BEREA, OHIO -- Five Baldwin Wallace University baseball student-athletes have been named to the 2013 All-Ohio Athletic Conference team. They are senior 2012 CAPITAL ONE Academic All-American left fielder Brendan Toughey (East Amherst, N.Y./St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute) and freshman second baseman Mark Zimmerman (Akron/Green) on the first team, junior third baseman Brad Gugliotta (Twinsburg) and sophomore right fielder/ designated hitter Alex Green (Pickerington/North) made the second team and senior "ace" pitcher Pat Havens (Twinsburg) received honorable mention honors.
The quintet were keys to a Yellow Jacket team that has compiled a 27-13 overall record this season as well as a 54-26 mark the past two seasons to both establish a school single-season record for victories with 27 in 2012 and tie it again this season.
Toughey, who carries a 3.94 grade point average in BW's 3:2 Master's of Accounting Program, is a four-year starter who earned first-team CAPITAL ONE Academic All-America honors a year ago in addition to being a second-team All-Ohio Athletic Conference and third-team Division III All-Mideast Region selection as well as being Academic All-OAC and a first-team CAPITAL ONE Academic All-District VII choice.
This season, Toughey had his finest season as a collegian by batting a team-leading .410 (66-for-161) with a single-season school-record 66 runs scored. He led the team in at-bats, base hits, runs scored, doubles (13), home runs (4), stolen bases (20 in 22 attempts) and both slugging and on-base average. Toughey also was perfect in the field. He was named to the NCBWA (National Collegiate Baseball Writer's Association) Division III "Team of the Week".
For his career, Toughey played in 130 games and started 120, hit .356 (161-for-452) with a school career-record 153 runs scored, 31 doubles, six triples, five homers, 65 RBI, 54 stolen bases in 56 attempts (.964 efficiency), a .959 fielding average with a .485 slugging average and .459 on-base average.
Zimmerman played his first season at BW this spring and hit .324 (35-for-108) with 19 runs scored, eight doubles, one triple, one home run, 23 runs batted-in and seven stolen bases in nine attempts. He also was solid in the field as he made just four errors in 135 total chances for a .970 fielding average.
Gugliotta also had having his finest season as a collegian. The accounting and finance major who carries a 3.49 grade average, split time at second and third base last spring and blossomed into one of the OAC's top hitters this season.
Gugliotta hit .383 (51-for-133) with 37 runs scored, seven doubles, one triple, a team-leading 38 RBI and 11 stolen bases in 13 attempts.. He also was named as the NCBWA Division III Hitter of the Week on April 8 when he had 12 base hits in 18 at-bats (.667 batting average) with 11 RBI. For his career, Gugliotta is a .394 hitter (76-for-193) with 45 runs scored, nine doubles, two triples, 55 RBI and 12 steals.
Green had his best season as a Yellow Jacket as he hit .361 (43-for-119) in 36 games and 33 starts to rank third on the team. He also scored 21 runs and had eight doubles, three triples, one homer, 29 RBI and four stolen bases as he alternated between playing RF and DH. After two seasons in the Brown & Gold, Green is batting .331 (57-for-172) with 31 runs scored, 11 doubles, five triples, one homer, 43 RBI and six steals.
Havens was the ace of the pitching staff for the third straight year. He earned All-OAC honors for the second straight season and was an OAC Pitcher of the Week awardee for the third time in his career. This season, Havens pitched in 12 games, including 11 starts, with three complete games and a shutout, and had a 7-4 record and his first career save. He pitched a team-leading 67 innings, allowed 60 hits, 42 runs (33 earned), led the team with 53 strikeouts and walked 36 batters. His 12 starts this season set a single-season school-record.
For his career, Havens, who also earned ABCA (American Baseball Coaches Association) All-Mideast Region honors as a junior, pitched in 39 career games, including 30 starts, with eight complete games and five shutouts. He had a 19-10 record with one save and a 4.09 earned run average and 155 strikeouts in 184 and two-third innings pitched. His 19 victories rank fourth all-time.
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