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EAST STROUDSBURG - Mark Angelo is the second East Stroudsburg University baseball player to be named an All-American in school history after earning third team honors from the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA).

Angelo (Quakertown/Quakertown), a first team Atlantic Region selection at third base, is on the ABCA All-America team as an infielder after starting 38 games at third and 11 at first base during the 2009 season.

He joins Jeff Pfeiffer, a third team third baseman in 1985, as the only All-Americans in the history of the ESU baseball program.

Angelo ranked in the top five in the PSAC in eight offensive categories in the regular season and set or tied five school records during his only season for the Warriors. He was a three-year letterwinner at Bucknell and an All-Patriot League first baseman in 2008 before enrolling in graduate school in Mathematics and Secondary Education at ESU.

He hit .421 with 12 home runs, 21 doubles, 58 runs batted in and 57 runs scored while hitting in the third spot in the order in 53 games for ESU, which set the school record with 32 wins.

Angelo set the single season record with 136 total bases and shares four other records for the Warriors. He shares records for home runs (12) and extra-base hits (34) with teammate Kevin Thompson and doubles (21) with teammate Chris Zsenak, and his 77 hits are tied with Brett Reynolds total in 2000. His batting average is tied for fourth at ESU and he is third in slugging percentage (.743), tied for eighth in on-base percentage (.481), tied for second in RBI and third in runs scored.

Angelo was the PSAC East Player of the Week twice in the final three weeks of the season following the Warriors' series with Millersville and Mansfield. He hit .522 (12-for-23) with two home runs and 10 RBI the week ending April 13, and was 9-for-12 with five home runs, nine RBI and nine runs in four games against Mansfield to finish the season.

For his four-year college career, Angelo had a .351 batting average with 178 hits, 32 doubles, five triples and 14 home runs and compiled 114 RBI and 109 runs. He hit .316 with a team-high 37 RBI as a senior for Bucknell, which won the Patriot League championship and upset top seed Florida State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Pfeiffer held ESU records for batting average (.440), on-base percentage (.486), slugging percentage (.755), hits (70), home runs (10), extra-base hits (26), total bases (120), runs (48) and runs batted in (47) in 43 games following the 1985 season, all of which have been broken in the last 24 years.

Angelo is one of five PSAC players on the ABCA All-America team, along with outfielder Matt Cotellese (West Chester), outfielder Sam DiMatteo (California), catcher Matt Adams (Slippery Rock) and pitcher Darin Gorski (Kutztown).