STANDISH, ME – Saint Joseph's junior outfielder Todd Keneborus (Hollis Center, ME/Cheverus) has been named D3baseball.com Third Team All-American.
Keneborus, the 2010 GNAC Player of the Year, notched a breakout campaign with career-high offensive numbers across the board. He led the team in batting average (.464, 77-166), at-bats (166), hits (77), doubles (15), triples (13), RBI (65), slugging (.783) and on-base percentage (.536) while playing a solid right field defensively for the Monks. The third-year slugger also led the conference in batting, slugging, hits, RBI, doubles, triples and total bases (130) and capped the 2010 season ranked second in all of NCAA DIII Baseball with 13 three-base hits.
In 2010, Keneborus set new Great Northeast Athletic Conference season records for hits and triples and also broke the team records for single-season and career (19) three-baggers as a junior. He is the second player in team history to collect D3baseball.com All-America honors, as Luke Enman '08 was selected as a Second Team honoree in 2006. Pat Moran '10 (Winterport, ME) and Ian Lee '11 (Hampden, ME) were both selected as Honorable Mention All-Americans last spring.
His 2010 offensive totals rank high in the SJC Baseball record book as well. He tied the single-season mark for hits with SJC Hall of Famer Steve Osborne '01, while his RBI tally is tied for second with another St. Joe's all-time great, Jesse LaCasse '03. His 2010 on-base percentage ranks second, his .464 batting average ranks fourth and his .783 slugging percentage is the seventh-highest in team history. His total bases mark is the second-best, behind Osborne's 165 in 2001, while his extra-base hits tally (32) is the third-most in a campaign at St. Joe's behind Osborne (40, 2001) and LaCasse (34, 2002).
Keneborus entered the NCAA DIII New England Regional hitting .456 and actually raised his average to .464 with a 10-19 (.526) effort in the Monks' five games during the double-elimination tourney. He registered four multiple-hit efforts, including a 3-3 effort against WNEC, at the regional. For his efforts, he garnered All-Tournament honors along with teammate Ben Grant-Roy '10 (Biddeford, ME).
Keneborus is one of just six players from the New England Region to receive D3baseball.com All-America honors. Tufts reliever Chris DeGoti was selected as a First Team honoree, while UMass-Boston second baseman Ryan Walsh, Curry outfielder Tim Sweeney and Wheaton pitchers Nolan Corr and Jon Shepard joined Keneborus as Third Team selections.
Suffolk senior southpaw Marc Doyle earned Honorable Mention honors as did Williams outfielder Al Mathews, who played with Keneborus as a member of the Sanford Bonanza in the Twilight League during the summer of 2007.
St. Joe's capped the 2010 campaign with a 35-13 record, with the win-count ranking as the second most in team history behind the 2001 club (38-6), with eight of the 13 setbacks coming by just one run. The Monks won three games in the NCAA New England Regional, including a 9-7 triumph over #14 Wheaton, and were one of three teams, along with top-seeded Tufts and eventual Champion UMass-Boston, to advance to championship Saturday. For the Monks, the trip to the NCAA Regional Tournament was the fourth in the last five seasons.
Saint Joseph's posted an 11-3 record in GNAC play during the 2010 campaign and topped Suffolk, 5-4, in the conference championship on May 2nd en route to collecting the program's second conference crown in three seasons as a league member.
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