Full Listing of All-Conference Teams & Award Winners

Newport News, Va. – (May 21, 2019) – The Atlantic 10 Conference released its 2019 Baseball All-Conference and major winner awards on Tuesday, as voted on by the league's head coaches, ahead of this week's Atlantic 10 Baseball Championship held at Fordham's Houlihan Park.
 
Headlining the award winners is Fordham sophomore pitcher John Stankiewicz (Cherry Hill, N.J.), who was named the Atlantic 10 Pitcher of the Year and First Team All-Atlantic 10.  He is joined on the First Team by junior reliever Kyle Martin (Oceanside, N.Y.), while freshman Jason Coules (Bellmore, N.Y.) was selected to the Atlantic 10 All-Rookie Team.  In addition, junior Billy Godrick (Millersville, Md.) was named to the Atlantic 10 All-Academic team in a vote of the conference's sports information directors.
 
Stankiewicz becomes the second Ram to be named the Atlantic 10 Pitcher of the Year, joining Tom Davis in 2008.  He was named Atlantic 10 Pitcher of the Week three times this season and was among the NCAA leaders in ERA (2^nd – 1.20), WHIP (6^th - 0.84), and strikeout-to-walk ratio (7^th – 7.46).  He finished with a team-high 97 strikeouts in 82.1 innings pitched, registering a 7-3 record in 15 appearances.  The 97 strikeouts is tied for the fourth-highest single season strikeout total in program history with Pete Harnisch (1987) and Brett Kennedy (2015).  In Atlantic 10 play, Stankiewicz was 4-2 with a 1.19 ERA and 58 strikeouts in 53 innings.
 
Martin joins Stankiewicz on the First Team, giving Fordham multiple First Team All-Atlantic 10 selection for just the second time since joining the league.  The previous time was in 2008.  Martin posted nine saves and five victories in 26 appearances out of the bullpen this season, and became Fordham's all-time leader in saves (20).  He finished the regular season with a 2.57 ERA and 53 strikeouts in 35 innings, while giving up just eight walks and a .176 opponent batting average.  He was even better in league action, recording two wins and five saves, to go with a 0.47 ERA and 33 strikeouts in 19.1 innings.
 
Coules earns All-Rookie Team honors, extending Fordham's string of nine straight seasons with at least one player named to the All-Rookie squad.  He was Fordham's top freshman hitter, batting .292 with 19 runs scored, eight doubles, two home runs, 13 RBI, and 15 stolen bases.  In league action, he was one of two players to hit .300 or better for the Rams, scoring ten runs to go with five doubles and eight steals.
 
Godrick picks up his second straight All-Academic accolade as he was named to the team last year.  Recently named to the Google Cloud Academic All-District Team, he holds a 3.91 GPA in Public Accounting and is currently under consideration for Academic All-American honors.  The Rams' starting centerfielder has appeared in 51 games this season, totaling 19 runs, five doubles, two home runs, 12 RBI, and 10 stolen bases.
 
These four players along with the rest of the Fordham baseball team kickoff action at the Atlantic 10 Championship on Wednesday, May 22^nd, as the team, seeded fourth at the championship, play fifth-seeded Richmond at 5:00 PM at Fordham's Houlihan Park.  Tickets for the entire championship can be purchased here.