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CWRU Baseball’s Gronski and Frey Headline Season Honors with All-America Selections

CWRU Baseball’s Gronski and Frey Headline Season Honors with All-America Selections

From Case Western Reserve University Athletics

The record-breaking 2014 campaign by the Case Western Reserve University baseball program continues to produce individual accolades as junior third baseman Andrew Gronski (Hilliard, Ohio/Hilliard Davidson) and senior shortstop Andrew Frey (Mentor, Ohio/Mentor) have been named All-Americans on teams released byD3Baseball.com and the American Baseball Coaches Association.

Gronski, the unanimous pick for Mideast Region Player of the Year, has been selected to the D3Baseball.com All-America First Team and the ABCA/Rawlings All-America Second Team. Frey is an honorable-mention pick by D3Baseball.com.

Gronski (.439 BA/6 HR/43 RBI) ranked second in the nation and first in the Mideast Region with a school single-season record 86 base hits. His 123 total bases also rank as the second highest amount in program history. The University Athletic Association Co-Player of the Year and Championship Tournament MVP, Gronski was also a UAA Hitter of the Week and a member of the D3Baseball.com National Team of the Week earlier this season. Gronski's UAA Hitter of the Week award came after one of the best single-game performances in school history. Versus Guilford College (N.C.) on February 22, he homered twice and hit for the cycle as part of a 6-for-7, 7-RBI effort.

In 129 career games played over the past three seasons, Gronski is a .370 hitter with nine home runs, 87 RBI, 20 doubles and 106 runs scored. He maintains the fifth best batting average in CWRU history and ranks fifth in career runs, seventh in hits (181) and 10th in RBI.

Frey (.363 BA/5 HR/58 RBI) ranked amongst the nation's leaders in runs batted in with the second highest total in CWRU history. Also All-UAA First Team, Frey was a two-time UAA Hitter of the Week in April as well as a member of the Capital One Academic All-District VII First Team.

Led by D3Baseball.com Mideast Region Coach of the Year Matt Englander, the Spartans (34-12) appeared in a third NCAA Tournament in four seasons and finished runner-up at a regional for the second year in a row. In addition to the school record for wins, the team reached as high as No. 16 in theD3Baseball.com Top 25 and claimed a share of a second consecutive University Athletic Association Championship.

2014 Spartan Baseball Individual Accolades

Andrew Gronski
D3Baseball.com All-America First Team
ABCA/Rawlings All-America Second Team
D3Baseball.com Mideast Region Player of the Year
ABCA/Rawlings Mideast Region Player of the Year
NCAA Mideast Regional All-Tournament Team
UAA Co-Player of the Year
UAA Championship Tournament MVP
UAA Hitter of the Week (2/24)
D3Baseball.com Team of the Week (3/18)

Andrew Frey
D3Baseball.com All-America Honorable Mention
D3Baseball.com All-Mideast Region Second Team
ABCA/Rawlings All-Mideast Region Third Team
Capital One Academic All-District VII First Team
All-UAA First Team
UAA Hitter of the Week (4/7 & 4/21)