STANDISH, ME – Former Saint Joseph's College slugger Todd Keneborus '11 (Hollis, Maine/Cheverus) has signed a professional baseball contract with the London Rippers of the Frontier League.

Keneborus hit .399 (213-534) with 141 runs, 40 doubles, 22 triples, 14 home runs, 150 RBI and 20 stolen bases in 162 games over four collegiate campaigns with the Monks. He garnered a pair of All-America accolades following the completion of his junior season and garnered Great Northeast Athletic Conference Player of the Year honors as well as First Team All-New England (NEIBA) mention in both 2010 and 2011.  

Founded in 1993, the Frontier League is the oldest currently-running independent baseball league. Fourteen clubs comprise the league slate with seven teams in both the east and west divisions. Most of the teams hail from the heart of the United States – as eight clubs are located in Illinois while single teams reside in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Missouri and Pennsylvania – but the Rippers call London, Ontario home and host their games at historic Labatt Memorial Park, the oldest continually operating "baseball grounds" in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Formerly dubbed as Tecumseh Park, the stadium seats 5,200 and was voted as "Canada's Favourite Ballpark," according to a contest held by Baseball Canada last fall.  

Frontier League teams play a 96-game regular season schedule, which begins in mid-May and ends in early-September. Four teams, the division winners and the top two remaining teams, regardless of division, advance to the playoffs. Two best-of-five playoff rounds determine the league championship.

Twenty-one players with Frontier League ties have moved on to play at the Major League level, including Seattle reliever George Sherrill, an eight-year MLB veteran and member of the 2008 American League All-Star Team as the closer for the Baltimore Orioles.

Keneborus is the sixth player with SJC ties to ink a professional baseball contract. He is about to join Steve Osborne '01 (Yankees), Jesse LaCasse '03 (Germany), Charlie Furbush (2005-06) (Mariners), Luke Enman '08 (Nashua Pride) and Pat Moran '10 (Pittsfield Colonials) on the list of former Monks who have played at the next level.

Keneborus closed out his career by batting .414 (65-157) with 38 runs, 11 doubles, three triples, five home runs, 40 RBI and four stolen bases in 2011 and paced the Royal Blue in at bats, hits, triples, homers, RBI, total bases (97), slugging (.618), OBP (.497) and walks (20) as a senior last spring.

The Monks' all-time leader in triples, Keneborus left the program ranking third all-time in doubles, slugging (.635) and OPS (1.110), fourth in games played, hits, batting average, OBP (.475), total bases (339) and extra-base hits (76), fifth in at bats and RBI, and sixth in runs scored.

St. Joe's posted a 126-59 (.681) record and won three GNAC Championships with a trio of NCAA DIII National Tournament appearances with Keneborus in the lineup.