TicketsCINCINNATI – Three members of the Cincinnati baseball team were picked to ABCA/Rawlings All-Region teams, per an announcement on Tuesday.
Sophomore infielder Quinton Coats and junior pitcher Nathan Taylor were both picked to the first team, while freshman catcher Enzo Infelise was a second-team selection. The last time Cincinnati had three All-Region honorees was 2008 when Dan Osterbrock and Josh Harrison made the first team and Cameron Satterwhite made the second team.
As first-teamers, Coats and Taylor are now eligible for ABCA/Rawlings All-America honors. Those teams will be announced on Friday, June 12.
Coats was named the National College Baseball Writers’ Association (NCBWA) District 5 Player of the Year last Friday. The Olathe, Kan. native turned in one of the best offensive seasons ever by a Bearcat, setting single-season school records in home runs (28) and total bases (183) while tying the single-season RBI record (79). Coats hit .339 and slugged .738 and ended his season ranking among the Top 10 nationally in home runs, total bases, and RBI.
Taylor is the first UC pitcher to earn All-Region honors since Osterbrock in 2008. He earned his third all-conference nod this season and left his mark on the Cincinnati record book, setting career records for wins (22) and strikeouts (276) while also breaking the single-season strikeout record this year (115). As of the end of Cincinnati’s season, Taylor ranked among the Top 20 pitchers nationally in strikeouts.
It’s the second postseason honor in as many days for Infelise, who was named a Freshman All-American by the NCBWA on Monday. He led the Bearcats with a .374 batting average, hitting 10 home runs while adding 48 RBI, 10 doubles, and 38 runs scored. Infelise collected 85 hits in his first college season, the most among all freshmen in the country as of the end of UC’s season. That figure also ranks tied for seventh in a season in school history and are the most hits by a Bearcat since Lance Durham’s record-setting 99-hit season in 2009.