Six Polar Bears named Academic All-OAC in Baseball for 2016
By Caleb Scott
ADA -- Six Ohio Northern baseball players have been named Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference for the 2016 season.
Seniors Alex Crabtree, Ben Glischinski, Ben Eckert and Cody Meyer, junior Zach Foster and sophomore Brandon Kasberg 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.
Crabtree, a Mechanical Engineering major from Clayton, earned his third Academic All-OAC honor.
Crabtree appeared in six games this season as a pitcher and threw 30 strikeouts with a 2.22 ERA.
Crabtree ends his career with 12 victories and a 2.91 ERA.
Glischinski garnered his third Academic All-OAC award.
The accounting major from Maineville ranked second on the team with 48 strikeouts and led the pitching staff with 10.71 strikeouts per game.
Glishinski has appeared in 38 career games and has nine victories.
Eckert is a Mechanical Engineering major from Hilliard.
This is his first Academic All-OAC honor.
He appeared in 12 games this season, while posting 21 strikeouts and a 2.92 ERA.
Eckert has won six career games in 30 appearances on the mound.
Meyer, a Mechanical Engineering major from Boynton Beach, Florida, earned his third Academic All-OAC accolade.
In 19 appearances at the plate this season, he went 13-for-52 at the plate.
In 246 at bats, Meyer has 60 career hits and a .244 career batting average.
Foster is an accounting major from Wayne, and earns his second Academic All-OAC honor.
Foster made nine appearances on the plate this season and struck out eight batters.
He will enter his senior season with a 2-0 record and 17 strikeouts on the mound.
Kasberg, a Pharmacy major from Mentor was named Academic All-OAC for the first time in his career.
He appeared in 35 games with 35 starts at the short stop position and ranked fifth on the team with 28 hits.
The sophomore also ranked third on the team with 22 runs scored.
Northern finished the 2016 season 21-16 overall and finished fifth in the conference with a 9-9 record under fifth-year head coach Gene Stechschulte.