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2008 Baseball Awards
The 2008 Liberty League End-of-Season Awards, announced May 8.

2008 Liberty League Player of the Year
Jay Jay Vanderstyne  Rochester
Senior 2B (Victor, NY)
Vanderstyne batted .437 for the Yellowjackets this season, including a .493 average in Liberty League play. He drove in 32 runs and reached base at a .580 percentage in league games, best among all league players in both categories. His 17 doubles overall set a new team record and ranked second among all league players.

2008 Liberty League Pitcher of the Year
Joe Zongol  Rensselaer
Senior (Flower Mound, TX)
A five-time Liberty League Pitcher of the Week, Zongol leads the Red Hawks in games started, wins, earned run average, complete games, shutouts, innings pitched, strikeouts and opponents batting average. He allowed only six extra base hits on the season, five of which were doubles. He also leads the Liberty League in several categories, including wins, earned run average, innings pitched, games started and shutouts. He allowed one or fewer earned runs in eight of 10 starts, and his 1.71 ERA ranks 21st nationally for games through May 4.

2008 Liberty League Rookie of the Year
Nick Laracuente   Skidmore
Pitcher (Tenafly, NJ)
Skidmore's top pitcher as a freshman, Laracuente allowed more than two earned runs only once in 11 games played. His 2.72 earned run average ranks fourth among all league pitchers while his 17 total runs allowed ranks second. He pitched complete game victories over Clarkson, Union, and Vassar and surrendered only 11 walks in 46.1 innings.

2008 Liberty League Coaching Staff of the Year
Joe Reina   Rochester
Reina guided Rochester to its first outright Liberty League title at 18-4 and earned the right to host the league's championship tournament. The Yellowjackets are 27-11 overall heading into the tournament and have been ranked in the last two ABCA Division III polls. Reina is assisted by Joe Lanning, Andrew Coble, and Dan Pfohl

2008 Liberty League First Team
1B	Ken Carroll		Rensselaer	SR	Shelton, CT
2B	Jay Jay Vanderstyne		Rochester	SR	Victor, NY
3B	Blayne Fuke		Rochester	SO	Kailua, HI
SS	Adam Brown		Skidmore	SR	Morrisonville, NY
OF	Cale Giroux		Clarkson	JR	Cortland, NY
OF	Camden Mamigonian		Rensselaer	SO	Dover, NH
OF	Dan Valentine		Rensselaer	SR	Goshen, CT
OF	Sean Wilkes		Rensselaer	JR	Troy, NY
C	Ryan Sullivan		Rochester	SR	Hilton, NY
P	Pete McEneaney		Rochester	SR	New York, NY
P	Joe Zongol		Rensselaer	SR	Flower Mound, TX
RP	Andrew Novick		Rensselaer	JR	Hopewell Junction, NY
DH	Patrick Reardon		Rensselaer	SO	Troy, NY
DH	Nate Stein		Rochester	SO	Greece, NY
2008 Liberty League Second Team
1B	Matt Holiday		Clarkson	JR	Syracuse, NY
2B	Anthony Ferri		Skidmore	SO	Jersey City, NJ
3B	Ryan Duff		St. Lawrence	SO	Concord, MA
SS	Ed Kahovec		Rochester	SR	Victor, NY
OF	Andy Cannon		Rochester	SO	LaGrange, IL
OF	Greg Carlow		Skidmore	SR	Mystic, CT
OF	Matt Francis		Rochester	FR	Amherst, NY
OF	Christian Spicer		St. Lawrence	SR	Watertown, NY
C	Matt Pisani		Skidmore	SO	Winchester, MA
P	Greg Chojecki		Clarkson	JR	West Seneca, NY
P	Blair Veenema		Rochester	JR	Fairport, NY
RP	Chris Cook		St. Lawrence	FR	Sunderland, MA
DH	Brett Peplowski		Clarkson	SO	Albany, NY

Honorable Mention: Mike Bresett 2B (Clarkson), Dan Brien 1B (Rochester), Scott Carroll 3B (Union), Jim Devine 3B (Rensselaer), Andrew Ford SS (St. Lawrence), Matt Giordano OF (Clarkson), Ari Glantz 2B (Vassar), Jake Groszewski RP (Clarkson), Tim Klein P (Rensselaer), Joel Kocan C (St. Lawrence), Nick Laracuente P (Skidmore), Stevan Slusher C (Rensselaer), Dan Stroud 2B (Rensselaer)