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EAST STROUDSBURG - Third baseman Mark Angelo and outfielder Kevin Thompson, who combined to set seven single season school records, are among six East Stroudsburg University baseball players selected to the 2009 All-PSAC East team, it was announced Wednesday.

Angelo (Quakertown/Quakertown) and Thompson (Bangor/Bangor) are both members of the first team, while senior outfielder Mike Bortz (Wind Gap/Pen Argyl), junior designated hitter John Pisker (Oley/Oley Valley), junior starting pitcher Jeremy Gigliotti (Saylorsburg/Pleasant Valley) and junior relief pitcher Christian Saveri (Bethlehem/Bethlehem Catholic) were all named to the second team.

ESU, which set a school record with 32 wins, trails only PSAC champion West Chester in the number of players named to the All-PSAC East team. The Golden Rams had 10 players, eight on the first team, followed by six from ESU and four from Kutztown.

The Warriors' pair of first team selections took different paths to producing two of the top offensive seasons in school history for a team that scored 426 runs, the 11th-most in the history of the PSAC. Angelo came to ESU as a graduate student after earning three letters at Bucknell, where he was a second team All-Patriot League first baseman in 2008. Thompson was a fifth year senior for the Warriors after missing the 2007 season due to injury, but returned to set five career records by the end of his senior year.

Angelo hit .421, tied for fourth in school history, and set or tied school records with 77 hits, 21 doubles, 12 home runs, 34 extra-base hits and 136 total bases. He had a .481 on-base percentage and .743 slugging percentage, collected 58 RBI and scored 57 runs in 53 games, which included 38 starts at third base after moving across the diamond from first early in the season.

He led the PSAC with nine home runs, 68 total bases and an .850 slugging percentage in conference games and was in the top five in the PSAC in eight categories at the end of the regular season. He was the PSAC East Player of the Week twice in the last three weeks of the season and went 9-for-12 with five home runs against Mansfield in the final four games of his career.

Thompson tied ESU's career records with 17 home runs and 44 doubles and set new marks for extra-base hits (66), runs batted in (124) and hit by pitches (33). As a senior, he hit .401 and was in the top 10 in the PSAC in 10 categories, the most of any player at ESU.

He finished the year tied with Angelo with 12 home runs and 34 extra-base hits, established a new record for slugging percentage (.766) and had a .500 on-base percentage, the second-highest ever at ESU. He scored 56 runs and had 51 RBI from the No. 5 spot in the order, where he started all 54 games as the right fielder. Thompson played in 188 games, the most in school history.

The Warriors' second team selections are led by Gigliotti, who had a 1.62 earned run average with 38 strikeouts and 12 walks in 39.0 innings in his six PSAC East starts while limiting his opponents to a .199 batting average. The left-hander went 31.2 consecutive innings without allowing an earned run, including 21 straight scoreless innings, which featured his first career shutout against Millersville (7.0 IP, 5 hits, 6 strikeouts) and a nine-inning outing against Shippensburg in which he gave up just three hits.

Gigliotti's 68 strikeouts in 60.0 innings this season were second in the PSAC and the third-most at ESU, behind seasons of 100 and 77 strikeouts by future major leaguer Joel Bennett in 1991 and 1990. He led the conference with 31 strikeouts looking and had a 5-2 record with a 2.55 ERA. He ranked third in the PSAC with 11 starts, fifth in ERA and sixth in batting average against (.214).

Saveri had an outstanding season out of the bullpen, setting the school record and leading the PSAC with 22 appearances while posting a 3.24 ERA with five wins and four saves in 50.0 innings. He recorded 57 strikeouts and just nine walks for the year, made three PSAC East starts and pitched in 14 of the Warriors' 24 conference games. He got more than three outs in 12 of his 19 relief appearances and had a career-high 10 strikeouts while allowing three hits in six innings in his weekend start against Bloomsburg.

Bortz was a first team All-PSAC East outfielder as a junior and finishes his two-year career at ESU on the conference's second team. He started 89 games in center field over the last two years and had a .599 career slugging percentage, third in school history. He hit seven home runs both seasons to rank fifth in career homers.

He was third in the PSAC in both runs (59) and RBI (58) as a senior and led the PSAC with 228 plate appearances during the regular season. Bortz led the Warriors to a 19-8 record after he moved to the leadoff spot and put up a .346 batting average, .447 on-base percentage and .582 slugging percentage, pounded 20 doubles to go with his seven home runs and stole 17 bases.

Pisker emerged as one of the top hitters in the PSAC as a junior after seeing his first two years at ESU shortened by injury. He posted a .407 batting average and .478 on-base percentage while hitting sixth in the lineup, where his presence and 13 multi-hit games allowed ESU to score 10 or more runs in 16 of his 39 starts. He hit well over .400 for the entire season and was as high as .477 in late March before ending the year with one of the seven .400 seasons at ESU since 1985.