PRINCETON, N.J. – On Thursday, the Ivy League announced its baseball All-Ivy honorees, recognizing four members of the Big Green.
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Mac Burke capped his senior campaign with a First-Team All-Ivy nod while juniors
Nate Isler and
A.J. DeMastrie along with sophomore
Nate Kugler were named honorable mentions. Additionally, senior
Milo Suarez took home Academic All-Ivy recognition.
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Burke had his most effective season out of the bullpen this year, posting a 2.19 ERA in 20 appearances and 37 innings. He fanned 34, second best among the Big Green relievers, and held opposing batters to a .191 batting average. 13 of those 20 appearances were also scoreless outings.
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Burke first pitched in Ivy play against Penn, fanning three and giving up three runs, only one earned, in 1.2 innings of work. He bounced back to string together three scoreless outings, combining for 4.1 scoreless and hitless vs. Columbia and 1.2 scoreless at Cornell. He also threw three straight scoreless outings across the Brown and Harvard series. In his first appearance vs. the Bears, Burke fanned a career high five in three scoreless innings, earning his team-leading fourth save.
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He closed his senior season with three more impressive outings, pitching five scoreless against Manhattan to earn the win on Senior Weekend. At Yale, Burke combined for three scoreless innings, allowing only one hit.
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Isler also had an impressive season on the mound as the leader of the Big Green's starting rotation. Isler posted a 4.98 ERA in 11 appearances, tossing a team and league leading 65 innings with 80 strikeouts.
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His first Ivy appearance was at Penn, giving up four runs on eight hits in six innings pitched. He followed with a dominant outing in the home opener against Columbia, allowing only two runs on nine hits in 9.2 innings of work. Isler posted a scoreless outing against Brown, earning the win for six innings of four hit baseball.
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The junior fanned a career high 11 in seven innings vs. Princeton, allowing four runs, three earned on six hits. He fanned 11 again in his final outing of the season at Yale, finishing the regular season with 80 total strikeouts, the most in the league.
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DeMastrie earns his second straight All-Ivy honorable mention honor as a mainstay behind the plate for the Big Green. The junior played in 30 games, posting a team-leading .266 batting average. He hit two home runs to rank second on the team while his 14 RBI are fourth best.
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In his first Ivy League series of the year, DeMastrie collected three hits against the Quakers. He followed with a .416 weekend against Columbia, also driving in two RBI. DeMastrie also rode a seven-game hitting streak, spanning from April 11 to May 3. One of DeMastrie's best games offensively was the series finale at Harvard. He went 2-for-3 at the plate with two runs scored, two RBI and a home run.
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DeMastrie also impressed defensively behind the plate for the Big Green, making only two errors for a .992 fielding percentage.
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After missing his first-year due to injury, Kugler moved from a reliever to a starter just in time for Ivy League play. He made his first career start at Penn, allowing one run on four hits in five innings of work. Kugler went on to combine for 12 scoreless innings vs. Columbia and at Cornell, allowing just three hits and fanning seven.
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His outing against the Big Red was his best of the season, as he allowed just one hit through seven scoreless innings. Kugler fanned five at Cornell, Harvard, and against the Manhattan Jaspers, a career high. Kugler finished the season at Yale, allowing three runs on seven hits.
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Kugler finishes the season with a 3.35 ERA in seven starts and six relief appearances across 45.2 innings. He was also tied for the most shutouts on the team with three.
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Finally, Suarez wraps his best season in green by taking home the academic all-ivy accolade. The economics major played in all but one game in his senior campaign, finishing the season with a .264 batting average, just two points shy of the team lead, and led the team with 11 doubles, four home runs, and 20 RBI.
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Suarez's had a four-game hit streak early in the season, before collecting hits against both Penn and Columbia. On the road at Cornell, he opened a five-game hitting streak, starting by going 2-for-3 with three runs scored, two RBI, and a home run against the Big Red.
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He also had multi-RBI games against Brown, drove in a run in each of the games at Harvard, and exploded for two home runs and three RBI in the series opener at Yale.
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Burke, Isler, Kugler, and Suarez each take home their first All-Ivy recognition while DeMastrie earns his second.
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