STANDISH, Maine – The New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association (NEIBA) postseason accolades have been announced and Saint Joseph's College graduate second baseman Drew Healey (Rochester, N.H.) has earned First Team All-Region 1 honors as well as a spot in the 2022 NEIBA Senior All-Star Game.
The 46th Annual NEIBA Joe Walsh All-Star Game will be played at 12:00 PM on Monday, June 6th at Dunkin Stadium in Hartford, Conn. Prior to first pitch the NEIBA will honor the two Hall of Fame classes and the major award winners. Admission to the game is free.
The postseason awards continue to accumulate for Healey, who recently earned First Team All-Region honors from D3Baseball.com and ABCA/Rawlings and earlier claimed First Team All-Conference honors for the third-consecutive season.
Healey collects his third First Team All-Region honor after hitting .392 (47-120) with 28 runs, 12 doubles, five home runs, 30 RBI and seven stolen bases during the 2022 campaign. He closed out the year as the conference leader in batting average and OBP (.513) while ranking second in slugging percentage (.617) and walks (22), fifth in doubles, sixth in total bases (74), eighth in hits and home runs, and ninth in RBI.
The four-year starter finished his collegiate career hitting .339 (129-380) with 78 runs, 29 doubles, eight home runs, 76 RBI and 16 stolen bases in 140 games. He currently ranks eighth in SJC baseball history in OBP (.470) and is listed among the Monks' all-time leaders in walks (76) and HBP (20).
Healey is the 13th Saint Joseph's player to be chosen to play in the prestigious event, following former teammates Joey Murphy '19, Greg Emanuelson '19 and Josh Partridge '18 as well as Steve Osborne'01, Derek McIntosh '05, Sam Tupper '07, Luke Enman '08, Pat Moran'10, Todd Keneborus '11, Joe Coyne '15, Nic Lops '16, and Taylor Black '17.
He is the only Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) representative and is one of three players hailing from a Maine college or university - along with Maine's Quinn McDaniel (brother of former SJC player Noah) and Jordan Schulefand - to be selected for this year's exhibition contest.
As the top seed in the 2022 GNAC Tournament, the Monks faced #5 Elms College in a quarterfinal contest on Thursday, May 5th and suffered a 4-0 setback at the hands of the upstart Blazers. Facing an uphill battle coming out of the losers' bracket, Saint Joseph's eliminated #2 Anna Maria College and Elms from the tourney with 4-0 and 12-1 victories, respectively, and forced a winner-take-all game by topping #3 Johnson & Wales University, 6-2, in a must-win game on Championship Sunday. Unfortunately, the Monks ran out of steam and fell to JWU in the title bout.
