Eddie Reese

Keenan White

2013 D3baseball.com All-Mideast Region Team

Five members of The College of Wooster baseball team were honored on the All-Mideast Region Teams, with D3baseball.com naming Jarrod Mancine, Eddie Reese, and Keenan White first-team selections on Monday and the American Baseball Coaches Association voting Reese and White to its first team, announced late Tuesday night. Mancine and Steve Hagen were recognized as second-team award winners by the ABCA, while Bryan Miller was second-team, according to D3baseball.com, and the ABCA had him on its third team.

Mancine had a breakout junior season as the Fighting Scots' leadoff hitter, highlighted by successfully reaching base (via a hit, walk, or hit by pitch) each of the last 40 games. In 44 overall starts, he batted a team-high .392 plus added 25 walks and seven hit by pitches as part of a .481 on-base percentage. Mancine was a significant factor on the base paths, scoring 45 runs and stealing bases 12 times, and the left fielder/centerfielder also tallied 11 doubles, three triples, a home run, and 25 RBI.

Reese, who was on the 2012 ABCA All-Mideast Region Third Team, excelled at the plate throughout this spring, finishing at a .370 clip with 22 doubles, four triples, eight home runs, and 54 RBI. The junior standout led Wooster in all of those categories, except for batting average, and the 22 doubles tied for the sixth-most in team history. Reese, the second baseman, paced the squad in walks (30) and slugging (.682), and he concluded 2013 on a 13-game hitting streak.

White capped his career with his best season, as the senior southpaw was in top form after missing most of last year due to injury. The ace of the pitching staff, White went 12-2 with a 2.90 ERA and struck out 85 during 80.2 innings pitched, while walking just 14. He won 11 of 12 starts, and split decisions in two of his three middle relief appearances, adding up to the 12 wins that tied for the third-most in school history. White's 85 strikeouts ranked as the ninth-best total by a Scot.

Hagen, a durable and versatile junior right-hander, was used regularly as both a starter (10 games) and reliever (8 appearances), accumulating an 8-3 record, one save, 2.56 ERA, and 61 strikeouts over 91.1 innings pitched, which tied for the eighth-most innings in team history. Three of Wooster's season highlights came with Hagen on the mound. He became the first NCAA Div. III pitcher since 1997 to go 14.0 innings in a single-game, no-hitting Oberlin College from the 4th to the 13th inning before being tagged with a hard-luck 3-1 loss in the 14th. In the winners' bracket game at the North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament, Hagen earned the win over Allegheny College, yielding zero earned runs (one unearned) in six innings, and he went all nine innings of a 3-2 victory over Penn State Behrend in the NCAA Div. III Championship.

Miller was the starting catcher for 36 of the Scots' 45 games and an offensive sparkplug. Despite batting out of the No. 9 hole in the lineup, he finished as the squad's second-leading hitter at .386 and repeatedly came up with clutch hits as he rated third on the team with 29 RBI. Miller scored 31 runs on the year and also tallied six steals, five doubles, and five sacrifice bunts. Defensively, he compiled a .977 fielding percentage and 34 assists, 12 of which came on stolen base attempts.

This group led Wooster to a 33-12 record and a second-straight NCAC championship. With the latter, the Scots earned a bid to the NCAA Div. III Championship, where they went 1-2 at the Mideast Regional.