Seven members of the Cortland baseball team have earned All-Region 3 honors from the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) or the website D3baseball.com for the 2023 season. Six Red Dragons made the ABCA/Rawlings All-Region Team and five were selected to the D3baseball.com team, led by
Dylan Beers (Woodbury/Monroe-Woodbury) being chosen as the ABCA Region 3 Pitcher of the Year and Cortland head coach
Joe Brown being selected as the D3baseball.com Region 3 Coach of the Year.
Dylan Beers (Woodbury/Monroe-Woodbury): So., Pitcher, ABCA Region 3 Pitcher of the Year and First Team D3baseball
Nick Chemotti (Warners/West Genesee): So., Designated Hitter, First Team ABCA and First Team D3baseball
Adam Mieczkowski (Vestal), So., Outfielder, First Team D3baseball and Second Team ABCA
Mat Bruno (Rye), Gr., Outfielder, First Team ABCA
Will McCarthy (Farmingdale), So., Pitcher, Second Team ABCA
Chris Bonacci (Syracuse/West Genesee), So., Outfielder, Third Team ABCA and Third Team D3baseball
Zachary Kringdon (Larchmont/Mamaroneck), So., Catcher, Third Team D3baseball
Joe Brown - D3baseball Region 3 Coach of the Year (ABCA coaching honors have not been selected yet)
Beers pitched in 12 games, 11 as a starter, and finished with a 9-1 record and 2.42 ERA. In 63 and a third innings he allowed only 36 hits and 15 walks with 65 strikeouts. Beers tossed a no-hitter versus Oswego during the regular season and earned a win versus St. Joseph's (Long Island) in the NCAA regionals.
Chemotti played in 43 games, 41 as a starter. He batted .372 with 11 doubles, two triples, three homers, 37 RBI, 41 runs scored and three steals. He walked 18 times and had a .458 on-base percentage. Chemotti's 18 multi-hit games included three hits in a game four times.
Mieczkowski appeared in 43 games, 37 as a starter, and hit .360 with 12 homers, three triples, six doubles, 47 RBI, 43 runs and a .744 slugging percentage. He also walked 19 times, was hit by pitches 16 times and had a .497 on-base percentage. Mieczkowski's 12 homers were one shy of tying the school single-season record. He homered twice and drove in five runs each in wins over Oneonta and Plattsburgh.
Bruno is an all-region selection for the second straight year; he was an ABCA third-team honoree in 2022. This season he played in 46 games with 45 starts and finished with a .367 batting average, nine homers, 13 doubles, one triple, 49 RBI, 48 runs and 20 walks. He stole 12 bases and ended the year with a .615 slugging percentage and .452 on-base percentage. Bruno went 4-for-5 with two homers each in a win over Oswego and in the SUNYAC championship game versus Brockport. He recorded 21 multi-hit games and he's now Cortland's career leader with 25 homers.
McCarthy made 12 starts this spring and finished 7-1 with a 2.98 ERA. In 57 and a third innings he allowed 56 hits and only eight walks with 31 strikeouts. McCarthy tossed a complete game in an NCAA regional win over 2022 national champion Eastern Connecticut State and a complete-game shutout in a regular-season win over Oneonta.
Bonacci started all 47 games and batted .400 with 70 total hits, including six doubles and three triples. He scored 59 runs, drove in 22, walked 20 times and was hit by pitches 13 times for a .490 on-base percentage. Bonacci also stole 12 bases and did not commit an error in 101 fielding chances (97 putouts, four assists). Bonacci's team-high 22 multi-hit games included a 5-for-5 effort with four runs scored in a win at Brevard.
Kringdon played in 41 games, 31 as a starter, and hit .331 with three homers, three doubles, 21 RBI and 18 runs scored. He threw out eight baserunners attempting to steal and committed only one error in 241 fielding chances. Kringdon went 3-for-3 in a SUNYAC tournament win over Oswego.
Brown earned D3baseball.com regional Coach of the Year honors for the fifth time overall and first since 2019. He led the Red Dragons to a 34-13 overall record and the regular-season SUNYAC title with a 16-2 conference mark. Cortland earned its 30th straight NCAA Division III tournament berth, extending its Division III record. The 30-year streak is now the longest active national tournament streak on any NCAA level. Cortland finished 2-2 in regional action to tie for 17th place nationally.