting .308 (24-for-78) with seven doubles, a team-high three home runs, 17 runs scored, and 12 RBI while recording an on-base percentage of .411 and a slugging percentage of .513, which is the second-highest on the team. He tied his career high for doubles in a game with two on two occasions this season and had two home runs and nine total bases in a win over Gordon. In 124 career games (111 starts), Delgado is batting .284 (97-for-341) with 19 doubles, four home runs, 65 runs scored, and 46 RBI. He ranks eighth on the program's all-time list with 80 career walks and is ninth in games played.

Lewis has made nine appearances (seven starts) on the mound and leads the team with six wins (6-2), which are the fourth-highest in a single season in program history. In 46 innings of work, he has a 3.33 earned run average, and has struck out 37 batters, all of which lead the team. In two of his seven starts he has gone the distance and he struck out a career-high eight batters in a win over Cazenovia, his first start of the season. Over his three-year career, Lewis has made 25 appearances (15 starts, three complete games) and is 10-7 with a 4.17 earned run average. He has pitched in 105.2 innings over his career and has struck out 76 batters. His 10 career wins tie him for eighth on the program's all-time list.

At 15-15 overall, Wentworth opens CCC Tournament play on Thursday afternoon. The Leopards, the fifth seed in the tournament, travel to second-seeded Endicott for an opening round contest of the double-elimination tournament, which lasts through the weekend.