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Bryant’s historic regular season resulted in an unprecedented number of awards at the annual NEC Baseball BBQ.

The Bulldogs’ Northeast Conference-record 44 regular season wins resulted in the nation’s No. 21-ranked squad earning all four major individual league honors while placing 11 players on the All-NEC Conference Teams.

In a history that dates back to 1993, Bryant becomes the first team ever to sweep all four major awards in the same season.

Bryant first baseman Robby Rinn (Warwick, RI) becomes the second Bulldog to earn the NEC Player of the Year nod, joining former Chicago Cubs’ draft pick Kevin Brown who nabbed the honor in 2013.

Bryant sophomore starter James Karinchak (Walden, NY) followed up his 2015 NEC Rookie of the Year award by earning the NEC Pitcher of the Year accolade this spring.

For the fifth season in a row, the NEC Rookie of the Year honor is heading to Smithfield, RI. This time, Bryant freshman outfielder Nick Angelini (Bedford, NH) is the recipient.

Meanwhile, Bryant skipper Steve Owens secured his fourth NEC Coach of the Year accolade after leading the Bulldogs to their third 40-win season in the last four years.

Rinn was a doubles and RBI machine for the NEC’s top-ranked offense. En-route to winning the regular season conference batting crown (.380), the left-handed hitting infielder posted NEC highs in hits (81), doubles (24) and RBI (57). Named to the All-NEC First Team for the third consecutive season, the veteran first baseman slugged a league-high .601. Rinn leads the Bulldogs with 25 multi-hit games and is currently working on a 50-game on-base streak, which is one of the longest in the country. His 24 doubles are tied for the most in a single season in program history. Rinn was raking since season’s start. Helping the Bulldogs to six wins in their first seven games, he was sensational at the tony Gwynn Classic. Batting .667, he powered Bryant to wins over San Diego State and then-No. 22 Kentucky.

Karinchak paced the NEC in victories (11), innings pitched (81.1) and strikeouts (97). The 6-foot-2 Empire State product followed up his eight-win freshman campaign by shaving more than one run off his ERA, lowering it to 2.21. That mark was the lowest amongst NEC hurlers who made at least 10 starts. Karinchak, who held opposing hitters to a .215 batting average, set Bryant’s single-season record for Ks and did not allow a home run the entire spring. Karinchak tied Bryant’s single-game DI program record with 13 strikeouts in just 6.0 innings at Atlantic 10 member George Mason. He is only the second pitcher in Bryant's DI history to win 10 games in a season, joining Craig Schlitter (2013 and 2014). In eight NEC starts, he went 7-1 and pitched to a 1.72 ERA this spring.

Angelini played his way into a starting role in Bryant’s outfield, making 42 starts and producing the fourth highest batting average (.354) on the NEC leader board. The Granite State product scored 43 runs, tied for fifth most on the circuit. Angelini, who also earned a spot in the All-NEC First Team outfield, won the NEC Rookie of the Week award on four occasions. He accounted for a .467 on-base percentage while totaling 52 hits in 48 appearances. Angelini belted his first collegiate home run, a three-run bomb off the fair pole, in a win over SEC member Kentucky at the Tony Gwynn Classic.

Owens has solidified Bryant as a powerhouse program in the northeast region with the 2016 campaign being the Bulldogs’ best yet. The Black and Gold enters the four-team, double-elimination NEC Tournament, the winner of which will receive an automatic bid into the NCAA Championship field, riding a seven-game win streak. Their 44 wins are the second-most victories of any team in the country and their latest RPI rank was a league-high 33 out of 300 Division I teams. Arguably even more impressive is Bryant's +253 run differential over 54 games. The Bulldogs' +4.7 runs per game scoring margin ranks first amongst all NCAA Division I teams.