Eight Polar Bears named Academic All-OAC in Baseball for 2015

May 18, 2015

By Tim Glon

ADA — Eight Ohio Northern student/athletes have been named Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference in baseball for 2015.

Senior Derek Lenardos, juniors Alex Crabtree, Ben Glischinski, Cody Meyer and Cal VonStein and sophomores Zach Foster, Rob Cremeans and Brandyn Reinhart all received the honor.

Award winners must be a sophomore or higher in class standing, maintain varsity status and have a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.50.

Lenardos, a mechanical engineering major from Canal Fulton, played in 72 games in his career with 23 starts in the outfield.

He is now a two-time Academic All-OAC honoree.

This season, he hit .286 and was fourth on the squad with four stolen bases.

Crabtree was also named Second Team All-OAC as a pitcher for the Polar Bears this season and is also making his second appearance on the Academic All-OAC team.

The Clayton native posted a 6-0 record and a 3.20 ERA with 44 strikeouts in 50.2 innings of work this season on the mound.

A mechanical engineering major, he will enter his senior season with a 9-3 record, a 3.12 ERA and 77 strikeouts.

Glischinski is now a two-time Academic All-OAC honoree and has been named All-OAC twice in his career.

This season, the Mainesville native was 1-0 with a 3.74 ERA and 25 strikeouts in 33.2 innings pitched.

He will enter his senior season with a 6-3 record, a 3.20 ERA and 97 strikeouts to his credit.

Glischinski is an accounting major at ONU.

Meyer is also a two-time Academic All-OAC honoree and is a mechanical engineering major from Boynton Beach, Fla.

He played in 19 games with 11 starts in the infield this season and went 9-for-41 at the plate.

In 84 career games, Meyer has a .242 career batting average and a .342 career on base percentage.

Foster posted a 2-0 record with a 0.82 ERA and one save in 11 innings of work out of the bullpen this season.

He is an accounting major from Wayne.

VonStein is a two-time Academic All-OAC honoree and is a pharmacy major from Shelby.

Cremeans is majoring in athletic training major and hails from Amanda and Reinhart is an exercise physiology major from New Riegel.

VonStein, Cremeans and Reinhart did not see varsity action in 2015.

The Polar Bears finished the 2015 season with a 30-9 overall record, finished tied for second in the OAC with a 12-6 mark and were ranked No. 18 nationally under fourth-year head coach Gene Stechschulte.