SUNY Cortland junior pitcher Matt Tone (Rochester/Irondequoit) was selected to the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings Division III All-America third team for the 2009 season.

Tone is also one of five Cortland players who earned ABCA All-New York Region honors. Tone and junior catcher Andersen Gardner (Fairport) were on the first team, senior outfielder Mike Avery (Cortland) and junior first baseman Kevin Jackson (Wappingers Falls/Roy C. Ketcham) were on the second team and sophomore outfielder Jason Simone (Utica/Thomas R. Proctor) was a third team selection.

Tone earned All-America honors for the second straight season. He was an ABCA second team selection as a sophomore last spring. This season, Tone finished 8-0 with a 3.07 earned run average in 11 appearances, all starts. He allowed 64 hits and struck out 84 batters in 67 and one-third innings pitched. Tone has a combined record of 21-1 for a school-record .955 winning percentage through three seasons with the Red Dragons.

Gardner batted .362 and led Cortland with a .512 on-base percentage and a .646 slugging percentage in 42 games, 41 as a starter. He led the Red Dragons with seven homers, 48 runs scored and 31 walks and also recorded six doubles, five triples, 29 RBI and 10 stolen bases. Defensively, he threw out 13 of 51 potential base stealers.

Avery finished the season with a .388 batting average in 45 games. He led the team with 14 doubles and also totaled three triples, 26 RBI, 38 runs scored and nine steals.

Jackson, who started the season as an outfielder but moved to first base in the middle of the year, batted .386 with two homers and a team-high 40 RBI. He scored 38 runs and also recorded five doubles, two triples, 18 walks and six steals in 44 games.

Simone hit .359 in 40 contests, 39 as a starter. He led Cortland with seven triples and 18 stolen bases, and was third with 33 RBI. He also finished with eight doubles, a homer and 34 runs scored.

Cortland finished the season with a 31-14 record. The Red Dragons won their fifth straight State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) title and made their 17th straight NCAA tournament appearance – the longest active streak nationally in Division III.