Daktronics All-Atlantic Region Team

EAST STROUDSBURG - East Stroudsburg University junior pitcher Jeremy Gigliotti has been named to the Daktronics Division II Baseball All-Atlantic Region first team and senior third baseman Mark Angelo is on the second team, it was announced late Wednesday.

Gigliotti (Saylorsburg/Pleasant Valley) is the first ESU pitcher named to an All-Region team since Joel Bennett in 1990 and 1991, while the selection of Angelo (Quakertown/Quakertown) gives the Warriors two All-Region selections for the fourth time this decade.

Both players were named to the All-PSAC East team on Wednesday, Angelo on the first team and Gigliotti on the second team. The Daktronics All-Region teams are selected by the sports information directors of the schools in the Atlantic Region, which includes the PSAC, WVIAC and CIAA.

Gigliotti went 5-2 on the mound with a 2.55 earned run average for the Warriors in 2009, which set the school record with 32 wins. He was second in the PSAC with 68 strikeouts in 60.0 innings, led the conference with 31 strikeouts looking, ranked third with 11 starts, fifth in ERA and sixth in batting average against (.214). He is one of four starting pitchers on the All-Atlantic Region first team, along with Ben Watkins (Pitt-Johnstown), Darin Gorski (Kutztown) and Bret Moyer (West Chester).

The junior left-hander was nearly untouchable over the final month of the season, going 31.2 innings without allowing an earned run, including a stretch of 21 consecutive innings in which he was unscored upon. He didn't allow an earned run in six of his 11 starts this season and had eight or more strikeouts in four games.

Gigliotti had a 1.62 ERA in his six PSAC East starts, including his first career shutout against Millersville, and recorded 38 strikeouts, 12 walks and gave up 27 hits (.199 batting average against) in 39.0 innings.

His 68 strikeouts in 2009 are third in school history behind Bennett, who struck out 77 batters as a sophomore and 100 as a junior before going on to a nine-year career in professional baseball, including two years in the major leagues. Gigliotti will enter his senior year with a 10-8 record and 142 strikeouts in 136.2 innings.

Angelo finished his only season at ESU with five school records and was in the top five in the PSAC in eight offensive categories. A three-year letterwinner and second team All-Patriot League first baseman as a senior at Bucknell, Angelo enrolled at ESU as a graduate student in education and made the transition to third base, where he started 38 games and hit third in the lineup in all 53 of his starts.

He set or tied school records for hits, doubles, home runs, extra-base hits and total bases. His 136 total bases were second in the PSAC during the regular season, he ranked third in hits (77), doubles (21), home runs (12) and runs batted in (58), was fourth in slugging percentage (.743) and fifth in batting average (.421) and runs scored (57).

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 scored 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.