Felician Athletics - 6/11/09 BASEBALL - Baseball Puts Three On CACC All-Academic Team

RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Felician College baseball student-athletes Anthony Balmos (Egg Harbor Township, NJ/Egg Harbor Township), Jeff Calabrese (Freehold, NJ/Christian Brothers Academy) and Mickey Zudonyi (Holmdel, NJ/Holmdel) have been named to the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Spring 2009 All-Academic Team, the CACC announced today.

In order to be named to the CACC All-Academic team, recipients must have participated in a CACC winter championship sport, be at least a sophomore academically and athletically, have been a student at their current school for at least two semesters, and have achieved a cumulative grade-point-average of 3.50 or higher.

Calabrese, a junior pitcher, is a repeat selection, having also earned CACC All-Academic honors in 2008. He maintains a 3.74 GPA as a business administrator major. He had a 3-5 record and two saves in 15 appearances this season. Calabrese made the all-CACC first team in 2007 as a reliever.

Sophomores Balmos and Zudonyi qualified in their first year of eligibility for the all-academic squad. Balmos, an outfielder, carries a 3.68 GPA while majoring in accounting. He batted .267 with a home run in 29 games. Zudonyi, an all-region second-baseman, is a marketing/management major and owns a GPA of 3.52. In 47 games, he hit .307 with three homers, 42 runs scored, 27 runs batted in, and 20 stolen bases.

The three players join Hope Van Dyke of the softball team as spring honorees. The complete 2008-09 CACC Spring All-Academic team can be viewed at . Felician finished 2008-09 with 22 Academic All-CACC performers.