Marifiote Takes Home GNAC Player of the Year
PAXTON, MA — Graduate student Jarrod Marifiote (Framingham, MA) was named the GNAC Baseball Player of the Year and to the All-Conference First Team. An outfielder, he played in 41 games while helping the AMCATS to their second tournament runner-up in three years. He was second on the team in batting average (.407) and second on the team in runs scored (38), hits (61) and led the team with 50 RBIs. He was second in slugging percentage (.633). He added 10 doubles and eight home runs.
The AMCATS slugger ranked in the top-10 in the conference in a number of categories on the GNAC leaderboard, ranking third in hits, second in RBIs and fourth in home runs. His batting average, slugging percentage and on base percentage also placed him in the top-10.
Marifiote is the third AMCAT in the last three seasons to be named the GNAC Player of the Year. During the 2022 season Jason Shell received Player of the Year honors after current graduate student Kosta Drosidis received the honors the year prior. Among the three consecutive Player of the Year honors for Anna Maria, the AMCATS have also taken home 23 All-Conference Team honors in the last three seasons. Five players received All-Conference honors this season.
Senior DH/catcher James Powers (Folsom, CA) was named to the GNAC Baseball All-Conference First Team for the second consecutive year. He earned second team honors in 2021. Powers led the team with a .413 batting average and led the team in runs (49), hits (64) and home runs (10). He was in the top 10 in the conference in batting average, runs scored, hits and led the conference in home runs.
Sophomore first baseman Jeremy Rosenberg (Boynton Beach, FL) was named to the 2023 GNAC Baseball All-Conference Second Team. He was named to the first-team, all-rookie team and defensive team in his rookie season. Rosenberg started in 41 of 41 games and was in the top five on the team in batting average (.351), runs scored (24), hits (52), doubles (12) and RBIs (23).
Graduate student infielder Kosta Drosidis (Holden, MA) was named to the 2023 GNAC All-Conference Second Team. Drosidis was named to the first team in 2019, 2021 and 2022 while also earning 2021 conference player of the year honors and 2019 rookie of the year honors. He was ranked in the top five on the team in batting average (.316), runs scored (32), hits (43), RBIs (28) and led the team with 20 doubles. His 20 doubles led the GNAC and he ranked in the top 10 in the conference in hits, runs scored and batting average.
Sophomore pitcher Nick Choate (Grafton, MA) was named to the 2023 GNAC Baseball All-Conference Second Team following his rookie season where he was named 2022 Pitcher of the Year, Rookie of the Year, first-team all-conference and all-rookie team. Choate went 5-4 on the mound with a 3.08 ERA. He struck out 76 batters while allowing only 32 hits. He pitched a no-hitter in a 7-0 win over conference opponent Albertus Magnus. His 50 conference strike outs ranked him second and his 76 strikerouts overall ranked fourth.
Junior pitcher Anthony Pingeton (Charlton, MA) was named to the 2023 GNAC Baseball All-Conference Third Team for the second consecutive year. Pingeton made 13 appearances for the AMCATS with a team leading eight wins on the mound (8-2) and had a 3.14 ERA. He had 46 strikeouts against conference opponents and 88 overall, ranking him fourth and second respectively. He led the team in strikeouts.
