May 7, 2008

Garden City, N.Y. - The Adelphi University baseball team had five players earn all East Coast Conference honors, as selected by the conference coaches and announced by the conference office on May 7. Rob Paccione and Bobby Lanigan led the way with first-team selections, while Matt Kenney and Mike Scudero earned second-team honors and Mike Mongiello was a third-team honoree.

Senior catcher Christopher Irwin of Molloy College has been named the ECC Baseball Player of the Year, while Brian Honeyman of Queens College earned Pitcher of the Year honors. Third Baseman Colin Barnathan of Dowling College earned Rookie of the Year honors and Chris Celano of Dowling was named Coach of the Year.

The ECC All Conference First Team included Irwin and Honeyman. Joining them were Bobby Lanigan and Rob Paccione of Adelphi University; Bobby Kay and Mike Sylvester of LIU/C.W. Post; Craig Ross of Mercy College; Keith Kenny, Robert LaRusso and T.J. Greig of Molloy; Evan Okon of the University of New Haven; and John Mazzello and Kevin Connors of Saint Thomas Aquinas College.

The Second Team included Matt Kenney and Mike Scudero of Adelphi; Seth Desautel of the University of Bridgeport; Brian Chenicek of C.W. Post; David Wendt, Eddie Squeri, Chris Caputo, Brent Lotito, and Rich Barry of Dowling; Patrick Walsh of Molloy; Matt Walsh of Mercy; and Vincent Malzahn, Fernando Peralta, Mark Fochesato of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

The Third Team included Dowling's Barnathan. He was joined by Mike Mongiello of Adelphi; Peter Barrows of Bridgeport; Greg Conway of Concordia College; Kyle Walker, Bryan Bonin and Bruce Testa of C.W. Post; Matt Monastero and Chris Piotroski of Dowling; Michael Moras, Jimmy Rivas and Adam Rozum of New Haven; Scott Porter of Molloy; Jamie Quinn of Queens; and Dan McDermott and Mike Aviles of Saint Thomas Aquinas.