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Fairfield, CT -- Senior shortstop Sam Mongelli (Marlboro, N.Y.) of the Sacred Heart University baseball team has been named to the Collegiate Baseball All-America Second Team, as announced on Thursday morning. Mongelli – who ranks among the top 50 in the country in numerous offensive categories – is the program's first All-American in the Division I era (since 1999) and the first Pioneer in more than 30 years to earn All-America plaudits at any level.
 
Over 55 games this spring, Mongelli posted a slash line of .402/.495/.743, which was good for a 1.238 OPS over 241 at-bats (97-for-241), en route to NEC Player of the Year honors. He currently leads the Northeast Conference in on-base percentage, slugging percentage and OPS, in addition to runs scored (81), hits (97), home runs (20) and total bases (179). The 81 runs scored are a new NEC single-season record, while the 20 home runs tied the conference's high-water mark.
 
Nationally, Mongelli ranks second in runs per game (1.47), third in runs, third in hits per game (1.76), fifth in total bases and sixth in hits. He is also ranked in the top 50 in the country in batting average, home runs, home runs per game (0.36), on-base percentage and slugging percentage. In addition, he was a key cog in the middle-infield defense for a SHU team which is 19^th in the country in double plays (49).
 
Much as he was the first Pioneer to be named NEC Player of the Year, Mongelli is the first player from the program to earn All-America honors in the Division I era. SHU boasts four All-America selections from its Division II days, most recently Jerry Fry in 1992.
 
Mongelli rewrote the SHU record books this spring, as he established new program single-season records for hits, home runs, runs scored and total bases.
 
Sacred Heart (28-30, 17-13 NEC) was picked to finish eighth in the NEC, but finished fourth instead, and made a run to the semifinal round of the NEC Championship.