Baseball Lands Three All-Ivy Selections, Lomuscio and Sluys Named First Team

PRINCETON, N.J. – Joe Lomuscio (West Roxbury, Mass.) and Mark Sluys (Gig Harbor, Wash.) of the Brown baseball team were named First Team All-Ivy, and Dustin Baird (Indianapolis, Ind.) earned Second Team honors, announced Thursday in a vote by the league's head coaches.

Brown posted multiple First Team All-Ivy selections for the third time in the last four seasons.

Lomuscio was a unanimous selection on the First Team after a breakout season for the Bears as the team's center fielder. The sophomore posted a .370 batting average in Ivy League play and tied for the league lead with 37 hits. He also added a .540 slugging percentage and a .422 on-base percentage in league play, scoring 21 runs out of the leadoff spot, and racked up 20 total multiple-hit games during the season. He was recently named a CoSIDA Academic All-District honoree.

Sluys was named to the First Team as a utility player and earned All-Ivy accolades for the first time in his career. The senior tri-captain split time between catcher, first base, third base and designated hitter during the season and finished with a .325 batting average in Ivy League games. Sluys paced the Brown lineup with seven home runs, including five against league opponents, and finished with a .578 slugging percentage in Ivy games.

Baird earned a spot on the Second Team as he collected All-Ivy honors for the first time in his career. The junior right-hander was one of the top relief pitchers in the Ivies and led the team with 19 overall appearances, including 12 in league play, as he finished with a 2.11 ERA in 21.1 innings of work. He limited Ivy opponents to a .203 batting average.

PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Jake Suddleson, Harvard (Jr., OF – Pacific Palisades, Calif.)

PITCHER OF THE YEAR
Christian Scafidi, Penn (Jr., SP – Blackwood, N.J.)

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
* Josh Hood, Penn (Fr., SS – Richland, N.J.)

COACH OF THE YEAR
Bill Decker, Harvard

FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY^
* Christian Scafidi, Penn (Jr., SP – Blackwood, N.J.)
Kumar Nambiar, Yale (Sr., SP – Larchmont, N.Y.)
Alex Stiegler, Yale (Jr., SP – Dallas, Texas)
* John Natoli, Cornell (Jr., RP – Fairfield, Conn.)
* Matt O'Neill, Penn (Sr., C – Morristown, N.J.)
Patrick McColl, Harvard (Sr., 1B – Los Altos, Calif.)
Sean Sullivan, Dartmouth (Sr., 2B – Hopedale, Mass.)
Joe Engel, Columbia (Sr., SS – Downers Grove, Ill.)
Josh Hood, Penn (Fr., SS – Richland, N.J.)
* Steffen Torgersen, Dartmouth (Sr., 3B – Shoreline, Wash.)
* Joe Lomuscio, Brown (So., OF – West Roxbury, Mass.)
* Jake Suddleson, Harvard (Jr., OF – Pacific Palisades, Calif.)
Peter Matt, Penn (Jr., OF – Larchmont, N.Y.)
Mark Sluys, Brown (Sr., UT – Gig Harbor, Wash.)
* Hunter Bigge, Harvard (Jr., DH – Los Gatos, Calif.)

SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY
Josh Simpson, Columbia (Sr., SP – Stafford, Conn.)
Hunter Bigge, Harvard (Jr., SP – Los Gatos, Calif.)
Andrew Gnazzo, Princeton (Jr., SP – Farmington, Conn.)
Dustin Baird, Brown (Jr., RP – Indianapolis, Ind.)
Liam McGill, Columbia (Jr., C – Wakefield, R.I.)
Chandler Bengtson, Columbia (Sr., 1B – Fresno, Calif.)
Chris Adams, Penn (Jr., 2B – Boalsburg, Pa.)
Simon Whiteman, Yale (Sr., SS – Trumbull, Conn.)
Mason LaPlante, Yale (Fr., 3B – Allen, Texas)
Julian Bury, Columbia (So., OF – Mechanicsburg, Pa.)
Matt Feinstein, Dartmouth (Sr., OF – Old Brookville, N.Y.)
Ben Skinner, Harvard (Sr., OF – Moraga, Calif.)
Craig Larsen, Penn (Fr., UT – Toms River, N.J.)
Sean Phelan, Penn (Sr., DH – Devon, Pa.)

HONORABLE MENTION ALL-IVY
Ben Wereski, Columbia (Jr., SP – Orchard Park, N.Y.)
Max Hunter, Dartmouth (So., RP – St. Louis, Mo.)
Will Simoneit, Cornell (Sr., C – Glen Ellyn, Ill.)
Griffin Dey, Yale (Sr., 1B – Pound Ridge, N.Y.)
Jack Chernow, Columbia (So., 2B – Chester, N.J.)
Chad Minato, Harvard (Jr., SS – Huntington Beach, Calif.)
Josh Nicoloff, Columbia (So., 3B – Ladera Ranch, Calif.)
Ben Porter, Columbia (Sr., OF – Newton, Mass.)
Eduardo Malinowski, Penn (So., OF – Spring, Texas)
David Harding, Princeton (Jr., UT – Severna Park, Md.)
Jake Gehri, Yale (Fr., DH – Buckley, Wash.)

* Unanimous Selection
^ First Team Expanded Due To Tie In Voting

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