HAVERFORD, Pa. – Senior Tommy Bergjans of the Haverford College baseball team was named to the D3baseball.com All-Mid-Atlantic Region First Team and All-Mid-Atlantic Pitcher of the Year.
This is the third time that Bergjans was selected to the D3baseball.com All-Mid-Atlantic Region first team (2013-15), but first time that he received the All-Mid-Atlantic Region Pitcher of the Year accolade.
During the 2015 season, Bergjans had a 5-3 record, 1.07 ERA and 111 strikeouts in 67 1/3 innings. At press time, the Manhattan Beach, Calif. native is the NCAA Division III leader in strikeouts and strikeouts per nine innings (14.48). He became the first Ford in program history to strike out over 100 batters in a season and is the Centennial Conference all-time leader in strikeouts. The Fords' pitcher posted eight 10+ strikeout outings and finishes his career with 18 total.
Bergjans was also picked to the All-Centennial Conference first team for the third consecutive season, making him the seventh player in conference history to achieve that mark. He also became the first pitcher in the Centennial Conference to ever win the Pitcher of the Year award three times.
The right hander graduates as the program's all-time leader in lowest earned run average (1.69), lowest opponent batting average (.195), strikeouts per nine (11.91), wins (27), innings pitched (282.2) and most strikeouts (374).