Seven Receive All-Ivy Honors; Three on First Team

HANOVER, N.H. — The Ivy League announced its 2016 all-conference baseball teams as voted on by the league's coaches, and a total of seven Dartmouth players were recognized with three making the first team — Duncan Robinson, Thomas Roulis and Patrick Peterson. Another Big Green player earned second-team honors, while three others received honorable mention.

Both the Player and Pitcher of the Year awards were unanimous with Penn catcher Tim Graul, who led the league with a .432 average in Ivy play, and Princeton right-hander Chad Powers, who went 3-1 with a miniscule 0.47 ERA during the conference season, took home the honors, respectively. Penn freshman Matt O'Neill was selected as the Rookie of the Year, and Princeton head coach Scott Bradley was a unanimous choice as Coach of the Year after rebounding from a last-place finish in 2015 to winning the Ivy League Championship Series this year.

Robinson, a 6-6, 220-pound right-handed pitcher from Houston, Texas, received first-team honors for the third straight year. The senior's record in Ivy play was just 2-3, but his 2.36 ERA ranked third in the league while he led the loop with 36 strikeouts while walking just five batters. Overall on the season, the 2015 Ivy League Pitcher of the Year was 4-6 with a 3.28 ERA, leading the league in strikeouts (73), strikeout-to-walk ratio (10.43, fourth among Division I pitchers) and walks issued per nine innings (0.92, eighth nationally). Among his victories was a 1-0, complete-game, four-hit shutout of South Florida, and the co-captain struck out a career-high 12 batters in a 5-4 complete-game victory over Lehigh. Robinson finishes his career with a 17-11 record, 173 strikeouts and a 3.07 ERA, the last statistic being the second-lowest figure of the last 40 years at Dartmouth.

After missing the 2015 campaign with an injury, Roulis returned to the field for the Big Green as a senior co-captain and put up some of the best numbers of his career. The 5-10, 195-pound shortstop from New Hyde Park, New York, boasted the fourth-highest average in Ivy League play at .384 and committed just one error in the 20 games for a .984 fielding percentage. For the complete season, the switch-hitter hit .328, good for eighth in the league, with 20 RBIs and just three errors in 37 games. He had received All-Ivy honorable mention two years ago as a second baseman before making the switch to shortstop in his final campaign. For his career, he hit .298 with 23 doubles, nine triples, two homers and 79 RBIs.

Peterson, a sophomore from Glen Ellyn, Illinois, was named to the first team as a relief pitcher for the second time in his young career. The Big Green closer recorded a 1.65 ERA to go with a 2-0 record and three saves and 16 strikeouts in 16.1 innings out of the bullpen in conference play. Opposing Ivy Leaguers hit just .172 against him and did not score a run off of him over his last 12.2 innings on the mound. His overall body of work was just as strong with a 3-0 record and four saves to go with an identical 1.65 ERA, allowing just 18 hits over 32.2 innings (a .165 average) with 28 strikeouts. After two seasons at Dartmouth, the right-hander is 7-0 with 10 saves and a 2.59 ERA spanning 32 outings and 59.0 frames.

Garnering a spot on the second team was freshman Rob Emery at utility player, one of five freshmen to earn All-Ivy recognition. The native of San Francisco, California, hit .341 in league play, good for 10th, while seeing action at catcher and designated hitter in 16 of the 20 games. He contributed four doubles, a triple, a home run and eight RBIs while leading the team with a .545 slugging percentage against the other Ancient Eight schools. His overall stats for the season include a .275 average in 102 at-bats to go with five doubles, two triples and a pair of long balls while driving in 15 runs.

The three Dartmouth players to receive honorable mention were junior first baseman Michael Ketchmark, who hit .294 with 20 RBIs in league play, sophomore second baseman Dustin Shirley thanks to his .405 average in conference games (second only to Graul who won the Blair Bat Award for the highest average) and 32 hits to tie for the Ivy lead, and senior outfielder Nick Ruppert, who earned the honor for the third time in his career after hitting .315 with a team-best .433 on-base percentage in the 20 conference contests.

Conference champion Princeton led all teams with five players on the first team, while Dartmouth and the Tigers each had a league-high seven players listed among the honorees, though Penn had six players earn a total of eight honors (Graul first team at DH, second team at catcher, O'Neill honorable mention at catcher and DH). Since head coach Bob Whalen arrived at Dartmouth prior to the 1990 season, he has had 73 first-team selections; no other Ivy League team has had more than 51 in that time span.

Ivy League Postseason Awards

Player of the Year
*Tim Graul, Jr., C/DH, Penn

Pitcher of the Year
*Chad Powers, Jr., SP, Princeton

Rookie of the Year
Matt O'Neill, Fr., C/DH, Penn

Coach of the Year
*Scott Bradley, Princeton

Blair Bat Award
Tim Graul, Jr., C/DH, Penn

First Team			Second Team			Honorable Mention
SP	Duncan Robinson, Sr.	Dartmouth	SP	Christian Taugner, Jr.	Brown	SP	Mike Reitcheck, Jr.	Penn
SP	*Chad Powers, Jr.	Princeton	SP	Nick Gruener, Jr.	Harvard	C	Josh Ellis, Jr.	Harvard
SP	Scott Politz, Fr.	Yale	SP	Gabe Kleiman, Jr.	Penn	C	Matt O'Neill, Fr.	Penn
RP	Dante Bosnic, So.	Brown	SP	Keelan Smithers, Jr.	Princeton	C	Andrew Herrera, Jr.	Yale
RP	Patrick Peterson, So.	Dartmouth	RP	Harrison Egly, So.	Columbia	1B	Michael Ketchmark, Jr.	Dartmouth
C	Josh Huntley, Sr.	Brown	RP	Michael Byrne, Sr.	Cornell	1B	Cole Rutherford, Jr.	Cornell
1B	Zak Belski, Jr.	Princeton	C	Tim Graul, Jr.	Penn	2B	Dustin Shirley, So.	Dartmouth
2B	Danny Hoy, Sr.	Princeton	1B	Nick Maguire, Sr.	Columbia	3B	John Fallon, So.	Harvard
SS	Thomas Roulis, Sr.	Dartmouth	2B	Will Savage, Jr.	Columbia	OF	Dale Wickham, So.	Cornell
3B	Billy Arendt, Sr.	Princeton	SS	Ryan Mincher, Sr.	Penn	OF	Nick Ruppert, Sr.	Dartmouth
OF	Robb Paller, Sr.	Columbia	3B	Richard Slenker, Jr.	Yale	OF	Tim Degraw, Fr.	Yale
OF	Gary Tesch, Sr.	Penn	OF	Jake Levine, Sr.	Brown	UT	C.J. Price, Jr.	Cornell
OF	Jesper Horsted, Fr.	Princeton	OF	Nick Hernandez, Jr.	Princeton	DH	Matt Rothenberg, So.	Harvard
UT	Randell Kanemaru, So.	Columbia	OF	Nate Adams, Sr.	Yale	DH	Matt O'Neill, Fr.	Penn
DH	Tim Graul, Jr.	Penn	UT	Rob Emery, Fr.	Dartmouth
			DH	Harrison White, Jr.	Yale	*unanimous selection

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