Eight MCCC Baseball Players Earn All-Region 19 Honors

5/27/26

Eight MCCC Baseball players earned All-Region 19 honors.  Four players were named First Team All-Region and four were named Second Team All-Region.

Sophomore infielder Jordan Raba (Hamilton, NJ/Nottingham) was named the Region 19 Player of the Year and earned First Team All-Region honors.  Raba hit .497 on the season, the 4^th best average in NJCAA DII baseball.  Raba had 94 hits. 6^th best in the nation along with 76 runs and 50 RBIs.  Raba had 32 stolen bases on the season, 18^th best in DII baseball and his seven triples was 5^th best in the nation.

Sophomore Slade Harrill (New Egypt, NJ/Allentown HS) was named the Region 19 Pitcher of the Year and earned First Team All-Region honors.  Harrill went 6-2 on the season and had 53 strikeouts in 45.2 innings pitched. 

Infielder Shaniel Maldonado (Trenton, NJ/St. Benedict’s) earned First Team All-Region 19 honors.  Maldonado hit .399 this season with 57 hits and 59 RBIs.  Maldonado also started seven games on the mound for Mercer and had 50 strikeouts in 54.1 innings pitched.

Freshman relief pitcher Chad Brewer (Burlington, NJ/Burlington Township) had five saves this season and struck out 28 in 21 innings pitched and was named All-Region 19 First Team.

Sophomore outfielder Mike Amrhein (Langhorne, PA/Neshaminy) was named SEcpond Team All-Region 19.  Amrhein hit .369 this season and finished with 66 runs, 62 hits and 53 RBIs and had 27 stolen bases.

Sophomore outfielder Kevin Stewart (Burlington, NJ/Burlington Township) hit .358 and had 59 hits, 55 runs and 47 RBIs.  Stewart was named Second Team All-Region 19.

Freshman pitcher John Koch (Monmouth Junction, NJ/South Brunswick) earned Second Team All-Region 19.  Koch struck out 59 in 45 innings pitched and went 5-3 on the season.

Sophomore relief pitcher Tony Kownacki (Bordentown, NJ/Bordentown Regional) went 3-0 on the season and struck out 26 in 26.1 innings pitched.  Kownacki was named Second Team All-Region 19.

Mercer went 35-15-1 this spring and won the Region 19 Championship.

For more on these eight players and MCCC Baseball visit: https://www.mccc.edu/athletics_men_baseball.shtml