STANDISH, ME – The 2010 ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Division III All-America Teams have been announced and Saint Joseph's College outfielder Todd Keneborus '11 (Hollis Center, ME/Cheverus) has received Third Team honors.
Keneborus, who was named as a D3baseball.com Third Team All-American earlier this week, is the second player in SJC Baseball history to receive ABCA/Rawlings All-America honors and the 10th to be named All-American. Left-handed pitcher Charlie Furbush (South Portland, ME), a Second Team honoree in 2006, was the first Monk to receive ABCA/Rawlings All-America honors. Nine St. Joe's players accounted for 13 NAIA All-America accolades between the 1985 and 2001 campaigns.
Keneborus has received a multitude of honors after posting one of the finest offensive seasons in team history. Earlier this spring he was named as the 2010 GNAC Player of the Year and has earned All-Conference First Team, First Team All-NEIBA, and NCAA DIII New England Regional All-Tournament honors after leading the team, and conference, in virtually all offensive categories.
As the only St. Joe's player to compete in all 48 games, Keneborus led the Royal Blue in batting average (.464, 77-166), at-bats (166), hits (77), doubles (15), triples (13), RBI (65), slugging (.783) and on-base percentage (.536). He registered a program-record 27 multiple-hit games, knocked home at least two runs in 14 different contests and was held hitless in just 10 games all season. Keneborus notched nine RBI, a program single-game record, against New Jersey City on March 20th and broke the Monks' single-season (13) and career (19) triples records during his junior year.
For his efforts, Keneborus was named GNAC Player of the Week twice during the season and received National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Hitter of the Week honors on April 15th.
Keneborus also set new conference single-season records for hits and triples, while his base-hit total places him in a tie with Steve Osborne '01, who belted 77 hits in 2001, for the program single-season mark. His 2010 RBI tally is tied for second-highest in team history, while his .536 on-base percentage ranks second, his .464 batting average ranks fourth and his .783 slugging percentage is the seventh-best at St. Joe's.
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.
Keneborus is one of just six players from the New England Region to receive ABCA/Rawlings All-America honors. WNEC first baseman Joe Griglun and Trinity outfielder James Wood were both listed on the Second Team, while two UMass-Boston players, second baseman Ryan Walsh and pitcher James Dalton, along with Tufts reliever Chris DeGoti, joined the SJC standout as Third Team selections.
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.
2010 ABCA/RAWLINGS ALL-AMERICA TEAMS
