LANCASTER, Pa. – Eight Haverford College baseball players have been named to the 2011 All-Centennial Conference Team as announced by the league office Tuesday afternoon. Senior shortstop Charlie Carluccio and head coach Dave Beccaria were also honored with Player of the Year and Coach of the Year honors, respectively.
Along with Carluccio, second baseman Louis DeRosa, third baseman Mike Galetta, outfielder Jeff Butera and pitcher Colin Sarafin were all voted onto the first-team all-conference list by the league's coaches. The five first-team selections this spring raise Haverford's all-time total to 15.
Second-team honors went to pitcher Bryan Henrick, while outfielder Bobby Bailey and first baseman Jake Chaplin were named honorable mention all-conference.
Carluccio is the first Haverford player to earn player of the year recognition in baseball, and Beccaria picks up the program's initial coach of the year award.
DeRosa, Galetta and Henrick complimented Tuesday's all-conference awards with recognition on the Centennial's academic honor roll listing.
Carluccio was a force at the plate for the Fords posting conference-leading numbers in batting average (.405), hits (60), RBIs (46) and total bases (95). He also produced the league's second-best figures for slugging percentage (.642), runs scored (42), and doubles (15) and finished third in stolen bases with 19. He set single-season team records in hits and runs in 2011 and moved to the program's top spot in career hits (190), RBIs (148) and runs (144) .
Other accomplishments from the Fords' all-league players include DeRosa's single-season team record in stolen bases (34, the most in the conference), Galetta's league-leading 16 doubles which also set a single-season Haverford record, and Butera's total of 36 RBIs which trailed only Carluccio within the conference.
From the pitching mound, Sarafin's 2.79 ERA was sixth-lowest in the conference and his 67.2 innings pitched were the most on the team. Henrick's eight wins set a new team record for victories in a single season and his ERA of 2.53 was third-best in the league.
Beccaria, in his 11th campaign at Haverford, led this year's Fords to their eighth winning season posting a program-best 32 wins, easily surpassing the previous high of 27 set by his 2008 squad. The team's eight losses are the fewest since a 6-7 record in the 1974 season. The 2011 Fords also achieved the program's first national ranking and rose to as high as No. 26 in the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) poll (April 26).