Staten Island, NY – The awards and accolades continue to pour in for Wagner baseball's senior catcher/infielder Nick Dini (Monroe Township, NJ/Monroe Township) as he was named to the 2015 American Baseball Coaches of America (ABCA) Northeast All-Region First Team.
 
In addition, the Monroe Township native was selected by the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) All-Star First-Team for his sensational play this past season in leading the Seahawks to its second-straight Northeast Conference (NEC) Tournament appearance. 
 
Dini is fresh off a dominant senior season where he became Wagner's first-ever Northeast Conference (NEC) Player of the Year. A First-Team All-NEC selection for the second straight year, after winning the league batting title with a .400 regular season average, the 5-9, 190-pound Dini was also named to the prestigious Louisville Slugger NCAA Division I All-American Third Team, as announced by the Collegiate Baseball newspaper.
 
The two-time Johnny Bench Award Watch List nominee finished the 2015 NEC regular season with an even .400 batting average, becoming just the second Seahawk to lead the circuit in hitting and first since 1993 when Jack Scholz claimed the batting title with a .418 average. 
 
On May 9 in the first game of a doubleheader vs. eventual NEC Tournament champion Sacred Heart, Dini smashed a two-run home run over the left-field wall at the Ballpark at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, CT that propelled him to the no. 1 spot on Wagner's all-time career hits list. The veteran backstop finished his career with 245 hits, in addition to becoming the program's all-time leader in at-bats (793), games played (215), and games started (215).
 
On Wednesday afternoon, Dini became fourth-year head coach Jim Carone's 20th player drafted and sixth under his tutelage at Wagner when the Kansas City Royals selected versatile Dini in the 14th round (429 overall).
 
The American Baseball Coaches Association has released the 2015 ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Div. I All-Region teams. The teams are voted on by members of the American Baseball Coaches Association and the process is led by the ABCA NCAA Div. I All-America Committee. All-Region first-team selections are eligible for ABCA/Rawlings All-America honors.
 

Northeast-ABCA/Rawlings All-Region Teams
NCAA Div. I Northeast All-Region First Team
Pos.	Player	Cl.	School	State
C	Nick Dini	Sr.	Wagner	NY
1B	Connor Panas	Sr.	Canisius	NY
2B	Vinny Siena	Jr.	Connecticut	CT
3B	David Vandercook	Sr.	Columbia	NY
SS	Zack Short	So.	Sacred Heart	CT
OF	Brett Siddall	Jr.	Canisius	NY
OF	Jack Parenty	Jr.	Stony Brook	NY
OF	Chris Shaw	Jr.	Boston College	MA
DH	Joey Falcone	Sr.	Columbia	NY
P	Carson Cross	Sr.	Connecticut	CT
P	Ryan McCormick	Jr.	St. John's	NY
P	Alex Robinett	Sr.	Army	NY
RP	Tom Hackimer	Jr.	St. John's	NY
NCAA Div. I Northeast All-Region Second Team
Pos.	Player	Cl.	School	State
C	Ethan Ferreira	Sr.	Harvard	MA
1B	Vincent Guglietti	Sr.	Quinnipiac	CT
2B	Cole Fabio	So.	Bryant	RI
3B	Louis Mele	So.	NYIT	NY
SS	Danny Mendick	Sr.	UMass Lowell	MA
OF	Alex Caruso	Jr.	St. John's	NY
OF	Blake Davey	Sr.	Connecticut	CT
OF	Gus Craig	Sr.	Columbia	NY
DH	Joe DeRoche-Duffin	Jr.	Connecticut	CT
P	Anthony Kay	So.	Connecticut	CT
P	Mariano Rivera	Sr.	Iona	NY
P	Tyler Wilson	Fr.	Rhode Island	RI
RP	Matt Quintana	Sr.	Siena	NY