UTICA, NY – Senior Chris Fratini (Syracuse, NY/Westhill) and junior Dan Orza (Pleasant Valley, NY/Arlington) were both selected to the 2010 American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings All-Region First Team.

Since both players were selected to the First Team, they will now both appear on the national ballot with a chance to be selected as an All-American, which will be announced next week.

It is one of many accolades earned by Fratini this year, as he was also named the North Eastern Athletic Conference Player of the Year and a D3baseball.com All-American.  He started in all 40 Wildcat contests and led the team in almost every hitting category, including batting average (.511), slugging percentage (.950), on-base percentage (.577), at-bats (141), hits (72), homeruns (7), RBI (49), runs scored (44), doubles (13), triples (14), total bases (134) and stolen bases (14).  He broke the single-season program records for batting average, slugging percentage, hits, RBI, runs scored, triples, total bases and at-bats and finished his career as the program's all-time leader in hits, RBI, triples and total bases.  Additionally, the slugger finished tied for first in career homeruns, while being second all time in slugging percentage and stolen bases, third in runs scored, fourth in batting average and at-bats, fifth in walks drawn and tenth in doubles.

Fratini also finished the year as the national leader in both total triples and triples per game and came one triple shy of tying the NCAA Division III record for most in a season, in addition to ranking second nationally in batting average, third in slugging percentage and seventh in on-base percentage. 

Orza also had a fantastic season, as he was named to the NEAC All-Conference First Team and led the Wildcats in sacrifice flies (4) while being tied with Fratini for the team lead in homeruns (7).  He was also second on the team in batting average (.420), slugging percentage (.679), hits (.500), RBI (45), runs scored (40), doubles (11), total bases (89) and walks drawn (20).

The Wildcats finished 19-21 overall and won the NEAC West divisional championship after entering the four-team, double-elimination tournament as the fourth seed.  Fratini was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player after going 8-for-14 at the plate with two homeruns, two triples, eight RBI, eight runs scored, four walks drawn and a stolen base in three contests.