NJCBA All-State Teams

Ewing, NJ …Freshman Joe Cirillo (Fairfield, NJ/DePaul Catholic) was named New Jersey Collegiate Baseball Association Rookie Pitcher of the Year by the organization's 17 college division member coaches
 
Senior Anthony Cocuzza (Absecon, NJ/St. Augustine Prep) and junior Patrick Roberts (Hillsborough, NJ/Hillsborough) were selected to the NJCBA All-State First Team, while Cirillo landed on the third team as well as the NJCBA All-Rookie team.
 
Cirillo enjoyed an outstanding freshman season, posting a 6-1 mark and a 3.42 earned run average. He earned the mound decision in his final four starts, all of which came against New Jersey Athletic Conference opponents.
 
In his first collegiate start, Cirillo tossed eight shutout innings in a victory over Centenary College. He followed that up with seven innings, one earned run and five strikeouts in a win over Haverford College. In one of his best outings of the year, Cirillo pitched the Lions to a 4-1 win over first-place Rutgers University-Camden. He went six innings, allowed three hits and struck out six. Two weeks later, Cirillo defeated the top-seeded Scarlet Raptors for a second time in the opening round of the NJAC Championship Tournament.
 
Cocuzza led the team with a .388 batting average, 57 hits and 37 RBI. He also scored 29 runs, laced 10 doubles and was a perfect 13-for-13 in stolen bases. The post-season awards have stacked up for the versatile shortstop. Earlier this spring, Cocuzza was named New Jersey Athletic Conference Co-Player of the Year along with earning CoSIDA Capital One Academic All-District II First Team honors. He was also named to the 2015 ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Division III Mid-Atlantic All-Region Third Team and to the D3baseball.com All-Mid-Atlantic Regional Third Team.
 
 For his career, Cocuzza finished with 188 hits, which ranks 15^th in program history. He also ranks amongst the career leaders in batting average (.342) and doubles (32) and was a perfect 27-for-27 in stolen base attempts.
 
Roberts wielded a heavy stick all season for the Lions and was also named to the 2015 ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Division III Mid-Atlantic All-Region Third Team. He batted .364 with 48 hits, 29 runs scored and 28 runs batted in. Roberts led the team in total bases with 71 as well as triples (3), home runs (4), on-base percentage (.444) and slugging percentage (.538). He also tied a school record with three homers in a game at Haverford College. On the defensive side, Roberts was perfect in right field. He did not make a single error, while securing 40 putouts.