CoSIDA Academic All-America Division III Baseball Team
BALTIMORE, MD – Johns Hopkins graduate student Jake Enterlin has been named to the 2016 CoSIDA Academic All-America Division III Second Team for Baseball it was announced Wednesday afternoon. He is the 28th Academic All-America selection for the JHU baseball program, which ranks first among all Division III baseball programs and tied for second among all Divisions.
Enterlin earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering last May and completed his master’s degree in the same field this year. He spent the previous two summers interning at Lockheed Martin and is set to begin work at Deloitte in Washington, DC this fall.
A two-time All-Centennial Conference selection, Enterlin posted a 1.64 ERA and a 6-1 record while striking out 27 and walking just four in 44 innings pitched this season. A two-time captain, he finished his career ranked in the top 20 in school history in several career categories, including wins (15th • 21), ERA (3rd • 2.29), strikeouts (8th • 190), innings pitched (12th • 232) and games started (T5th • 36).
AUSTIN, Texas – Recent graduate Luke Lawrence (West Chester, Pa./West Chester East) and rising senior Connor Tom (Reinholds, Pa./Conrad Weiser) have been named to the 2016 Academic All-America Division III Baseball Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Both Lawrence and Tom captured third-team recognition while becoming the 23rd and 24th CoSIDA Academic All-Americans in school history. They are also the third and fourth Bullets in Gettysburg baseball history to pick up the award, joining Joe Bonyai '07 (Second Team, 2007) and Robert Zeberlein '82 (Second Team, 1981).
Lawrence and Tom were two of 33 student-athletes to make the team, which included just three other student-athletes from Pennsylvania and one other player from the Centennial Conference. They captured a spot on the Academic All-America ballot by making the Academic All-District 4 First Team last month.
For Lawrence, the honor adds to an already-impressive cache of postseason awards. Earlier this spring, he was also named the Centennial Conference Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year and received All-Centennial Conference honorable mention as well as Academic All-Centennial Conference recognition.
After serving as a relief pitcher over his first three years with the Bullets, Lawrence – a two-year team captain – made a smooth transition to the outfield. The team's leadoff hitter for much of the season, he started the year on a tear, going 12-for-16 over his first four games. He ended up batting .327 and tied for the team lead in stolen bases (seven). He also scored 34 runs and roped six doubles, two triples, and one home run. Primarily playing centerfield, Lawrence committed just two errors for the season and had one outfield assist.
As a pitcher, Lawrence tied the school record for career saves (six) and was named First Team All-Centennial Conference as a sophomore, when he finished 4-1 with four saves and a 0.27 ERA, yielding just one earned run in 33 innings pitched.
Lawrence was a Health Sciences major and has worked as a summer research scholar and a research assistant at Nemours/Alfred I. Dupont Hospital for Children, conducting pediatric bone density research. During the past season, he has led Gettysburg's "Take ALS Yard" initiative, which has raised over $25,000 for ALS research over the last four seasons.
Tom has made 22 of his 34 starts at designated hitter this season. He has also started 12 games in the outfield – 11 in left, one in right – and hit .275 with 19 RBIs. He cracked six doubles and three triples, and he is tied for second on the team with 14 walks.
In 2015, Tom collected First Team Academic All-District, First Team All-Centennial Conference, and Second Team ABCA All-Region honors after batting .399 to tie for third in the conference. He also tied a 50-year-old school record for doubles in a game (four) and twice tied the school for hits in a game (five).
Off the field, Tom is a biology major who has interned in the Radiology department at Penn State Health St. Joseph, and he has also served as a Medical/Surgical Unit volunteer at St. Joseph Medical Center. In addition, he serves as the Scholarship Chair of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
Gettysburg finished the season 24-17-1 and qualified for the Centennial Conference playoffs for the third time in four years. In addition, the Bullets finished with their fifth-straight 20-win season and set school records for runs (303), doubles (95), triples (tied, 29), RBIs (262), and total bases (672).
To be eligible for CoSIDA Academic All-America consideration, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.3, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director.